May/June 2025

  • GAZA – the genocide continues

    This year has been marked by attempts to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza, agreement being reached, Israel breaching the terms of the agreement and further negotiations. Israel’s aim is to secure the release of the remaining hostages and then resume its genocide unhindered, to include any... [Read more]

  • Ukraine war – approaching the end game

    The crushing defeat of the West’s proxy forces in Ukraine has kicked the door open to an eventual possible diplomatic solution to the immediate conflict, one that addresses Russia’s legitimate security concerns (namely the aggressive expansion of Nato up to Russia’s borders), advances the... [Read more]

  • Russia’s victory in Kursk

    Report on the liberation of Kursk by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov to Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief, President Vladimir Putin.Valery Gerasimov: Today, we liberated the village of Gornal, the last populated area in the Kursk Region, from Ukrainian... [Read more]

  • Russia and the DPRK’s military cooperation is anti-imperialism in action

    After months of gnashing of teeth and screaming by the imperialist press over mere rumours of DPRK military involvement in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the governments of the DRPK and Russia have calmly confirmed that indeed, north Korean troops have been operating in the Kursk region in... [Read more]

  • Starmer’s failing militarism

    As British imperialism slides further into crisis, its political leaders try to cover up this decline by making ever more grandiose pronouncements as to their ability to still “project power” into the world. The declarations made by Sir Keir Starmer regarding his willingness to send British... [Read more]

  • Is Britain going bust?

    Britain’s economy is in the world’s largest top ten.  Its GDP is about £3,22tn, amounting to about £48,000 per capita.  There are estimated to be 31.5 million households in the UK, meaning that GDP per household would amount to some £122,000.    Average income per household is in the region of... [Read more]

  • From containment to confrontation, from cold to hot: the US drive to war on China

    The US-led ‘cold’ war against China is manifestly failing in its objectives of suppressing China’s rise and weakening its global influence.China’s economy continues to grow steadily. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it is by now the largest in the world. Its mobilisation of extraordinary... [Read more]

  • Duterte and the farce of international justice

    The recent arrest of former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has been hailed by various liberals as a triumph for international justice. Duterte is to stand trial at the International Criminal Court on charges related to the Filipino drug war and the allegation that he was responsible for the... [Read more]

  • Letter from the frontline. A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS on the road to total privatisation

    The Labour Party has for many decades been seen by the British working classes as the champion and protector of our National Health Service (NHS). Whilst the Attlee government did create this entity, it was a tactic to appease working class Brits post WW2 and aimed to prevent the spread of the... [Read more]

  • Falling life expectancy – a sign of The Times

    As the rising numbers of working poor and unemployed and the rapidly increasing cost of necessaries (food, clothing, housing, utilities) can no longer be contained by Britain’s dwindling social safety net, our bourgeois media are forced to acknowledge the existence of a deep cost of living... [Read more]

  • Solidarity to the people of Ecuador

    “A resounding victory for Luisa González, if the election is free and fair enough for this to happen, will demonstrate that the Ecuadorian electoral masses have had enough of imperialist super exploitation“.So ended our last article of early March 2025 covering the first round of the Ecuadorian... [Read more]

  • Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 2

    We continue Harpal Brar’s review of Geoffrey Roberts’ book on Stalin’s library, as Harpal had completed it in full before he died in January this year after only one instalment had been published (in the January/February issue).  Space did not allow for continuation in the March/April issue, but... [Read more]

  • Stand with the countries of the Sahel!

    The imperialist forces are determined to overthrow the popular military government of Burkina Faso, using their puppet Alassane Outtara, president of the Ivory Coast. The same Ivory Coast that was instrumental in the assassination of socialist president Thomas Sankara in 1987. Since Captain... [Read more]