Doug Valentine is the author of The CIA As Organised Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. ***** Amongst the many Nazis recycled by the west in the wake of the second world war was one Reinhard Gehlen, the former Wehrmacht intelligence chief turned CIA asset. His personal spy network – the Gehlen Organisation – infiltrated…

The environmental pressure group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has issued what it terms an “open call” to “take a stand against the fossil fuel economy”. It asserts that the British public is “beyond ready to get rid of fossil fuels”, but that governments “lack the courage and imagination to do what’s necessary”. In which case, XR urges…

On 24 March this year, the Financial Times editorial board printed an exceptionally revealing article headlined ‘Holding Russia to account for war crimes’. Revealing because it gave away something that has been missing from the imperialists’ discussion of international affairs for (at least) the entirety of the post-cold war period – the key…

The sacking of 800 seafarers by ferry company P&O marks a new low in industrial relations in Britain, shamelessly revealing the complete contempt capitalism has for those whom it holds in its thrall as wage slaves. Canny workers will learn from this bitter experience to discern the essential barbarism of all capitalism, which cares nothing for its workers…

This article is reproduced from Amnesty International’s website, with thanks. ***** Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said on 1 February in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the…

The imperialist media are working flat out rubbishing Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, one minute pretending to detect signs of the intervention getting bogged down and the next claiming that a rapid advance of the Russian military is multiplying civilian casualties. Judging from the few glimmers of light that penetrate the fog of war…

On 19 March, Ukrainian actor/president Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for meaningful talks with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, saying: “This is the time to meet, otherwise Russia’s losses will be such that several generations will not recover.” This bizarre show of concern for the welfare of Russian troops aside, if Zelensky is now ready to engage…

Following on from the preparatory laws that have been added lately to the state armoury for oppressing workers and putting down any possible insurrections or even the most polite of street protests, we now have the Nationality and Borders Bill sat in the committee stage of its journey through the House of Lords. This will leave only the report and third…

The following resolution was carried unanimously at our party’s ninth congress in October. ***** This congress celebrates with unadulterated joy the defeat of the imperialist forces and the victory of the resistance in Afghanistan. In the face of the Taliban sweep across the country, the Nato-trained mercenary Afghan army collapsed, while Ashraf…

This article is reproduced from Workers World, with thanks. ***** The second of December 2021 marked the 46th anniversary of the end of the Laotian civil war. Not only did the Royal Lao government, in power from 1947 to 1975, fall that day, but the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a socialist nation with a Marxist–Leninist government, was established…

As we come out of the Covid pandemic we are being hurtled into another world pandemic – a pandemic of rising prices and falling living standards. British households are being warned that they can on average expect a 2 percent fall in their living standards in 2022 as compared to 2021 as a result of (1) higher energy costs; (2) increased taxation and…

The following article is reproduced from the website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with thanks. ***** There is a war in Ukraine. Outwardly, it looks like an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All political forces, including left, have spoken out about these events. The range of assessments: from humanistic-emotional (“people…

On 1 January this year a few hundred people demonstrated in the city of Zhanaozen, which lies a thousand miles southwest of Nur Sultan (formerly Astana), the capital city of Kazakhstan. Originally begun as a protest against a steep hike in the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the country’s favoured car fuel, the demonstrations were quickly…

Ri Ji Song is a researcher at the Society for International Politics Study, DPRK ***** The greatest danger the world is now faced with is the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the United States and its vassal forces, which are shaking international peace and stability at the base. The USA’s unilateral and unfair cold war mentality and its bloc-forming…

The following statement was issued by Cuba’s revolutionary government on 26 February 2022. ***** The USA’s determination to continue Nato’s progressive expansion toward the Russian Federation’s borders has brought about a scenario with implications of unpredictable scope, which could have been avoided. The United States’ and Nato’s military…

This article by Mike Whitney was published on Global Research on 13 February and is reproduced with thanks. Although written before Russia commenced operations in Ukraine, it is nevertheless useful for understanding how US imperialism has been goading Russia with the aim of causing an irreparable rift between Russia and Germany and putting paid to the…

On 2 March, the Trotskyite/revisionist-led Stop The War coalition convened a meeting at Conway Hall in London to protest about the war in Ukraine. Comrades who attended noted that all the speeches consisted of: 1. The usual orgy of self-congratulation for previous mobilisations against the Iraq war. 2. General agreement that Russia was in the wrong…

The following resolution was carried overwhelmingly at our party’s ninth congress in October. ***** This congress notes that in the constant expansion of our practical work, and with our growing ambitions as a small organisation, it can be easy for our comrades to become overwhelmed and bogged down in day-to-day tasks that all feel extremely urgent…

The following resolution was carried unanimously at our party’s ninth congress in October. ***** This congress greets the formation of the Workers Party of Britain with the hope that it will prove to be a watershed moment in the history of the struggle against social democracy and imperialism in Britain. Congress recognises that under Jeremy Corbyn’s…

With Julian Assange still in Belmarsh prison for dishing the dirt on US war crimes and Craig Murray now free again after his recent four month spell in Saughton prison after conviction on trumped-up charges relating to the Alex Salmond case, it’s looking increasingly like the only real home of honest journalism these days is behind bars. And now it’s…

Families struggling to hold things together as wages stagnate, inflation lets rip and energy bills go through the roof will be cheered to hear that at least some British people are doing well out of the crisis. A report by property consultants Knight Frank has calculated that the number of ‘ultrarich’ people in the UK (defined as those with assets…

The Russian intervention in Ukraine, depicted ludicrously by Boris Johnson as an unprovoked attack upon a democratic country, is in fact the very belated response to a slowly unfolding aggression against Russia that has been waged over three decades. The military challenge to this long erosion of Russian security has been a long time coming and is heartily…

Workers outside of London and the south east are set to lose as much as a third of their local bus services this spring, as private bus operators move to protect their profits now the government’s Covid subsidies are drying up. Bus usage reduced sharply through lockdown, when people were advised where possible to avoid public transport. Government…

Independent journalist Dean O’Brien talks to Nina Kosta about the situation in the Donbass, the eastern, ethnically Russian and culturally Soviet workers’ region of Ukraine, formally recognised as the independent people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk after the Nato-backed fascist coup of 2014. Dean explains that certain key facts are not being…

As the drum beats for war grow ever louder and the media chorus more cacophanous, a classic piece of misinformation was inserted into a recent Financial Times article: “More than 14,000 people have died in the conflict in eastern Ukraine since Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014.” (Why has Putin got Ukraine’s separatist regions of Donetsk…