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From the beginning of the Second Intifada – the al-Aqsa Intifada – in September 2000 to the beginning of August 2006, 4,200 Palestinians and 1,100 Israelis were killed.  Since then hundreds more Palestinians have been slaughtered by the Israeli butchers.  The zionist killing machine has gone into overdrive since the electoral victory of Hamas in … [Read more…]

The entire imperialist camp is currently engaged in a hysterical campaign against the People’s Republic of China, focused largely, but not exclusively, on the issue of Tibet in the run up to the Beijing Olympics this August.On 14 March 2008, gangs of violent thugs, including a number of Buddhist monks, rampaged through the streets of … [Read more…]

Just 38 years ago, the last – and most ‘liberal’ – constitution of Rhodesia was promulgated. It allowed for black African voters to vote in just eight of the country’s 66 constituencies, on the basis that blacks had insufficient experience with democracy to be able to sensibly exercise their vote. There was of course some … [Read more…]

_______________________________________________We reproduce below an obituary of Artyom Fedorovich Sergeyev, born 5 March 1921; died 15 January 2008.  It appeared in the Guardian, slipping in as a departure from the usual slanders against Stalin and the Soviet Union.Artyom Sergeyev was a true soviet hero and a steadfast defender of communism, and the obituary is both moving … [Read more…]

The election by the Thai parliament on Monday 28 January 2008 of Samak Sundarajev, leader of the People Power Party (PPP), to serve as Prime Minister of Thailand, at the head of a six-party coalition dominated by the PPP, climaxed a major victory for the Thai people in frustrating a conspiracy against democracy by the … [Read more…]

The African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa held its 52nd National Conference from 16-20 December 2007 in Polokwane, Limpopo, attended by more than 4,000 delegates and numerous fraternal visitors from other countries.The results of this conference were, in the apt words of the Financial Times, “arguably the most significant event in South Africa since … [Read more…]

When Laurent Désiré Kabila, the predecessor and father of the current president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was killed on 16 January 2001, the Western press and political leaders were openly supportive of this killing. “A window of opportunity is now opening” said Louis Michel, the then minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.  … [Read more…]

6 months after the outbreak of the credit crunch brought about by the sub-prime crisis, there is no end in sight for the misery of this latest shudder of the capitalist system in its death throes.  At no time in its history is capitalism free from hideous and uncontrollable crises.  Living under capitalism is equivalent … [Read more…]

In his 1944 speech, ‘Serve the people’, Comrade Mao Zedong said these famous words:“All men must die, but death can vary in its significance. The ancient Chinese writer Szuma Chien said: ‘Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.’ To die for the people is … [Read more…]

George Habash was born in 1926 in Palestine in the town of Lydd, which became Lod after the Israelis ethnically cleansed it at the time of partition in 1947.At the time when George Habash was born, Palestine was a British ‘Protectorate’, a euphemism for a British share in the spoils of war, specifically the first … [Read more…]