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  • 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]

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

    [Issue: July/August 2026]

    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

    [Issue: July/August 2026]

    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]

  • Victory to Iran!

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    In their arrogance, US imperialism and its Israeli sidekick thought they could ignore Iran’s warnings that, were it to be attacked, it was in a position militarily to ensure its aggressors lived to regret it. And sure enough, Iran’s retaliation after it was subjected to unprovoked bombing that... [Read more]

  • Fight the dismemberment of Sudan

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    The following is the first part of an article based on a presentation made by Ella Rule in London on 3 April 2026 as one of the Southall Seminars series.  She expressed reliance on two principal and invaluable sources of information, namely (1) Harry Cross’s book Undoing a revolution – Sudan and... [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]

  • The nefarious, prejudicial and deeply-flawed IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-semitism – Part 1

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    By Dr Ranjeet Brar, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (ML) and consultant vascular surgeonI have recently been arrested for the 5th time, on charges of alleged racism – for the words of a speech delivered opposite the US Embassy in Nine Elms, London. The speech denounced... [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 – the late and unlamented Eddy Shah

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    The news that newspaper proprietor Eddy Shah had died at the age of 81 did not make headline news, notwithstanding the obituaries sections. Indeed, the name Eddy Shah would today only have resonated with people of a certain age, given that his coming to prominence in his field occurred over forty... [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]

  • Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 8

    [Issue: May/June 2026]

    Science and societyUnder Zhdanov’s leadership, the campaign against Western capitalist cultural influences was initiated in the summer of 1946. Stalin was determined to expand Soviet influence in eastern and central Europe as a barrier against future German aggression against the Soviet Union.... [Read more]