Issue: September/October 2026

  • The Iran war reaches a temporary impasse

    As we went to press on 1 July, the situation in the war of the US against Iran was that a Memorandum of Understanding to negotiate the end of the war had been signed on 17 June 2026, which was immediately followed by an attempt by the US to breach its terms in order to defend a ship that had... [Read more]

  • Suspect wafer-thin majorities bring far right to power in Andean countries

    It was an outcome that working-class Peruvians found intensely difficult to stomach: in July, when at her fourth attempt, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the late dictator imprisoned for crimes against his people, was elected president of the country.Not by the 18 million voters living in Peru,... [Read more]

  • Andy Burnham and the Wealth Tax Experiment

    On 28 July 2026 the esteemed organ of the British state, The Times, ran an article written by Money Reporter Alice Wright entitled ‘The failed wealth tax experiment that’s a warning to Andy Burnham’. The article sounded a stark warning to the recently anointed First Lord of the Treasury as he... [Read more]

  • The commodification of education

    Karl Marx defined a commodity as something that satisfies a human need but that becomes a commodity when it is produced for sale or exchange. Education satisfies a human need but under capitalism, it has increasingly been turned into something to be bought and sold for profit. What was once... [Read more]

  • The nefarious, prejudicial and deeply-flawed IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-semitism – Part 3

    What is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance?According to its own website, “the IHRA is a complex intergovernmental organization with five main levels: Political, Expert, Partner, Grant, and Executive.” It has been designed as an international network of experts and policymakers,... [Read more]

  • Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 10

    Germany attacked the USSR by launching Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941. By the end of 1941 the Nazi Wehrmacht had reached the outskirts of Moscow and penetrated deep into Ukraine and southern Russia.One of the lies told by Khrushchev in his anti-Stalin tirade was that the initial success of... [Read more]

  • Filton 24 – judge makes a mockery of the rule of law

    In June, four of the Filton 24 defendants – the Palestine Action activists prosecuted for breaking into an Israeli arms factory in Bristol in mid-2024 to destroy weaponry destined for the Zionist military forces laying waste to Gaza – were convicted of criminal damage.Following the conviction,... [Read more]

  • Film Review – The Last Stage

    The following is the speech of Comrade George Korkovelos at a recent screening of the film ‘The Last Stage’ at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, London, on 30 May 2026Comrades,I would like to begin not in 1948, but in 2026. At a moment when the relationship between art, politics and historical... [Read more]

  • India’s cockroach revolt: from spontaneous anger to organised class struggle

    By Carlos MartinezOn 15 May 2026, while hearing a case concerning fraudulent legal credentials, India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant remarked from the bench that “there are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment and don’t have a place in a profession”. He backtracked the next day,... [Read more]

  • Fight the dismemberment of Sudan – Part 3

    The interregnumBashir was replaced by his Vice President General Ahmad ibn Auf who resigned after one day and was replaced by General Abd al-Fatah al-Burhan. The army set up a ‘Transitional National Council’ (TNC) on which the protestors were loosely represented by the ‘Forces for Freedom and... [Read more]

  • If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you are like Delcy!

    Address to the Nation by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez24 May 2026Sisters and brothers, compatriots:I address you on the darkest night in our history. Just weeks ago, we were a sovereign nation, with our conflicts, our hopes, our normal lives. And in an instant, the sky fell upon us. We... [Read more]