Issue: July/August 2026

  • The war against Iran – pause or cessation?

    Introduction – the war itself“War is the continuation of politics by other means” is the most famous axiom from Carl von Clausewitz’s foundational 1832 military treatise, On War. And when war pauses, the politics continue. The US/Israeli war against Iran has hit the pause button, at least... [Read more]

  • Palantir – a predator in the NHS and a threat to the working class

    A predator was spotted in the UK during the Covid pandemic. When the world was preoccupied with keeping Covid from spreading, this predatory imperialist company ‘Palantir’ already had its eye on the NHS. Palantir secured a contract for data management of the vaccines system, charging the British... [Read more]

  • The nefarious, prejudicial and deeply-flawed IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-semitism – Part 2

    By Dr Ranjeet Brar, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (ML) and consultant vascular surgeonIn our previous issue, Dr Ranjeet Brar analysed in detail the reactionary and repressive nature of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism. His exposé continues by showing the underhand... [Read more]

  • UN: Russia and China call Trump’s bluff

    The Wall Street Journal of 29 May 2026 informs us that “Washington has failed to pay billions of dollars owed to the international body [the United Nations] and exited dozens of its programs and agencies, including the World Health Organization, to combat what President Trump describes as... [Read more]

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

    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]

  • The ongoing Pakistan-Afghanistan war

    Whilst most Western observers have remained focused on the US-Israeli imperialist war on Iran and its increasing consequences for the global economy, little attention has been paid to another ongoing war that broke out at around the same time, i.e., towards the end of February this year – the war... [Read more]

  • The Battle of Walkley, Sheffield 1922

    Its summer 1922, the post war recession is biting hard in Sheffield with 49,000 on unemployment benefit and thousands more having exhausted this and scraping along on poor relief, the working class are under tremendous pressure from all directionsHarold Cundy was one such man. Laid off in 1921,... [Read more]

  • Fight the dismemberment of Sudan – Part 2

    The woman questionDr Himmat explains: “Historically, the status of women in Sudanese society was very low. They worked in the home and in agriculture. Sudanese communities in all parts of the country were extremely conservative so even in more developed regions, women were rarely given the chance... [Read more]

  • Leonardo Conti – the macellaio’s role in connection with the Katyn massacre

    ‘Macellaio’ is the Italian word for a butcher. It is most appropriately applied to Leonardo Conti, a Swiss-Italian German doctor, who was a member of the top hierarchy in the SS, alongside Bormann, Heydrich and Rudolf Hess, as an SS Obergruppenführer. He was an integral part of the first mass... [Read more]

  • Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 9

    Masters of warStalin had a longstanding interest in details of military matters. Ambassador Averill Harriman observed that Stalin: “had an enormous ability to absorb detail … In our negotiations with him we usually found him extremely well-informed. He had a masterly knowledge of the sort of... [Read more]

  • Business friendly ‘socialism’ – Andy Burnham style

    In the beginning … there was a by-election in Makerfield.No, that’s not correct.In the beginning there was a problem for the Labour government that precipitated a by-election in Makerfield.Despite having a massive parliamentary majority, Labour has spent its first years in office doing precisely... [Read more]