November/December 2026

  • France in Flames: Young People Refuse to Be Sacrificed on the Altar of Neoliberalism

    After the yellow vests and the anti-pension-reform protests, a new mass movement is shaking the ultra-liberal government of Emmanuel Macron. Massive youth unrest against the decrepit state and understaffed high schools has been paralysing France for weeks now. It started in mid-September as a... [Read more]

  • From NEETs to recruits

    More than one million young people in Britain are now classified as NEET: not in education, employment or training. The acronym appears clinical and neutral, it’s anything but. It bundles together young workers who cannot find a job, those priced out of education, the sick and disabled, carers,... [Read more]

  • Cancelling billionaires

    Commentary on the book Cancelling billionaires before they cancel us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1926 – a great title that totally misrepresents the content.Around the world, millions of people are suffering as a result of the attempts of the billionaires, the 0.01%... [Read more]

  • From the jaws of defeat: how Brazil defied the Donroe Doctrine – by Carlos Martinez

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been re-elected president of Brazil. In the second round of the presidential election on 25 October, he defeated the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro – son of the jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro – by 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent, a margin of over 4 million votes.... [Read more]

  • Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 11

    Imagining AmericaAs the Soviet Union embarked on the road of industrialisation, Stalin, marching in the footsteps of Lenin, was prepared to learn from any quarter. Since the USA after the First World War emerged as the most advanced capitalist country, the Soviet Union aimed with its rationally... [Read more]

  • FIFA, Infantino, Messi and the World Cup for sale

    Barely had the 2026 World Cup finished before FIFA President Gianni Infantino, a close friend of Donald Trump, was proposing to sell to private investors (financial profiteers) a stake in the business behind FIFA’s tournaments. Broadcasting, sponsorship, ticketing and hospitality would be brought... [Read more]

  • Solidarity on trial: Fergie Chambers, Spain and Washington’s war on the left

    On 10 July, US political activist and philanthropist James ‘Fergie’ Chambers was arrested by Spanish police while driving with his family in Ibiza. More than three months later, he remains in Aranjuez prison near Madrid, separated from his partner, Stella Schnabel, who is pregnant, and their... [Read more]

  • Book Review – Communism the Highest Stage of Ecology by Guillaume Suing

    IntroductionGuillaume Suing is a French academic biologist who has been studying the results of applied biology, especially genetics, in socialist countries, in particular the former Soviet Union and modern-day Cuba. In Communism the Highest Stage of Ecology, Suing examines whether communism is... [Read more]

  • The Baltics and Ukraine: then as now

    How imperialism nurtures fascist seedlingsIntroduction Both Ukraine and the Baltic states experienced vast antisemitic pogroms, extermination of other minority communities, including Roma and Poles. Both Ukraine and the Baltic states heavily collaborated with their Nazi rulers, and some had... [Read more]

  • Letter to Green Party councillors: You can’t be anti-racist and a Zionist

    As the establishment tries to whip up a frenzy, now is a time for anti-Zionist Greens to stand firm. We suggest all supporters of Palestine should send the following letter of support to the Green Party councillors who supported the recent motion ‘Zionism is racism’, and who are now facing huge... [Read more]