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Iran’s nuclear programme is entirely legitimate On 10 April, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country had succeeded in enriching uranium and joined the ‘nuclear club’. This was achieved in the teeth of ongoing insistence on the part of western imperialism that Iran abandon its nuclear development programme, notwithstanding the fact that it was … [Read more…]

I want to speak today about a project which was close to the heart of Comrade Kim Il Sung, as indeed it is to those of almost all Korean people, be they from the north or the south or the diaspora, namely the reunification of Korea. Korea is one. Its people speak the same language … [Read more…]

Nepal has been hitting the headlines more and more often in recent months. The rebellion that was started by Maoist guerrillas against the feudal autocracy has grown from its small beginnings in remote countryside areas ten years ago into a mighty and unstoppable movement. As the conflict between the republican and monarchist forces comes to … [Read more…]

A near civil war is raging in the Niger Delta over the region’s oil production. The region’s oil wells do not belong to local people or even to Nigerians but are the exclusive preserve of foreign multinationals who loot the oil wealth through corrupt military and civil local administrations: according to People’s Daily Online of … [Read more…]

This year is the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. We honour the Irish men and women who rose up against British Rule over Ireland and held the British occupying army at bay in Dublin in 1916. We especially pay homage to those who gave their lives in the fighting or were judicially … [Read more…]

Frederick Engels once commented that “the most repulsive thing here [England] is the bourgeois ‘respectability’, which has grown deep into the bones of the workers. I am not at all sure, for instance, that John Burns is not secretly prouder of his popularity with Cardinal Manning, the Lord Mayor and the bourgeoisie in general than … [Read more…]

The General Strike was the most momentous event in the history of the British working class since the defeat of the Chartist movement in the middle of the 19th century. The first question concerns the causes of the General Strike. How could the General Strike take place in Britain – the land of capitalist might … [Read more…]

Ours is not the first generation to encounter migration on a vast scale. 200 million people, representing 3% of the global population, work outside their countries – double the number of migrants 25 years ago. This new wave of migration (for which there are several reasons to which we shall turn later on), especially that … [Read more…]

On 2 February 2006, the Board of the International Atomic Energy Commission, under heavy pressure from US imperialism, finally “referred” Iran to the Security Council of the United Nations, due to meet on 6 March. From the day that the Iranian people overthrew the regime of US imperialism’s most beloved puppet, the Shah, the US … [Read more…]

The coming 20 March marks the third anniversary of the commencement of the Anglo-American imperialist predatory war against the people of Iraq. Before the end of April, the aggressors had captured Baghdad and illegally overthrown the regime of the elected Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein. George W Bush, against the backdrop of a banner reading ‘Mission … [Read more…]