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Student revolt breaks the opportunist spellNovember’s student invasion and occupation of the Conservative Party’s national headquarters at Millbank took pretty much everyone by surprise.  Chancellor Osborne’s spending review had sparked angry local demonstrations and a London march organised by the National Shop Stewards’ Network (NSSN) and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, but drew nothing … [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…]

The representatives of the world’s ‘great and good’ have just met, again, to discuss carbon emissions at the Cancun climate control summit where they pontificated, made solemn sounding statements, debated and tried to outwit each other, not to mention the rest of us, with various versions of an ecological ‘three card trick’, where each imperialist … [Read more…]

With the negative example of the crisis of the 1930s before them, bourgeois economists and politicians are struggling violently – if in vain – to avoid the “mistakes” of that era.  Anxious to blame “mistakes” rather than capitalism itself for the crisis that devastated the capitalist world at that time and blighted millions of lives … [Read more…]

More than 7 years ago, on 13 November 2003 to be precise, India was announced as the host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.  This was supposed to be an event to showcase an emerging Asian power on the world stage – and only a few months before the Games were staged, the Indian Organising Committee … [Read more…]

On Wednesday 20 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced his long-awaited public spending review.  Everybody knew that massive spending cuts were coming equal to around £81 billion over 4 years, but it was at last announced where the cuts would fall, and it became clearer whose jobs and benefits are most likely … [Read more…]