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• The Iran war reaches a temporary impasse

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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!

  [Issue: September/October 2026]

  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]

• The war against Iran – pause or cessation?

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [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]

• The ongoing Pakistan-Afghanistan war

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  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

  [Issue: July/August 2026]

  ‘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]