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A surprise election result The results of the elections to the Delhi Legislative Assembly (DLA) were announced on 10 February 2015. The announcement of the results came as much as a shock to the winning party as to the losers. On a record turnout of 67.1%, the Delhi electorate (13.3 million people in total) awarded … [Read more…]

Intro and HSBC record February 2015 saw the emergence of the latest in a stream of scandals from the ranks of the imperialist bourgeoisie and its political stooges: ” the Guardian, the BBC, Le Monde and 50 other media outlets revealed that HSBC’s Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers dodge taxes and conceal millions of … [Read more…]

On Sunday 15 February the Italian Coastguard and Navy launched a massive rescue operation near the Italian island of Lampedusa to save 2,164 people fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya. Two days before that, 600 were rescued 50 miles off of the Libyan coast, while on 11 February over 300 refugees from Libya died … [Read more…]

US private healthcare company ‘Maximus’ is to follow in the footsteps of French firm ‘Atos’ from April after being contracted by the government to carry out Work Capability Assessments (WCA) on people receiving sickness and disability benefits. WCA are used to strip benefits from thousands of sick and disabled people after appointments with non-medical professionals … [Read more…]

Last year, to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the first imperialist world war, the CPGB-ML and Stalin Society held a series of meetings. The purpose of these meetings was to refute the imperialist falsification of the meaning and essence of that war and to espouse the proletarian viewpoint and to expose the … [Read more…]

  Supposedly to ‘punish’ Russia for the successes of the resistance in Ukraine to the US-backed fascist coup, the ‘international community’, i.e., the imperialist powers of the world, have declared economic war against it, endeavouring to cause such damage to its economy, and suffering to its population, that it will give up all and any … [Read more…]

Statements made on one day by ‘President’ Poroshenko about making a ‘real’ cease-fire are contradicted the next by the leader of the Rada, Turchinov, who demands that the so-called ‘anti-terrorist’ operation must continue “until the end“. A prisoner exchange agreed one moment is sabotaged the next. In short, the fascist junta in Kiev, riven with … [Read more…]

The deaths of more than a dozen women, who participated in a mass sterilisation camp at an abandoned hospital in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in November 2014, have shone a lurid light on official India’s approach to questions of family planning and population control. Instead of providing family planning facilities which are safe, free … [Read more…]

(A) Brutal murder of Minister Ziad Abu Ein December saw the killing of Fatah MP Ziad Abu Ein and substantial disagreement over the proposed UN resolution on Palestinian statehood. In early December a group of Palestinian demonstrators marched to agricultural land in Turmus Aya, an occupied town 14 miles northeast of Ramallah, to plant olive … [Read more…]