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  • Reform under siege: making sense of Cuba’s new economic measures – by Carlos Martinez

    [Issue: July/August 2026]

    This month Cuba announced the most far-reaching changes to its economic model in more than 60 years. Approved by an Extraordinary Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and passed unanimously by the National Assembly, the programme runs to 23 strategic axes and 176... [Read more]

  • Who’s against the Bolivarian Revolution? Pt 1: The Cracker from Caracas

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    Dr Vanessa Neumann has strong personal reasons for promoting lies about Venezuela, and she has been provided with a global platform to do so.There is constant, pervasive propaganda throughout the imperialist establishment against the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, against its leadership –... [Read more]

  • Socialist DPRK makes progress on all fronts

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    By Keith BennettSuccesses on the home frontIn the recent period, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has made marked progress across the fields of economic construction and improving the people’s living standards, as well as in national defence and diplomacy and external... [Read more]

  • Obituary – Michael Parenti

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    Editors’ note: We are pleased to print this obituary by Carlos Martinez of Michael Parenti, an outstanding critic of capitalism and imperialism, who was instrumental in opening the eyes of huge numbers of people to the gross iniquities of the capitalist system – an awakening that is crucial if... [Read more]

  • Cuba and hope: the material expression of human resolve

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    The solidarity of friendly nations is helping the blockaded island to keep the lights on, but Western workers need to play their part.Hope is not a vapour that lingers when everything else has failed, nor a substitute for strategy. It is the force that makes strategy possible – the impulse that... [Read more]

  • Chagos, Iran and the new era of naked imperialism

    [Issue: March/April 2026]

    On 18 February 2026, the day before his first ‘Board of Peace’ meeting in Washington, Trump announced – by Truth Social Post – that he no longer supports the Chagos Island deal made between Mauritius and Britain. By providing yet more evidence that the Anglo-American imperialists are deal... [Read more]

  • Chilean voters revive the ghost of Pinochet

    [Issue: March/April 2026]

    ‘The rich people in my country were always foreigners –let them fly off to Miami with their aunties.I don’t want my country divided –let them take their tune somewhere far, far away.’These defiant words by Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda were set to music by his compatriot Victor... [Read more]

  • The imperialist debt trap

    [Issue: March/April 2026]

    It is to a considerable extent through debt that imperialism exploits and oppresses the countries of the Third World.  Purchase and control of critical assets such as mines, land, and major businesses, also facilitates imperialist looting.  Chapter 13 of Harpal Brar’s book Imperialism – decadent,... [Read more]

  • Stand with Venezuela against the USA’s criminal regime-change attempt

    [Issue: January/February 2026]

    Millions of Venezuelans are now under arms and, with the slogan ‘Loyal always, traitors never!’ on their lips, stand ready to defend themselves and their country, whether or not their rightful president is returned to them. For all the savage threats and theatrical proclamations of the Trump... [Read more]

  • Julian Assange files criminal complaint against Nobel Foundation over “instrument of war” peace prize

    [Issue: January/February 2026]

    WikiLeaks Founder Alleges 2025 Award to María Corina Machado Constitutes Misappropriation, Facilitation of War Crimes Under Swedish Law, Seeks Freeze of 11 million SEK ($1.18 million USD) of Pending Transfers to Machado STOCKHOLM — December 17, 2025 JJulian Assange today filed a criminal... [Read more]

  • Gen Z psy op movement fails to take down ultra popular Mexican government

    [Issue: January/February 2026]

    After successfully overthrowing Nepal’s pro-China government and destabilising governments across Asia, the Gen Z movement, led on social media from Washington, recently targeted the progressive Mexican government led by Claudia Sheinbaum. Since her election in 2024, the Mexican president has... [Read more]

  • Trump’s National Security Strategy, a blueprint for hegemony

    [Issue: January/February 2026]

    Author: Carlos MartinezThe Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), released in late November, has inspired widespread comment and a diverse array of interpretations.The most striking feature of the document is its explicit re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine, shifting the... [Read more]

  • Á la carte capitalism

    [Issue: January/February 2026]

    France’s latest budget drama exposes once again the fantasy at the heart of modern bourgeois rule: the idea that capitalism can be managed à la carte, with its benefits retained and its consequences selectively discarded.Western imperial duplicity and contradiction was perfectly exemplified... [Read more]

  • Argentine politics – lost in the labyrinth

    [Issue: January/February 2026]

    To speak of Argentina today is to speak of the implementation of a neoliberal project that continues the economic line drawn by the military dictatorship (1976-1983), the government of Carlos Saul Menem (1989-1999) and the government of Mauricio Macri (1915-1919), with its consequences of... [Read more]

  • Communist Party of Venezuela enters a new stage

    [Issue: July/August 2025]

    Anti-imperialist and loyal to the Bolivarian process, the PCV keeps marching forward.The recent history of the Communist Party of Venezuela furnishes further proof that the class struggle must be waged relentlessly on every front, both inside and outside the party. It highlights the necessity of... [Read more]

  • Falling life expectancy – a sign of The Times

    [Issue: May/June 2025]

    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

    [Issue: May/June 2025]

    “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]

  • Ecuador’s Election – a critical analysis of class interests

    [Issue: March/April 2025]

    Perhaps you like to think of yourself as an internationalist, someone who likes to maintain an interest in world events. In pursuit of said stimulation and education you might access traditional Western or Western-backed media outlets such as the Independent, the Times, the Economist, the BBC,... [Read more]

  • Trump freezes USAID

    [Issue: March/April 2025]

    The liberal media erupted in outrage when President Donald Trump’s new administration announced a funding freeze on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with some claiming it would result in thousands of government job losses and warnings of global starvation and... [Read more]

  • TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

    [Issue: March/April 2025]

    A recent article in The Times, entitled ‘Why TikTok ‘makes people more eager to visit China’, worries that “people who spend hours scrolling on TikTok are more likely to want to visit China — possibly because the platform censors material that portrays the country in a negative light”. The... [Read more]