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On 14 June 2017, at 12.54 am, residents on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West estate in North Kensington, London were awoken by their neighbour shouting and banging on doors, and the first calls to 999 were recorded. There was fire and smoke coming from the flat, and the owner had … [Read more…]

As the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) makes further advances in its struggle to rid the country of the Daesh and Al Nusra terror gangs, US imperialism is trying every crooked stratagem to defraud the Syrian people of the full fruits of their liberation. But nothing can hide the fact that it is imperialism and all … [Read more…]

Red Youth and CPGB-ML were out in force on 30 June to support the strikes of the Birmingham bin men over pay and cuts to services. Birmingham City Council was once the single biggest local authority in Europe, but a workforce of 20,000 has been slashed in half and the plans which are being implemented … [Read more…]

 Crisis breeds chaos To make sense of this election, the first thing that has to be understood is the context: the deep capitalist crisis of overproduction is creating conditions of chaos and uncertainty in all spheres of life. As in all the other capitalist countries of the world, the ruling class is thoroughly divided over … [Read more…]

The French presidential election in May, won by Emmanuel Macron at the head of a freshly-minted political party, La République en Marche (REM), was followed up in June with elections to the Assemblée Nationale, the French parliament, in which REM won a clear majority of the seats: “…the President’s party … won 43 per cent … [Read more…]

The bourgeois media have been full of outraged indignation about the fact that the government of Venezuela is now proposing to ask a National Constituent Assembly to draw up a new Constitution for Venezuela. All of a sudden various bourgeois mouthpieces have discovered that Chavez’s 1999 Constitution was the best and most democratic in the … [Read more…]

Throughout his election campaign, and even on the day of his Presidential inauguration, Donald Trump was publicly at war with much of the bourgeois press and the US ‘security’ services. As late as 2015 it would have been unthinkable to suggest that an elected US President would, on the day of officially taking office and … [Read more…]

Submitted to the British Cabinet, August 1917   On the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, the 69th Anniversary of the Nakba – the tragedy of the creation of the Zionist state of Israel and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, and the 50th anniversary of the brutal Israeli occupation of the West Bank … [Read more…]

Nazi-Zionist collaboration Claims of Nazi-Zionist collaboration are not anti-semitic fantasies, as Zionists will have everyone believe. They are based on historical facts and material long accepted as an integral part of serious literature on this question, and which has been legally available in the state of Israel. Crucially, most of the English language literature on … [Read more…]

A recent article in The Times throws an interesting light on the British state’s approach to ‘fighting terrorism’ (David Brown and Richard Spencer, ‘Terror chief Ismail Kamoka works for Libyan embassy’, Times, 24 June 2017). After Libya had been reduced to rubble by NATO and its leader had been tortured and murdered by Islamist terror … [Read more…]