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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history, said Marx [In The Class Struggles in France]. Revolutions are the festivals of the oppressed and the exploited. At no other time are the masses of the people in a position to come forward so actively as creators of a new social order as at a time of revolution” … [Read more…]

The Korean Lawyers Committee released a white paper on Thursday 16 March on the above question. We reproduce immediately below the parts of the white paper which relate to the resolutions which impose sanctions on the DPRK In recent years, the United States and its followers continue to manipulate ‘resolutions on sanctions’ against the DPRK … [Read more…]

The ‘Democratic People’s Republic’ in ‘DPRK’ is often laughed at by reactionaries and ‘left’ liberals who compare it to the ‘Socialism’ in ‘National Socialism’. However, the DPRK has a complicated and advanced democratic structure, at all levels, and its citizens have access to a level of democracy not seen in the so called ‘free’ nations … [Read more…]

Britain, long-time home of multinationals that extract superprofits from the oppressed countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America that are largely defenceless against the monopolist vultures, is now itself witnessing them feeding off its corpus. The Times of 22 April 2017 has two hair-raising stories about what these bloodsuckers are up to. The first concerns … [Read more…]

The threat of further strike action by the RMT in its long-running dispute with Southern Rail over the planned extension of driver only operation (DOO), originally planned for 4 April, had the salutary effect of forcing management to renew talks on that day. However, continued pig-headedness on the part of management made it necessary for … [Read more…]

On 18 April Premier Theresa May made the ‘shock’ announcement outside of 10 Downing Street that there will be a general election in this country on 8 June. After months of denying that there would be an election before 2020, she claims that a walking holiday with her husband cleared her mind and made her … [Read more…]

On 20 January 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America. In his inaugural address, far from jettisoning his campaign rhetoric, he stuck to it with a ferocity that surprised his opponents and supporters alike. In the words of the New York Times, Mr Trump’s inaugural address … [Read more…]

Over the past few years a new London wide policy has emerged of building new, mainly private housing on the sites of demolished council estates. Extravagant promises are usually made about providing replacement numbers of new high quality social housing on these sites but these generally turn out to be lies. Working class people in … [Read more…]

Since April 2016 the RMT, the railway guards’ union, has been struggling to hold the line against attempts by Southern Rail, subsidiary of Govia Thameslink (GTR), to universalise the practice of ‘driver only operation’ (DOO). Under this system, guards are stripped of all their operational responsibilities, including responsibility for seeing that all doors are safely … [Read more…]

Troubles in the Labour Party Historically it is the Tories who have torn themselves apart over Europe. Today it is the Labour Party which does so. Whilst Ken Clarke was the only Tory MP to vote against the government’s Article 50 bill, 52 Labour MP’s defied the party whip in voting against the bill. These … [Read more…]