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Imperialism The BRS wisely informs us that “the chief characteristics of imperialism, therefore, are monopolisation, colonial or – in countries that have won formal political independence – neo-colonial super-exploitation, inter-imperialist rivalry and war.” Lenin defined the chief characteristics of capitalist economics in its monopolist, decadent and parasitic stage as being (1) monopoly in manufacture; (2) … [Read more…]

Milkha Singh, the renowned Indian athlete, died of Covid-19 on June 18, 2021, aged 91, five days after Nirmal, his beloved wife of 58 years, had died of the same disease. Milkha Singh became world famous after he won India’s first track and field gold medal in Wales in 1958, a race at the time … [Read more…]

It is with great sadness that we report on the death of Comrade Ivor Kenna, a long-time Marxist-Leninist, who defended the cause of socialism and the struggle against imperialism, and was a stalwart member of the Stalin Society. Ivor was born in Rugby on 28 July 1931 and brought up in Bath.  His home got … [Read more…]

On April 20, Derek Michael Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer (2001-2020), was unanimously found guilty on three counts of illegally taking the life of George Floyd. The proven charges were: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Any reader who might not know the details of the murder by police of this unarmed … [Read more…]

India got through the first wave of Covid-19 relatively lightly, thanks to a countrywide lockdown. Although the lockdown was chaotic, with millions of workers in the urban centres being dismissed overnight and forced, in some cases, to walk hundreds of kilometres to their villages in the countryside, it nevertheless acted as a restraint against the … [Read more…]

Throughout the Covid pandemic, Prime minister Boris Johnson, Secretary of state Matt Hancock, and a host of other cabinet ministers have issued briefings in which they uttered the mantra “stay home, protect the NHS, and save lives.” The number of people who, owing to this advice, died at home, rather than accessing care and the … [Read more…]

Whilst big pharma squabble over who gets the lion’s share of the lucrative global market for Covid vaccines, and the brotherly nations of the European Union fall out over their collective failure to match supply and delivery of vaccines to demand, it gets more and more obvious that capitalism is systemically incapable of dealing rationally … [Read more…]

Workers’ Party of Britain statement The Workers’ Party of Britain is opposed to the mandatory use of identity card documents, or digital applications, linked to personal medical information, in this instance Covid status, either by proof of vaccination or recent test results. While the use of testing or vaccination status for overseas travel will be … [Read more…]

So long as the US believed that a warmongering alliance led by Saudi Arabia would swiftly prevail against the popular uprising in Yemen, simultaneously shoring up US regional hegemony and boosting the profits of the US war industry, it was happy to support Riyadh’s reign of terror. There were no horrors unleashed upon the Yemeni … [Read more…]

On the day of his election as President of his country for the sixth time, Idriss Déby travelled hundreds of kilometres to the front line of the battle against rebels from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (French: Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad – or FACT for short). This is … [Read more…]