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The first week in June saw intensified military action in the Ukraine, as Kiev stepped up its violations of the Minsk ceasefire, simultaneously shelling Donetsk whilst accusing the resistance militias of posing a “colossal threat“. Yet so far from serving to damp down social unrest in crisis-stricken Ukraine, hard on the heels of this latest … [Read more…]

US imperialism continues to rely heavily on its own monstrous creation, Islamic State, to further its agenda in Syria, Iraq and beyond. Whether serving as a pretext for new interventions or as the direct agent of state terror, Islamic State is entirely a product of degenerate imperialism. Like Israel itself, IS would cease to exist … [Read more…]

Sepp Blatter has been forced to resign as the head of the world football management organisation, FIFA, by pressures and threats emanating from US imperialism and its satellites. Sepp Blatter in fact had not even been connected to the corruption accusations against a group of FIFA officials and their subsequent arrests when the orchestrated calls … [Read more…]

On Wednesday 17 June a young white man entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church and after asking for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, sat beside him for an hour or so during the bible study asking questions and getting more agitated and angry as the reverend and the other assembled black people tried to … [Read more…]

30 April this year marked the 40th anniversary of the historic victory of the Vietnamese people against US imperialism, whereas the 19 th of May marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh, the great leader of the Vietnamese people. To mark these two events, Carlos Martinez wrote two articles. In view … [Read more…]

Following nearly one month of savage bombardment, overwhelmingly and indiscriminately targeted on defenceless civilians and against infrastructure, the reactionary regime of Saudi Arabia announced on 21 April that it was halting its bombing campaign against Yemen, already the poorest country in the Middle East [STOP PRESS: though 24 hours later it was back on]. The … [Read more…]

Despite the entry into the Ukraine of British and US “tactical advisors” and weaponry, aimed at shoring up the demoralised forces commanded (more or less) by the fascist junta in Kiev, there seems little immediate prospect of a decisive resumption of last winter’s stalled offensive against the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. However, the … [Read more…]

A deal has been reached between US imperialism and Iran in relation to Iran’s nuclear industry. At this stage it is ‘Heads of Terms’ only – the specific provisions that will bind both sides remain to be negotiated. Even the Heads of Terms have not been published and there is a wide divergence between the … [Read more…]

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 80 percent publicly owned and has been since it was rescued by £45bn of public money in 2008, has hit the headlines again for controversially paying out £421m in bonuses to its top employees despite announcing a figure of £3.5bn in annual losses. This takes the running … [Read more…]

On 6 April 2015 a much-heralded law came into effect introducing ‘pension liberalisation’. Under standard private pension schemes, a worker and their employer pay regular sums to an insurance company throughout the worker’s employment, building up a ‘pension pot’. On the worker’s retirement, this pot is used to purchase an annuity to produce a regular … [Read more…]