Hour after hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be's boosting their own importance by recal Read more...

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –

Putin's condolences Read more...

In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...

Somalia, as well as parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya, is once again facing severe famine because of extreme and worsening drought in the Horn of Africa. Read more...

According to official estimates, the floods hitting Pakistan have already led to over 1000 deaths, the final figure is likely to be very much higher. Read more...

Britain is having a record hot summer - not just in terms of the 30-40 degree temperatures that have turned normally green lawns and pastures into brown scrublands – but in terms of a “hot summer” of Read more...

In March and April, the Russian army stood at the gates of Kyiv, but Putin's invasion of Ukraine stalled. A few weeks later, Russia had to withdraw from the area around the capital. Read more...

Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...

August 4, the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, might not seem an auspicious date for China to mobilise its forces to surround Taiwan. Read more...

On July 21, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, resigned for the second time in one week, after key parts of his national unity coalition; the populist Five Star Movement, M5S, Matteo Salvini’s far- Read more...

Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. Read more...

France has had a long season of elections. It started last autumn with the presidential campaign, including primaries in the major parties, that generated a xenophobic, anti-migrant climate. Read more...

Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet as prime minister. Read more...

NATO leaders celebrated in the midst of war. They themselves present the conference on 28 and 29 June as a "historic summit" with an "undoubted message". Read more...

It is not only Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor and host of the G7 summit, who is looking pleased with himself. Read more...

Britain's railway network was twice brought to a standstill on June 21 and 23 as 40,000 rail workers walked out in the first national strike for 30 years. Read more...

The last few months have shaken the global power structure. Read more...

On Saturday 18 June, tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand action to fight the growing cost of living crisis. Read more...

Since Imran Khan lost a parliamentary vote of confidence and Shahbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) replaced him as prime minister, the political crisis wracking the country has taken even s Read more...

THE WORLD situation in 2022 is characterised by multiple crises—the most immediate and far reaching in its global consequences is the war in Ukraine, which has massively boosted re-armament, the expan Read more...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has meant an all-out barrage of pro-Western imperialist propaganda in Western Europe. Read more...

"Rajapaksa is sending his thugs to kill us", that was the one line message sent to the League by a supporter at the protest camp on Galle Face Green in Colombo on May 9. Read more...

April 1, 2022, witnessed one of the most striking victories for US Labor in quite a time. Read more...

For all their rejection of the imperialist aggression represented by the Russian attack on Ukraine at the end of February, Marxists must ask themselves deeper questions about the background to the con Read more...

203,500 people took part in the trade unions' demonstrations and rallies on 1 May 2022, according to the DGB. Read more...

For years, China's Zero-Covid strategy appeared to be a successful and life-saving alternative to the prevailing pandemic policy in the West. Read more...

Imran Khan's time as prime minister ended in the last moments of Saturday, 9th April, after weeks of political crisis and a power struggle between his PTI-led government and the opposition. Read more...

Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government fought an undeclared war against Argentina for control of the Malvinas or, as Britain calls them, the Falkland Islands. Read more...

On 19 March, railway workers from Belarus closed the railway lines to Ukraine in order to block supplies for the invading Russian troops. Read more...

Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine has prompted justified outrage around the world. Read more...