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Cosmopolitans in Armenia lead the Armenian state over a cliff
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Cosmopolitans in Armenia lead the Armenian state over a cliff

Posted by: John Phoenix Comprador stooges are selling their country for empty promises. As ever, it is the people who will suffer. The fallout from the disastrous collapse of the Soviet Union is an ever-present factor at the root of many of today’s wars and conflicts. The wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan are a prime example of this, as is, of course, the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine. The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan dates back to 1988, when the growth of reactionary petty-bourgeois nationalist tendencies in the Soviet republics exploded into open conflict as the Gorbachev clique pushed the USSR towards collapse. The first war over the region known as Nagorno-Karabakh was concluded after six years of fighting in 1994. Arising from this ...
Ukraine update: Fools on the Hill
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Ukraine update: Fools on the Hill

Posted by: John Phoenix The collapse of Kiev’s much trailed ‘counteroffensive’ and the parallel collapse of all the related windbaggery about “standing with Ukraine until the end” is leaving the collective West with a stinking hangover. And nowhere is this more evident than with the fools on Capitol Hill in Washington, where both Republicans and Democrats still keep up the pretence that they will “stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes” whilst in reality they are both possessed of a fervent wish to wash their hands of the whole affair and find the exit, leaving Europe to sort out the mess. This contradiction, which cannot be sustained for long, is currently being played out on the floor of the US Congress, as the representatives chew over the budget requirements that need to ...
HS2 – they should have gone to ChinaSavers!
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HS2 – they should have gone to ChinaSavers!

Posted by: John Phoenix In 2009 the then Labour government set up a company called HS2 Ltd to look at the possibility of a northern version of the High Speed (HS)1 line running from London St Pancras to the Channel tunnel at Ashford in Kent.  The HS2 route would run from a new super station in Euston to Birmingham and split into two legs from there, one running into Manchester while the other went to Leeds. It was the Conservative/LibDem coalition government which made the HS2 project a reality in 2012. The cost of this HS2 was supposed to be around £37.5 billion but the project has been dogged with many problems including popular local campaigns against routes, along with all the usual corruption associated with enterprises using public finance, and estimates made in 2...
Demonisation of Palestine supporters
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Demonisation of Palestine supporters

Posted by: John Phoenix On October 25, Crispin Blunt confirmed that he was the Member of Parliament who police reported had been arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs. The MP for Reigate, who is also a former justice minister and an ex-chair of the House of Commons’ influential Foreign Affairs Committee, has now been suspended by the Conservative Party and reportedly told he must stay away from parliament. Of course, allegations of sexual and other forms of misconduct amongst the ‘great and the good’ are hardly unknown, but there appears to be more to this case than meets the eye. Blunt is insisting on his innocence. He had previously reported an allegation of extortion to police in relation to the same incident, and had spoken to officers several weeks p...
Arms factory blockaded as calls for practical solidarity with Palestine grow
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Arms factory blockaded as calls for practical solidarity with Palestine grow

Posted by: John Phoenix ‘The time to act is now’ – by Polly Smythe 26 October 2023 Reproduced from Novara Media with thanks Over 150 activists and trade union members are holding a mass picket blockading an arms factory, in protest over the use of UK arms exports in the current genocide against the Palestinian people. The pickets are blocking the two key entrances to Instro Precision Ltd, a subsidiary of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, at a site in Sandwich, Kent. Protesters bore banners that read “Workers for a Free Palestine” and “UK: Stop Arming Israel”. The action comes in response to a call from Palestinian trade unions for the international labour movement to “end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes” by halting the trading of arms, all ...
Massive UK demonstrations in support of Palestine
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Massive UK demonstrations in support of Palestine

Posted by: John Phoenix ACCORDING to organisers around 500,000 took to the streets of London on Saturday 28 October to demand a ceasefire as the Israeli onslaught in Gaza continues to escalate. In a post on Facebook aimed at the British press, Stop the War Coalition officer John Rees argued that the figures reported by the media – most gave the police estimate of 100,000, some even lower – were incorrect. He compared it to the mass demonstration against the Iraq war in February 2003 which saw at least 1 million march in the capital, in which Rees was one of the organisers. “I can tell you with certainty that yesterday’s Palestine demo, which I also helped organise, was half a million strong, not a figure one fifth of that,” he wrote. It was certainly one of the big...
Gaza: Embrace the honourable Jewish people who reject Nazi Holocaust
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Gaza: Embrace the honourable Jewish people who reject Nazi Holocaust

Embrace the honourable Jewish people who reject Israeli atrocities We reproduce below articles by Gideon Levy and Ilan Pappe who are representative of the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the world who hate the fact that the Nazi Holocaust ended up driving so many Jews into feeling that they could not be safe except in an ethnically-cleansed environment, thereby leading them to the same Nazi barbarism directed against innocent Palestinian Arabs inhabiting the land imperialism was keen to allocate to them as a ‘Jewish homeland’. Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets are painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack, Israeli ...
The Nakba
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The Nakba

Posted by: John Phoenix “The attackers came at dawn, quickly occupying the town.  The men were separated from women and shot.  One of the attackers, opening the door of homes, found an old man standing there.  He shot him. ‘He enjoyed shooting him’, an eyewitness to the attack said afterwards. “Soon the town was empty.  The entire population of 5,000 had either been killed or expelled.  Those who survived were put on trucks and driven to Gaza.  The empty homes were looted. ‘We were very happy’, one of the participants said afterwards. ‘If you don’t take it, someone else will.  You don’t feel you have to give it back.  They were not coming back’”. Reading this one could be forgiven for taking this narrative to be culled from the fron...
Gaza: Jewish people condemn Nazi Holocaust
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Gaza: Jewish people condemn Nazi Holocaust

Jewish people condemn Israeli aggression The call of the US organisation Jewish Voice for Peace has issued this important statement reflecting the true voice of Jewish humanitarian tradition that the Holocaust sought to stifle. The Root of Violence Is Oppression. Right now, Palestinians, Israelis and all of us with family on the ground are terrified for loved ones. We grieve the lives of those already lost and remain committed to a future where every life is precious, and all people live in freedom and safety.  Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, kil...