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Church of England will bless gay civil unions

11Apr

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United Kingdom

Church of England will bless gay civil unions

The church recently issued an apology to LGBTQ people for the ‘hostile and homophobic response’ it once gave them. The Church of England will offer blessings to same-sex civil unions after its General Synod voted in favor of the measure, its two leaders, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, announced on Thursday. “For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church,” the archbishops said in a statement, while conceding that “the church continues to have deep differences on these questions.” They insisted the Church was “committed to respecting” those “for whom this goes too far.” The body debated for over eight hours on the measure, initially introduced last month, before reaching its decision, with 250 vote...

Ukraine: Defeats in the front line spark chaos in the Kiev junta

11Apr

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Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine: Defeats in the front line spark chaos in the Kiev junta

With Soledar fallen, Bakhmut surrounded and the liberation of the Donbass proceeding apace, the imperialist disaster on the military front is now translating into an extraordinary descent into faction-fighting on the political front. Attempts by the CIA chief William Burns to bang heads together in Kiev and concentrate minds on implementing the imperialist agenda are only serving to expose the real nature of the proxy war against Russia, a war which NATO cannot win. And the more vigorously the puppet-master tugs on the strings, the more visible those strings become. Even by Ukrainian standards the speed, scale and depth of the domestic purge under way at the highest levels of the Kiev power structure are breathtaking. The Guardian on 24 January 2023 reported that “Fif...

11Apr

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Russia

Glory to the heroes of Stalingrad!

February 2 this year marked the 80th anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad. It was a battle of titanic proportions. Before we deal with this battle, which changed the course of the Second World War, some background information as to events leading up to this battle is in order. The Soviet leadership well understood early on that the conditions for war were ripening; that the Versailles Treaty that ended the First World War was the basis of nothing more than a truce between wars; that the war to come would be one of horrendous proportions. The Soviet Union did not want war, but it was not up to her to stand aside. In the words of Stalin, “…if war begins, we shall hardly be able to sit with folded arms. We shall have to come out, but we ought to be...

Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

11Apr

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Germany, Russia, USA, World

Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

History is being rewritten and Soviet sacrifices are being desecrated as hundreds of WW2 memorials are dismantled across the Baltics. Party statement The imperialists have for decades been pushing a rewritten version of history that equates fascism with communism and ascribes any number of imaginary ‘crimes’ to the Soviet victors of WW2, who are presented as somehow having been ‘as bad as’ the vicious Nazi occupiers. The intense russobia that has accompanied the Ukraine war has furnished an excuse for the latest offensive in this propaganda campaign, with hundreds of war memorials all over the Baltics being targeted for demolition. The following joint statement was initiated by the Baltic Platform and has been signed by our party. ***** The ruling political forces in the&nb...

Macron secures second term, despite unpopularity and ‘ocean of abstentions’

11Apr

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France

Macron secures second term, despite unpopularity and ‘ocean of abstentions’

Where is the force capable of harnessing the anger and militancy of the French working class? Lalkar writers The re-election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France, despite his huge unpopularity with French workers, rests principally on the effectiveness of capital’s media campaign to paint Marine Le Pen as the only racist running in the election. Putting a vote for her ‘beyond the pale’ for progressive workers ensured that the only remaining candidate who had the potential to upset the EU and Nato applecarts was kept out of office. If French workers want to get away from racism and war, they will need to create a really anti-imperialist, socialist organisation capable of taking the fight to French and European capital. News of Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2022 French...

French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

11Apr

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France

French communists: A revolutionary crisis is developing in France

If properly directed, workers’ action has the power to sweep away not only the rule of Emmanuel Macron but of the entire French bourgeoisie. French communist org Subscribe to our channel The true face of the French state has been clearly revealed in the way that it has responded to workers’ resistance to a renewed attack on their pensions. On the one hand, running battles between striking workers and tooled-up riot police have become a daily occurrence across the country, while on the other, the prime minister has shocked the country by invoking an emegency clause, article 49.3, in the French constitution in order to enact the hated ‘reform’ by decree when it became clear that the parliament could no longer be relied upon to pass it. The following joint statement wa...

Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

10Apr

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United Kingdom

Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone. Ella Rule Subscribe to our channel What was it that caused councils to be drawn into the world of risky speculation in the first place? It seems that the bill that was presented to the working class after the 2008 banking sector bail-out is still nowhere near being paid off. As if it were not bad enough that wages are not keeping up with inflation, that the cost of living has soared and the NHS is being bled to death by privateers, more and more details are now coming to light regarding the serious financial troubles of many local councils, most of whom will be forced to cut back harshly on the serv...

A Free Press in Peril: The Assange Case Drags on

10Apr

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Human Rights, United Kingdom

A Free Press in Peril: The Assange Case Drags on

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Alisdare Hickson – CC BY-SA 4.0 Years pass and Julian Assange languishes in a dungeon. His crime? Well, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, but he had the intolerable courage to embarrass the U.S. military and national security state, by reporting on how American soldiers murdered Iraqis for sport. This was a truth the pentagon never wanted aired to the world. But Assange did just that. His collaborator, Chelsea Manning, was instantly clapped into prison and tortured until she attempted suicide. The viciousness with which the so-called justice system pursued her even involved a de facto double jeopardy prosecution. Meanwhile Assange hid out in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years in London, where he had been granted asyl...

American Dream, Global Nightmare: On the Origins of the Iraq War

10Apr

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Iraq, United Kingdom, USA

American Dream, Global Nightmare: On the Origins of the Iraq War

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Sergeant Ivan Frederick sitting on an Iraqi detainee between two stretchers at Abu Ghraib prison. Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity. – Judith Butler One of the problems with commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War is that the Iraq War didn’t start 20 years ago. It had been going on for more than a decade before Shock and Awe. First there was Pappy’s Bush’s invasion, followed by Bill Clinton bombing Iraq once every three days of his 8-year term and ratcheting down a sanctions regime that squeezed the life out of more than one m...

Still Spinning the Iraq War 20 Years Later

10Apr

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Iraq, United Kingdom, USA

Still Spinning the Iraq War 20 Years Later

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain ‘Don’t worry, it’s a slam dunk.” —CIA director George Tenet’s response to President Bush’s demand for intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to provide to the American people, December 21, 2002. “The President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.” —Art Fleischer, White House press spokesman, December 4, 2002. “But for those who say that we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” —President George W. Bush, May 30, 2003. The U.S. rush to war ...