Issues
UK: The mourning and the myth
Peter Main Tue, 13/09/2022 - 10:43Hour 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...
Mikhail Gorbachev – a tragic figure in world history
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1197, Berlin, September 1 2022 Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:28At 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. –
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10 years of Rojava: achievements and aberrations
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 267, Berlin, September 2022 Fri, 02/09/2022 - 15:48In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...
Somalia’s Growing Famine
Dave Stockton Thu, 01/09/2022 - 07:46Somalia, 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...
Floods in Pakistan: The effects of capitalist development
Peral Azad Wed, 31/08/2022 - 11:56According 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’s strike heatwave
Dave Stockton Sun, 21/08/2022 - 09:34Britain 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...
Belarus: "Railway partisans" threatened with execution
Lars Keller, Infomail 1195, Berlin, 9 August 2022 Thu, 11/08/2022 - 07:55In 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...
Pakistan: Political crisis continues
Shehzad Arshad Sat, 06/08/2022 - 17:54Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...
Taiwan - a sign of the times
Peter Main Thu, 04/08/2022 - 15:25August 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...
Italy: Draghi falls, the far right rises
Dave Stockton Thu, 28/07/2022 - 10:50On 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...
Biden's visit to two pariah states
Dave Stockton Wed, 20/07/2022 - 11:06Joe 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: Macron weakened, RN rising, increasing class struggle
Marc Lassalle Tue, 19/07/2022 - 11:43France 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...
UK: Johnson gone - but Tories hang on
Dave Stockton Thu, 14/07/2022 - 11:39Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet as prime minister. Read more...
Madrid decisions – NATO on course for war
Susanne Kühn, Neue Internationale 266, July/August 2022 Mon, 11/07/2022 - 16:00NATO 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...
Results of the G7 summit – the West is mobilising
Wilhelm Schulz/Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1191, 29 June 2022 Thu, 30/06/2022 - 11:42It is not only Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor and host of the G7 summit, who is looking pleased with himself. Read more...
UK: Rail workers — escalate to win!
KD Tait Fri, 24/06/2022 - 16:19Britain'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...
China and the new world situation
Resa Ludivien, Neue Internationale 265, June 2022 Fri, 24/06/2022 - 08:20The last few months have shaken the global power structure. Read more...
UK: After the TUC demo: coordinate strikes to beat inflation
KD Tait Wed, 22/06/2022 - 13:24On 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...
Pakistan: Capitalist crisis and the working class
Shehzad Arshad Tue, 14/06/2022 - 10:58Since 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 West’s war aims in Ukraine
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 394, London, June 2022 Sat, 04/06/2022 - 16:45THE 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...
As Sweden and Finland join NATO: The end of Nordic "neutrality"?
Neue Internationale, Berlin, June 2022 Thu, 26/05/2022 - 17:28The Russian invasion of Ukraine has meant an all-out barrage of pro-Western imperialist propaganda in Western Europe. Read more...
Sri Lanka: For a Constituent Assembly!
Peter Main Sat, 14/05/2022 - 18:20"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...
Amazon Staten Island – a victory for rank-and-file organizing
Dave Stockton Sun, 08/05/2022 - 12:39April 1, 2022, witnessed one of the most striking victories for US Labor in quite a time. Read more...
The War over Ukraine: National Defence or Imperialist War?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 264, May 2022 Thu, 05/05/2022 - 19:21For 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...
Germany: DGB on May Day - Protests against national closing of ranks
Susanne Kühn Wed, 04/05/2022 - 19:20203,500 people took part in the trade unions' demonstrations and rallies on 1 May 2022, according to the DGB. Read more...
China: Facing the failure of Zero-Covid?
Resa Ludivien, GAM Infomail 1185, Berlin, April 20, 2022 Thu, 21/04/2022 - 12:29For 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...
Pakistan: Imran Khan forced out – the political crisis continues
Umar Javiad Tue, 12/04/2022 - 09:20Imran 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...
Malvinas War anniversary
Bernie McAdam Mon, 11/04/2022 - 18:06Forty 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...
Belarus: Solidarity with railway workers
Martin Suchanek Wed, 06/04/2022 - 18:35On 19 March, railway workers from Belarus closed the railway lines to Ukraine in order to block supplies for the invading Russian troops. Read more...
Ukraine: Sanctions: ‘war by other means’
Tim Nailsea, Workers Power 392, April 2022 Mon, 04/04/2022 - 17:03Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine has prompted justified outrage around the world. Read more...