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October 7 marked the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the spectacular jail break by the Palestinian resistance, which electrified the entire Middle East, with ramifications far and wide. The Israeli Zionists, stunned by this operation, responded in the only way they know, that is, by indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, killing unarmed civilian men, women, … [Read more…]

Since the organisation now known as BRICS was founded in 2009 it has evolved considerably under the pressure of the world crisis of imperialism.  Founded as a group initially consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and the Peoples Republic of China (South Africa joined in 2010), it arose out of a shared frustration on the part … [Read more…]

The Labour government proposes to try to close Britain’s fiscal deficit by a combination of raising taxes on the working class and middle class on the one hand, and cutting public services on the other.  What is going to prove very painful for the working  and middle class is expected to raise £40 billion.  The … [Read more…]

Whilst all hell is breaking out across the Middle East, hogging most of the headlines, Nato’s proxy war against Russia is coming to an ever stickier end. Project Ukraine, instigated primarily by the US and Britain, had as its aim regime-change in Moscow, to be followed by the weakening and balkanisation of the whole of … [Read more…]

“Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as the new President of Sri Lanka. His election is a political earthquake as Sri Lankans have rejected entrenched parties and handed power to a non-elite for the first time” (Yudhajit Shankar Das, ‘Sri Lanka now delivers a political earthquake in India’s neighbourhood’, India Today, 23 September … [Read more…]

By Scott Ritter, reproduced with thanks Yahya Sinwar was killed fighting Israeli soldiers in the ruins of Gaza. His death will serve as an inspiration for Palestinians for years to come. If there is to be a free and independent Palestine, it will be because of the sacrifice made by Yahya Sinwar in the cause … [Read more…]

The whole of progressive humanity is mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, a brilliant and intrepid fighter against imperialism, who led the organisation of which he was General Secretary – Hezbollah – as it stood indomitable and often alone in the Arab world in mounting armed resistance to Israel, the racist colonial state imposed and … [Read more…]

“The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable” (V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution), Workers within the state machinery, particularly schools, … [Read more…]

The ruling class wanted Labour in power to try to manage its crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad. No one paying attention can have failed to notice how the steady undermining of the supposed ‘democratic freedoms’ enjoyed by workers in Britain – a process that … [Read more…]

So imagine you have been chosen as a juror to represent the democratic process in a UK court of law, but what you believe to be morally right, and what international courts have legally substantiated, is in direct contradiction with the legal system itself. Such was the case for a jury recently when two defendants … [Read more…]