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Sixty years ago, on March 5 1953, Joseph Stalin, the architect of socialism and the inspirer of the victory against the mighty Nazi war machine, breathed his last. Just as during his life, so in his death, he continued to be hated as no-one else by the ideologues of the imperialist bourgeoisie and its agents … [Read more…]

JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH DJUGASHVILI (Stalin) was born in the little Georgian town of Gori on December 21,1879.- His father was a shoemaker, who put him to the local church school in 1888, and to the Theological Seminary at Tbilisi (Tiflis) in 1894. After studying in secret Marxist groups (formed by students and Russian Marxists in exile), … [Read more…]

On 27 January the Sunday Times marked Holocaust Memorial Day with an apt cartoon depicting Binyamin Netanyahu building a brick wall with blood red cement and crushed Palestinian bodies. While the Zionists would love us to, and indeed need us to, focus all our attention on the horrors that were suffered by the Jews under … [Read more…]

The French-led imperialist intervention in Mali is starting to meet the expected, indeed inevitable, stiff resistance, paving the way for a prolonged conflict. On 25 February, the New York Times reported that nearly 100 resistance fighters had been killed in the fiercest ground battle of the war so far, in which their protagonists were the … [Read more…]

Lincoln , Stephen Spielberg’s latest offering, hit US cinemas in October 2012 and opened in Britain in Jan 2013. From the outset, Hollywood was gearing up to declare it an epic – and at 2 ½ hours, it is certainly long. Early in the award season, it earned a ‘best actor’ Golden Globe for Daniel … [Read more…]

On 12 December 2012 the DPRK successfully, and entirely on the basis of technology developed and built by its people themselves, launched a satellite into orbit – thus bringing the country right up to date with the facilities enjoyed in most other countries. It is well-established that the images relayed by satellites can be vital … [Read more…]

For some time communists have been watching to see the exact nature of the reforms which the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government will be making to the benefits system. Letters from Jobcentre Plus and local authorities have begun to arrive through people’s letterboxes, and millions of claimants are beginning to get a clearer picture of what life … [Read more…]

The bourgeois financial press has been expressing concern since the beginning of this year about the intention of the new Japanese government to adopt economic measures that promote a target of 2% inflation rather than the deflation that has characterised the Japanese economy for some time now. The Japanese government justifies its stand as being … [Read more…]

The US general election of 6 November 2012 has come and gone, with President Barack Obama re-elected to a second four-year term, the Republicans retaining control of the House of Representatives, and Democrats that of the Senate. Consequently, the gridlock that the US Congress experienced during the two years preceding the elections promises to continue. … [Read more…]

“We’ve made a decision that the Syrian Opposition Coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the Syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian people in opposition to the Assad regime.” With these words, “recognising” what is in fact his own Frankenstein’s monster, President Obama took the … [Read more…]