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Since usurping the throne, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, hasn’t covered himself in glory with his tact and strategic thinking, but even his supporters must have been taken aback to see his oil dispute with Russia develop into rancour with the USA. Overview of Saudi-Russia oil brinkmanship The first thing of note for … [Read more…]

Many words come to mind when we think of our much-beloved Comrade Deborah Lavin: she was intelligent, charming and likeable; energetic, inspiring and self-reliant; warm and hospitable, witty, insightful and unswervingly devoted to the cause of the working class. She was a woman of many talents, at one time running a school of English for … [Read more…]

In recent weeks the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has made steady progress towards the liberation of the province of Idlib, the last terrorist stronghold in Syria. The HTS, better known as al-Nusra, have occupied the would-be de-escalation zone and used it as a base from which to launch thousands of terror attacks in the past … [Read more…]

A well-established feature of the influenza virus is that it mutates, and that its mutations sometimes enable it to leap from one species to another. This is something humanity has always lived with, cursed at the inconvenience, mourned the victims who die before their time and struggled manfully to find a cure for. Until a … [Read more…]

Trump’s ‘deal of the century’, breathlessly flagged up back in the summer, was finally officially launched on 28 January. The announcement came at a press conference shared jointly between the US president and Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with ambassadors from Gulf statelets United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Bahrain pulled in to make up … [Read more…]

Reproduced from If Americans Knew website, with thanks At least 45 world leaders have responded to a summons to attend the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to ‘fight antisemitism.’ The event is organized by a Russian-Israeli oligarch who considers support for Palestinian human rights ‘antisemitic.’ He is promoting an Orwellian program that would criminalize ‘intolerance’ … [Read more…]

Kim Jong Un’s traditional New Year speech summing up the experience of the previous year and setting out tasks for the year to come was made this year at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on 1 January 2020. Here follow extracts from his speech: Praise … [Read more…]

Contemporary letter to The Times To the Editor. February 24, 1920, Sir, It will ultimately rest with the British public, through their representatives in Parliament, to decide as to the culpability of its various servants concerned in the massacre and other disgraceful doings at Amritsar and Lahore. As one who was present at the scene … [Read more…]

On Saturday 8 February a general election took place in Eire and brought forth a quite amazing result. Sinn Fein, standing in just 42 of the 159 Dáil Éireann seats being openly contested (the 160th goes to the speaker automatically), won 37 of them. This put them in second place to Fianna Fail (FF) who … [Read more…]

Staff at the animal charity RSPCA are wishing that their management would extend its compassion for other people’s maltreated pets to its own human employees who actually do the hard work on the front line. Shortly before Christmas last year workers were told that the existing system of incremental payments, only recently agreed, was to … [Read more…]