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Stan Hilton, the last surviving Briton who fought in the legendary International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, died today [Friday 21 October 2016] in Australia, aged 98. Stan was a 19-year-old merchant seaman when he jumped ship in the port of Alicante in November 1937. ‘The Spanish people needed help,’ he later explained. ‘It … [Read more…]

Trinh Thi Ngo, who died in Hanoi on 30 September 2016 aged 87, was known as Hanoi Hannah, and was famous for urging American GIs to leave her country during the Vietnam war. “There is no safety for you Americans anywhere in the country,” she warned the US Army listeners to her half-hour radio show … [Read more…]

For the past 18 months Yemen has been subjected to a horrific bombing campaign. Officially in charge of the campaign is the government of Saudi Arabia whose excuse is its desire to defend the interests of what it says is Yemen’s proper government, i.e., the US-approved government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi which was ousted … [Read more…]

By pushing ahead with THAAD deployment, Washington and Seoul are redrawing the map of the region – to the detriment of imperialism As the US Obama administration limps towards its end, its ‘pivot to Asia’, aimed at the encirclement of China, as well as Russia, is creating one crisis after another and considerably increasing the … [Read more…]

Why are the US and Britain so set on a war with Russia, and what can we as workers do to prevent such a cataclysm? It cannot have failed to attract the notice of our readers that we are witnessing an increasing drive to war against both Russia and China by our own and other … [Read more…]

With the unexpected result of Britain’s referendum on Brexit on 23 June, the dominant sections of the British and international imperialist bourgeoisies were thrown into turmoil. Multi-billionaire George Soros spoke for all that fraternity when he exclaimed following the Brexit vote: “The catastrophic scenario that many feared has materialised, making the disintegration of the EU … [Read more…]

The consequences of the collapse of imperialism’s proxy war of subversion against Syria continue to pile up at a speed that is spreading alarm and confusion in the west. Hard on the heels of the failed coup in Turkey, and declarations by that country’s government that it intends to ‘normalise’ relations with Syria and Russia, … [Read more…]

The political drama in Brazil Brazil’s ongoing political crisis continues to deepen. As the Olympic Games in Rio were played out, with the world’s eyes descending upon Brazil, the opposition moved in April to impeach President Dilma Rousseff of the governing Workers’ Party. So, as millions took in what is arguably the premier event in … [Read more…]

The following is an official statement released by Veterans For Peace (VFP): VFP Board statement Opposing U.S. THAAD ‘missile defense’ system deployment in South Korea Veterans for Peace, a global organization of military veterans and allies, opposes the recent decision of the U.S. and South Korean governments to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense … [Read more…]

The release of thousands upon thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton and other Democrat Party officials just prior to and during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) by Julian Assange’s anti-secrecy WikiLeaks organisation has been really hard for the US media to ignore but to a degree they are managing it or, more properly, they are … [Read more…]