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In March 2015, a ‘coalition of the willing’ was formed of a number of Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia. With the full blessing of US-UK-EU imperialism, this coalition launched ‘Operation Decisive Storm’ – a bloody campaign of terror against the people of Yemen in which a near-total blockade and massive indiscriminate bombing led to … [Read more…]

Spymania For obvious reasons, Stalin was distrustful of spies – Soviet fears of foreign intelligence operations were perennial.  The cultural Cold War was as fierce as the east-west political struggle.  In 1949, the Soviet Union published a book entitled The truth about American diplomats, written by Annabelle Bucar, an employee at the American embassy in … [Read more…]

If two years of live-streamed genocide proves anything, it is that there can be no peace in the Middle East while the settler colonial state of Israel continues to exist. There can be no permanent peace in the Middle East while colonists continue not only to occupy stolen land but additionally continue to extend remorselessly … [Read more…]

Reform are currently heading opinion polls, with 28% of people indicating their intention to vote for Reform at the next General Election. Of course, the next General Election is not expected until 2029 and opinion polls are designed not as much to gauge opinions as to form them. It could also be argued that Reform’s … [Read more…]

As France’s political and economic crises deepen, the gulf between the people, their politicians, and the capitalist system itself widens exponentially. The trajectory toward collapse remains constant, yet the recent upheavals in France’s political system bring the looming inevitability of that collapse into sharp relief.  Let us analyse recent events in France to understand how … [Read more…]

Nepal has been shaken by its most dramatic political upheaval since the abolition of the monarchy in 2008. On September 16, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned amid nationwide unrest that left at least 22 people dead, including 19 protesters killed in clashes with police earlier in the week. It seems the immediate spark for … [Read more…]

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting loss of foreign support, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in the south, already deeply weakened following a violent civil conflict in 1986, voted for re-unification with the Yemeni Arab Republic in the north. This took place in 1990, creating a united Yemen (officially the … [Read more…]

Question: Moldova held parliamentary elections on September 28. The Moldovan Central Election Commission says the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity won. How does the Foreign Ministry assess the election outcomes? Maria Zakharova: The election campaign was assessed as unprecedentedly dirty and politicised in Moldova itself. It was marked by massive use by the authorities … [Read more…]

Britain has some of the best agricultural land in the world, so why is it that more than one third of the food consumed here is imported? The headline figure from a 2024 report issued by Defra (the Department for the Environment, Food, Rural and Agricultural affairs), is that only 62% of the food consumed … [Read more…]

Stalin’s pometki (annotations) Stalin was in the habit of writing in the margins of books he read, as well as underlining some sentences or paragraphs.  Among his expressions of disapproval or disdain were expressions such as ‘haha’, ‘gibberish’,  ‘nonsense’, ‘rubbish’, ‘fool’, ‘scumbag’, ‘scoundrel’, etc. He could also be effusive in his praise, writing ‘yes, yes’, … [Read more…]