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The train operating company Southeastern, run by Go-Ahead, is the South East franchise holder. Or at least it was until the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, abruptly withdrew the franchise amid a welter of fraud allegations, sending Go-Ahead’s share values down by 25 percent. The main allegations concern advance payments made to the company to cover … [Read more…]

Resolution passed unanimously by the Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain (ML) meeting on 8-10 October 2021. This Congress notes that the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the fundamental crisis that has been engineered within our beloved but much abused National Health Service over a 40-year period, by successive Labour, Conservative and LibDem … [Read more…]

The summary departure of US troops from Afghanistan and collapse of the mercenary Afghan army further seriously weakens US dominance in the Middle East, widens cracks in the warmongering imperialist coalition and usefully undermines the prestige of capitalist class rule over the home populations of the imperialist heartlands. The entire country of Afghanistan is now … [Read more…]

The imperialists are becoming more blatant in their attempts to topple the socialist system in Cuba. The recent anti-government protests in Cuba are a product of the relentless manoeuvres against the country staged by the US over a long   period of time to obliterate the Cuban revolution. Since the victory of the Cuban revolution, the … [Read more…]

Transparency International, TI, the creators of annual reports on corruption worldwide, define corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Unfortunately, TI only deals with perceptions, gleaned from public surveys etc., of corruption in national and local government and the judiciary of a given country.  This means that the continual and multitudinous corruption … [Read more…]

The months of April to July this year have been marked in Colombia by mass protests on the part of people who have simply had enough of being poor and subjected to violent repression when they live in a country so rich in natural resources. The protests were sparked by a government announcement of huge … [Read more…]

Industrial decline in northern Ireland has left the Loyalist communities that once worked its mills and shipyards plagued by unemployment, educational underachievement, debt, drugs and suicide. They remain perennially disaffected with – and yet perennially dependent on – a ruling class that continues to cynically exploit their existential insecurity with every word it speaks. Shattering … [Read more…]

by Harpal Brar There are many books on the market purporting to give insight into the unfolding economic and political situation in China.  Almost all of them are either frankly anti-communist and avowedly pro-capitalist or assert that China’s rise and its economic success are attributable solely to its market reforms. To the extent that the … [Read more…]

Alternative economic and political strategy “This struggle against the policies of British state-monopoly capitalism can open the road to socialism, although any strategy for such fundamental change must be able to outline the distinct stages of revolutionary transformation. This in turn raises the question of how a popular, democratic anti-monopoly alliance would seek political power, … [Read more…]

Tunisia, the North African country from which the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ first erupted, has been plunged back into political and economic chaos with the sacking in July of the Prime Minister, Hichem Mechichi, by the President, Kais Saied. Parliament has been suspended, MPs have been stripped of immunity and there have been multiple arrests of … [Read more…]