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Red Youth report from WiganOn October 1st we saw the demise of JJB Sports, once Britain’s biggest sports retailer as it moved to close 133 of its stores, and in the process making 2,000 workers redundant.   JJB has now been bought out by current Sports Direct and Newcastle United football club owner Mick Ashley, who … [Read more…]

In the June issue of Proletarian, issue 48, (The Kenya Papers) it was reported that four elderly Kenyans seeking justice and recompense for the torture they suffered at the hands of the British in the 1950s have helped uncover hidden evidence of the brutality of British rule across all its ‘dominions.’  The evidence was in … [Read more…]

The great October Revolution of 1917 is by far the most progressive event in human history.It ushered in the era of the downfall of imperialism and the victory of proletarian revolution. Despite all reverses, this is the era we continue to live in; and with capitalist economic crisis again raging, there has never been a … [Read more…]

In Belgium’s municipal and provincial elections held on 14 October 2012, the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) made a strong showing and affirmed itself as an emerging Left force in the whole country. The PTB’s electoral list “PTB+” obtained a total of 31 municipal councillors, 17 district councillors (in the city districts of Antwerp) and … [Read more…]

Dear Comrades,I would like to congratulate Lalkar for its outstanding, and most illuminating article, ‘The National Question in Scotland‘ in Lalkar Issue 214. As the British comrades can appreciate, the debate on possible Scottish secession doesn’t command a great deal of attention here in Australia, notwithstanding the many British descendants who comprise this country. Thus, … [Read more…]

Frustrated again and again in its efforts to topple the Syrian leadership and replace it with a puppet government, US imperialism is looking increasingly rudderless. Everything short of open and direct military intervention has already been tried and found wanting: funding the rebels, imposing devastating sanctions, inflicting proxy war on the country (both covert and … [Read more…]

7 October 2012 marked the eleventh anniversary of the start of the US-led predatory war in Afghanistan.  Following the 9/11 events in New York and Washington in 2001, in which 2,977 people were killed, and using these events as a pretext for a war long in preparation, the US and other imperialist countries and their … [Read more…]

This is not the first time this has happened, but this time SYRIZA has crossed the line by choosing to adorn a poster which it issued for a meeting organised on the 19/10 in Ireland with the photograph of the banner which the KKE had put up on the Acropolis in May 2010, on which … [Read more…]

The IMF, famed for its imposition of fierce Structural Adjustment Programmes on countries unfortunate enough to require its assistance to support their economies devastated by the imperialist tribute extracted from them by various ‘international’ financial institutions, has done a 180 degree turn.  Now that it is the imperialist countries themselves that are in trouble, the … [Read more…]

On Saturday 20 October the TUC called on the working class to march, once again,  up to the top of the hill (Hyde Park Corner in this case) and march back down again.  Thousands did exactly that: at one point, roughly halfway through, there were as many coming out as there were going in!  Numbers … [Read more…]