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On 16 May, the results of the 16th General Election in India were declared. These results were as much a surprise to the winning party as to the losers. The BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) emerged from these elections with an absolute majority of seats in the lower house of the Indian parliament (the Lok Sabha), … [Read more…]

Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people’s struggle for liberation from Japanese imperialism and the establishment and building of socialism passed away on 8 July 1994. As a result the progressive world lost one of its outstanding sons – a first-class Marxist intellectual, an outstanding military leader and a good and … [Read more…]

The definitions of poverty are as plentiful as they are differing but whatever your definition, it is undeniable that many more people in Britain, a very wealthy leading imperialist nation, are poorer now than 30 years ago. It is also undeniable that the tiny percentage at the top of British society are very much wealthier … [Read more…]

Come election day in the UK, apologists for capitalism are keen to lament the “apathy” which keeps so many would-be electors at home, eager to read a penny lecture on democracy and civic responsibility to anyone so thoroughly sick of all the lies peddled by all the capitalist parties without exception that they understandably give … [Read more…]

The hired harpies and lie-smiths of the mass media in the imperialist countries produced their, now usual, major ‘hate-China-fest’ to mark the 25 th anniversary of what they call ‘the Tiananmen Square Massacre.’ The Trotskyist/revisionist/Social-Democratic so-called ‘Left’ in Britain gleefully joined them in this attempt to consolidate a big lie in the minds of working … [Read more…]

In March this year, in the run up to the local government and European elections that were to take place in May, The Sunday Times of 2 March ran an article by Richard Kerbaj and Sian Griffiths about a letter ‘leaked’ to it that had allegedly been written by an Islamic fundamentalist setting out plans … [Read more…]

For Washington, everything is going according to plan in Ukraine – except that nothing is going according to plan. Geeing up another “colour revolution” on the borders of Russia in the hope of pulling Ukraine into the EU/NATO bloc seemed to fit perfectly with the long term goals of isolating and weakening Russia and China, … [Read more…]

In the same week in April that Peter Clarke, former head of the Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism unit, was appointed as witchfinder-general tasked with sniffing out and uprooting alleged “islamic radicalisation” in Birmingham’s schools, news broke that an eighteen year old Muslim student from Brighton, Abdullah Deghayes, had just got himself killed fighting against the government … [Read more…]

US imperialism has been revealed to have been attempting to stir up revolt against the Cuban government through first surreptitiously establishing a social media network similar to Twitter by the name of ZunZuneo. Elaborate precautions were taken to ensure that the hand of US imperialism could not readily be detected, but the project was in … [Read more…]

If the West ever believed that cultivating a fascist provocation on the borders of the Russian Federation would somehow compensate for the failure of its proxy war against Syria, the events currently unfolding in the Ukraine are teaching a very different lesson. The wars of national oppression waged by the West against such countries as … [Read more…]