Cuban health workers vow to face down the genocidal US blockade

Solidarity aims must move on from the charitable aid mentality and work for the destruction of the imperialist system. Much is presented in Western corporate media regarding the parlous state of Cuba – its economy, food shortages, the flow of skilled, especially young workers overseas, shortages of every conceivable commodity – fuel, cement, medicines, educational … [Read more…]

Nicaragua, climate crisis and capitalism

In a recent webinar addressed by Ambassador Valdrack Jaentschke, who led the Nicaragua government delegation to the 2023 United Nations climate change conference in Dubai, more commonly known as Cop28, the ambassador explained how Nicaragua is combating climate change, both at home through its renewable energy and other programmes, and in the international arena through … [Read more…]

BOOK REVIEW: Thoughts on Stalin – the history and critique of a black legend by Domenico Losurdo – Part 2

The Gulag Propaganda in the imperialist organs of mass communication portrays the Soviet Union as a gigantic prison camp – the gulag – where the inmates are tortured, subjected to humiliating and dehumanising treatment. Losurdo demolishes these lying assertions, first, by reference to the treatment of prisoners in Soviet prisons; second, by referencing the complete … [Read more…]

Water Transport Workers Federation of India takes stand against Israeli genocide

tor_1957@yahoo.co.inChennai14.02.2024 TO WHOMSOEVER IT MAY CONCERN The Water Transport Workers Federation of India representing more than 3500 workers at the 11 Major Ports in the Country has decided to refuse to load or unload weaponized cargoes from Israel or any other country which could handle military equipments and its allied cargo for war in Palestine. … [Read more…]

The Zionist war against Palestinians – 22,000 murdered and 52,000 wounded

Israel has been waging a barbaric genocidal war against the people of Palestine, aimed at ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip of its entire population. At the time of writing (27 December 2023), nearly 22,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered, and another 52,000 wounded in the Zionists’ indiscriminate non-stop bombing of Gaza’s civilian population. Of those killed, … [Read more…]

Ukraine: defeat in war reveals the cracks

The imperialist proxy war against Russia is now dead in the water, with the much-lauded Ukrainian ‘offensive’ stuck in the mud and all the previous claims of imminent victory ringing hollow. Attempts to soften the blow of defeat by rebranding it as a ‘stalemate’ fool nobody: there is neither an equality of rival forces nor … [Read more…]

Israeli far right’s plans for expulsion and expansion

Reproduced from Le Monde Diplomatique of December 2023, with thanks “There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state,” says Joe Biden, but it’s far from clear what that path looks like. Meanwhile, Israel’s right see an opportunity in the tragedy. by Gilbert Achcar  It’s often said that wars are easier to start than … [Read more…]

Murder by a thousand cuts

As the NHS is gradually dismembered in the interests of privatisation, the rate of avoidable deaths is soaring. The Office for National Statistics has highlighted the fact that in the UK some extra 55,000 people a year are dying prematurely of preventable diseases, i.e., more than 1,000 every week. The effect is most dramatic among … [Read more…]

The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

Reproduced from Middle East Eye, with thanks Kissinger’s amoral, genocidal crimes revealed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life Nothing notable distinguished the birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger on 27 May 1923 to a German Jewish family in Furth, a city in Bavaria, who died on … [Read more…]