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The Socialist Party gets it half rightThe decision taken by the National Shop Stewards Network at a special conference on 22nd January to put its growing weight behind a national anti-cuts campaign, with organised labour at its core, is welcome news.  The rising tide of popular support amongst union militants for the proposal to break … [Read more…]

The publication of the Palestine Papers by Al-Jazeera, and by The Guardian, has come as a great shock to those who believed that Israel and/or the US ever sincerely sought to bring peace to Palestine through the 2-state solution that was agreed in Oslo.  Indeed, they have made it clear that they are only interested … [Read more…]

As the cuts in public spending, jobs, wages, benefits, services etc., resulting from the crisis of over-production, still only in the early stages, begin to bite harder, the lie machine of social democracy (the agents of imperialism within our ranks who seek always to lead us down the road of voting for the Labour Party … [Read more…]

Interview with Mohamed Hassan, a former Ethiopian ambassador, and leading expert in the politics of the Middle East and the Arab and Islamic world generally.Interview conducted by Grégoire Lalieu and Michel Collon on 1 February  2011, i.e., after the Tunisian revolution but before the downfall of Mubarak. – translated from French original. Reproduced from the … [Read more…]

William Hague, former Conservative leader and current Foreign Secretary, has personally intervened in a dispute involving two British oil companies and one of the world’s poorest nations.Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that Hague, along with Conservative MP Henry Bellingham, lobbied heavily on behalf of Tullow Oil, who was embroiled in a … [Read more…]

As this current crisis of overproduction deepens and our government cuts benefits, jobs, public services and raises tuition fees etc, while telling us that “we are all in this together” (the loyal opposition agrees the principle of cuts but would carry out the details differently), we are treated to the view of the inequality of … [Read more…]

Finding the lies about, and distortions of, revolutionary leaders of the Soviet Union, the policies of the Soviet Communists, and the actions of that once great state is quite easy; virtually any bourgeois paper, TV programme or internet blog site can be depended on to serve that up. However, it is those who pose as … [Read more…]

The 17th World Festival of Youth and Students was held at the Pretoria Show Grounds, South Africa, during the week beginning 13 December.  Red Youth, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) (CPGB-ML) was represented by Comrades Paul Cannon and Ranjeet Brar.  As the responsibility for organising the Youth and … [Read more…]

After a year of leaks, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in particular an April video taken from a US helicopter in Iraq in 2007 showing GIs shooting at least 12 innocent Iraqis like rabbits, has emerged, thanks to the response of the US authorities, as a hero.  Beginning in July 2010, his site issued … [Read more…]

Dr Binayak Sen is a popular paediatrician in India, he is known as a “Barefoot Doctor”. Sen has dedicated his work to the rural poor in India. He was handed a life sentence in prison for sedition by the government of Chhattisgarh (a state in central India).His only crime had been to expose the blatant … [Read more…]