Issue: September/October 2022

  • Support for America’s proxy war in Ukraine drains as the true cost of NATO’s adventure dawns on the world

    As Russia continues its special military operation to demilitarise Ukraine and rid it of the Banderite Nazi forces stirred up by imperialism, the world is starting to wake up to the folly of having ever given free rein to America’s proxy war against Russia.Militarily the outcome of the immediate... [Read more]

  • Cost of living crisis – the fightback is under way

    The truly unquenchable greed of our imperialist rulers has reawakened the anger and will to resist among the working class in Britain. The refreshed, and refreshing, willingness of many groups of workers to take strike action, from bus drivers and railway staff to Amazon workers, postal staff and... [Read more]

  • Support the postal workers!

    Royal Mail postal workers, already on strike on 26 and 31 August in a dispute over pay, have now also voted overwhelmingly for further industrial action over working conditions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) reported that almost 99% of its members voted in favour of taking further strike... [Read more]

  • Amazon workers against Victorian working conditions

    The global internet sales and home entertainment giant, Amazon, has seen the British section of its massive 1.5 million worldwide workforce take unexpected steps into militant resistance as a result of a derisory pay offer. Amazon does not recognise any trade unions in Britain for the purposes of... [Read more]

  • Manifesto for the present crisis: Class against class

    Following the pandemic, the whole world is finding itself in a situation of economic chaos. Living standards of working people are falling precipitously almost everywhere in the world. Countries such as Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Ghana are already bankrupt and unable to purchase essentials... [Read more]

  • Dutch farmers’ militant struggle

    In Holland farmers have for months been blocking roads, dumping manure in front of the homes of politicians, and setting haystacks alight, as well as mobilising massive convoys of tractors and other farm vehicles to disrupt the movement of traffic. Their protest is fuelled by the fact that... [Read more]

  • Farewell to Eric Levy

    Eric Levy, a veteran of the anti-imperialist movement, died on 20 July 2022 at the age of 94. Some of us had known him since the 1960s.Born in 1928 in Manchester, spending his childhood in Egypt, he was an active participant in the working-class movement in America, before moving to London in... [Read more]

  • Imperialist lies – dissecting the clichés of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

    Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world … ‘again’.Robert Wood Johnson, US ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2021, recently wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph of 5 August 2022 entitled ‘Britain and America must save Europe from... [Read more]

  • The International Anti-Fascist Congress

    On the 20 August 2022, in Patriot Park, Kubinka near Moscow, the inaugural gathering of the International Anti-Fascist Congress (IAFC) was opened. Organised by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MOD) with the stated aim of uniting “the efforts of the international community to combat the ideology... [Read more]

  • Is Russia imperialist?

    Since Russia began its Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, not only Trotskyite and revisionist outfits, but also quite a few communist parties have denounced Russia. Further, they have asserted that the conflict in Ukraine is an inter-imperialist war in the outcome of which the... [Read more]

  • How British Imperialism Crushed the Greek Revolution – Part 2

    (By Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos)The British in GreeceEnglish historian Elizabeth Barker writes that during WW2, the British government “continued to behave as if Greece was its fiefdom“. The only military aid that Britain gave to Greece was Italian loot from North Africa, while at the same... [Read more]

  • A brief history of the Comintern – the Third International of the working class

    The history of the Comintern is the history of the first worldwide wave of working-class revolution. Let its lessons inform our quest to build the next wave.A recent video on Proletarian TV showed a wide-ranging discussion on the historical backdrop to the Communist (Third) International (aka the... [Read more]

  • Resolutely condemn US and South Korean provocative war exercises

    US imperialism and its minion, the South Korean regime, began large scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 – the first in four years.  These exercises, held along the border with the DPRK, included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the... [Read more]