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At the beginning of April, US President Trump made the startling announcement that: “If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will,” arrogantly adding: “China will either decide to help us with North Korea, or they won’t. And if they do, that will be very good for China, and if they don’t it … [Read more…]

On 7 April the United States, in flagrant breach of international law, launched an unprovoked attack against the Shayrat airbase in the Syrian province of Homs. The assault took the form of a barrage of 59 Tomahawk missiles against an airfield that has served as the base for many successful strikes against Daesh targets, making … [Read more…]

Unilever, the Rotterdam-based multi-national consumer goods company, recently fended off a hostile bid from Kraft Heinz. Alarmed, the market wiped 7% off Unilever’s share price, prompting management to start rumbling ominously about the need for “a comprehensive review of options available to accelerate delivery of value for the benefit of our shareholders”. The GMB union … [Read more…]

Despite a dispute over the validity of a large number of ballot papers, Turkish President Erdoğan scored a very slim victory in the April referendum. With a high turnout (about 80%) the number of votes backing a ‘yes’ approximated to 51%. Erdoğan now has the nod for a raft of constitutional changes, the general thrust … [Read more…]

A report from City leeches PwC, suggests that over ten million British workers will find themselves replaced by robots in the next 15 years, with 30% of jobs under threat from strides in artificial intelligence. The wholesale and retail sector could lose 2.25 million jobs, along with 1.2 million in manufacturing and 950,000 in transport … [Read more…]

Fidel Castro once referred to the Organisation of American States (OAS) as the US’s Ministry of Colonies, and indeed its entire history is one of abject submission to US imperialism and promoter of US imperialist interests throughout Latin America. It is now being used to spearhead a propaganda assault on Venezuela which is only too … [Read more…]

Having trashed the economies of former socialist Eastern Europe, big business is everywhere taking maximum advantage of the opportunity to super-exploit the resulting flood of impoverished itinerant workers across Western Europe. A recent BBC report highlighted one such scandal involving IKEA’s supply chain, reporting that although “EU rules state that a driver posted temporarily away … [Read more…]

On 2 April 2017 Lenin Moreno, the candidate endorsed by outgoing president Rafael Correa, was announced to be the winner of the Ecuadorean Presidential election by a narrow majority of some 200,000 votes – 51.1% to 48.9%, a narrow victory to be sure, but a victory nonetheless – all the sweeter for the fact that … [Read more…]

As the Kiev junta remains obdurate in its refusal to implement the Minsk Accords of February 2015 to which it was a signatory along with the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, Ukraine spirals deeper into self-inflicted economic and social chaos. At Minsk all parties agreed to ceasefire arrangements, local elections and negotiations around some … [Read more…]

Question 1: Did you give an order to strike Khan Sheikhun with chemical weapons last Tuesday? President Assad: Actually, no one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikhun till the moment. As you know, Khan Sheikhun is under the control of Al-Nusra Front, which is a branch of Al-Qaeda, so the only information … [Read more…]