Imperialism limbering up for a predatory war against Syria

Fundamentalist Jihadists unleashed by US imperialism and its junior partners, notably Britain and France, as well as their Turkish and Gulf Arab stooges, to topple the secular and popular Syrian regime headed by President Bashar al-Assad, have been wreaking havoc and committing one outrage after another for two years now. In the process, they have … [Read more…]

NHS: Clinical Commissioning Groups, a cruel 1 April ‘joke’

On April fool’s day this year the Government, with some minor criticism but certainly no obstruction from the Labour Party, placed the responsibility for ‘buying’ and running NHS services into the hands of the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). According to the official blurb the ” Clinical Commissioning Groups are groups of GPs that, from April … [Read more…]

GLORY TO J. V. STALIN: Architect of Socialism

On the 60th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin, we began a series of articles on the epoch- making achievements of the Soviet Union. In March we reproduced a survey of Stalin’s life by Andrew Rothstein, a very prominent leader of the then-revolutionary CPGB, first published in the Daily Worker, in March 1953. We … [Read more…]

Hail the struggle of the Guantanamo hunger strikers!

When Obama covered himself in glory by promising to close down the Guantanamo concentration camp [Gitmo] by the end of 2009, many on the petty-bourgeois left crowed loudly. The Neo Cons were dead, long live the new age! Yet four years on, the camp not only maintains its illegal squat on Cuban soil, but on … [Read more…]

Ground the drones

Since Nato launched its illegal and unjustified invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, drones (aka Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have gone from being an untried technology to one of the primary means of warfare. The runaway leader in the field, the US, now operates 7,500 vehicles – more than 40 percent of all US defence aircraft … [Read more…]

US imperialism threatens war in Korea and targets China

Tensions remained high on the Korean peninsula throughout April, due to the massive US-led military exercises, carried out together with their south Korean puppets, aimed at rehearsing a possible invasion and occupation of the socialist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the north of the peninsula, as well as a possible nuclear conflict with … [Read more…]

Hugo Chávez, 1954 – 2013

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias was born on 28 July 1954, the second of six sons of impoverished primary school teachers. Chávez enrolled in Venezuela’s military academy at the age of 17, graduating near the top of his class in 1975 After graduating, he was posted to a counter-insurgency unit charged with subduing an armed Maoist … [Read more…]

The Boston bomb – more questions than answers

The internet is fairly buzzing with conspiracy theories concerning the Boston marathon bombing. There are clear pictures of the wrecked black backpack that one of the bombs was in with a distinctive white square on it and a picture of what looks like a security man prior to the explosion with a black backpack (with … [Read more…]

SYRIA: Warmongers hesitate on the brink

The proxy war of intervention waged against the sovereign nation of Syria for the last two years has yet to achieve its goal of overturning the legitimate government and establishing a puppet government answerable to imperialism. Despite all the hardships and horrors inflicted upon the Syrian people by this Western-backed islamist revolt, aimed at deflecting … [Read more…]