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Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

11Jan

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Peru

Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

For decades Peru, like many other Latin American nations, has been trying to become a socialist country. It seemed that fulfilment of this aim may finally be at hand when, in July, 2021, Perú Libre (Free Peru), led by Pedro Castillo, a modest, unassuming school teacher from the high Andes, emerged improbably as the country’s leading political force. Castillo had campaigned on a left-wing programme which included giving huge new impetus to Peru’s education budget, nationalising mining enterprises and hiking up taxes on multinational firms operating in the country, calling elections for a truly representative constituent assembly to replace the sclerotic and endemically corrupt national congress, and drawing up a new constitution to replace the one dating from the mandate in the ...

Iran and the Western manufactured Hijab protests

11Jan

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Iraq, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Iran and the Western manufactured Hijab protests

The Western media are harping on relentlessly about great anti-hijab protests happening all over Iran, with ever more violent repression being meted out to those protesting by a ‘vicious and violent regime’. The nail that they are trying to hang this deceitful web of lies on is the story of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. The known facts – of the sad death of this young woman – are as follows: during a shopping trip to Tehran with her family, she had emerged from a metro station and entered Talaqani Park, where she was walking with three female and two male relatives, including her brother Ashkan. The group was approached by members of the ‘morality police’ who said she was in breach of the Islamic dress code. Two of the women were given warnings but Amini, d...

Price cap stunt will not stop Russian oil trade, only further expose disunity in the Western camp

11Jan

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

Price cap stunt will not stop Russian oil trade, only further expose disunity in the Western camp

Imperialism is in a double bind. It wants to bankrupt the Russian economy, depriving Russia of the oil revenues that were its mainstay and (it hopes) making it harder for Russia to repulse NATO aggression. Yet at the same time it also wants to keep enough Russian oil flowing to feed Western industrial production and prevent the collapse of the world oil market. This self-contradictory set of goals is forcing the EU and the G7 into adopting some bizarre postures. On 5 December the EU and G7 proclaimed their plan, long in gestation, to impose a price cap of $60 per barrel on the purchase of Russian oil, with the threat of sanctions against anyone found to be paying over that threshold. But in order to get everyone to stop arguing about how high the would-be price cap should be an...

Nazi elections – even more racism and nastier fascists

11Jan

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ZIO-NAZI

Nazi elections – even more racism and nastier fascists

Israel elections – even more racism and nastier fascists It is a truism that the inhumanity of Zionism knows no bounds. It is matched only by the immense stupidity of the Zionists and the unflinching certainty that their Israel project will fail and fall! Going into the latest elections many people held the view that the Zionist government could not get more right-wing than it already was, but they have managed it, and in those elections the list of candidates on the ‘Religious Zionism’ (RZ) slate made huge gains by taking 14 seats in the Knesset. They join 32 ‘Likud’ members, 11 ‘Shas’ members and 7 ‘United Torah Judaism’ members to form a hardcore of intolerance and fascism in the next Israeli government., a government that will claim to be independent (some of them ...

Yemen’s quest for self-determination continues unabated

11Jan

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Human Rights, Yemen

Yemen’s quest for self-determination continues unabated

Despite conditions of siege and war, Yemen’s people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy. After almost eight years of continuous imperialist siege, the Yemeni revolution begun in 2014 is still advancing. Following the popular revolution which overthrew the US-Saudi stooge regime that had dominated Yemen for decades, and replaced it with a patriotic government led by the anti-imperialist Ansarullah resistance movement, the imperialists silently declared total war on the poorest nation in the Arab world. Using Saudi and Emirati military forces for plausible deniability, the Anglo-American imperialist war has killed almost half a million civilians according to the Eye of Humanity Centre for Rights and Development. Millions...

Iran and Turkey give Washington’s Kurdish proxies a rough ride in Iran and Syria

11Jan

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Iran, Syria, Turkey, USA

Iran and Turkey give Washington’s Kurdish proxies a rough ride in Iran and Syria

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists. As the decline in US fortunes continues, all Uncle Sam’s many and various proxy forces in the Middle East are feeling the chill wind of betrayal by their weakening master. As so often before, it is once again the Kurds who are feeling this abandonment most keenly, as the West first flatters Kurdish national sentiments to draw them into a devil’s bargain, and then reneges on all its promises when the wind changes. What is new is the unexpected combination of forces facing down these proxy actors. Recent weeks have seen what looks very much like a coordinated pushback by decidedly odd bedfellows Iran and Turkey, targeting (a) armed Iranian Kurdish enemies of ...

Nicaraguan minister delivers powerful message: the Sandinista revolution lives!

11Jan

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Nicaragua

Nicaraguan minister delivers powerful message: the Sandinista revolution lives!

Comrade Valdrack Jaentschke assures a packed British meeting: ‘The FSLN will continue to defend the victorious banner of revolution!’ At this year’s October Revolution celebration organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), comrade and guest speaker Valdrack Jaentschke, Nicaragua’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, delivered a wonderful speech with revolutionary optimism and fervour. We reproduce below a rough transcript of this inspiring address. Thank you very much comrades. More than any governmental position I wish that we are all comrades. Comrades in this struggle (applause). Comrade Ella Rule, president of the Communist Party of Great Britain; Comrades Joti Brar and Nina Kosta, vice-presidents, comrades, militants of the Communist Part...

10Jan

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Kosovo

What is happening in Kosovo?

We reproduce below with thanks an article published by the Anti-Imperialist Front regarding the serious unrest that has in the last few weeks erupted in Kosovo between ethnic Serbians in the north and the Kosovan authorities. NATO forcibly wrested the Kosovo province away from Serbia in 2008 on the excuse that the majority of its population were ethnic Albanians who wanted independence from Serbia. This was obviously deeply resented by Serbia as the area has a long history pertaining to Serbian nationhood, and neither Serbia itself nor ethnic Serbians in Kosovo have never reconciled themselves to the hijacking of their territory. Many countries in the world have refused to accept Kosovo as an independent state as a result of which it has not been admitted to the United...

10Jan

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Brazil

Can Lula get Brazil back on track?

Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour. In another victory for the ‘pink tide’ of leftist election victories once more sweeping Latin America, Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva has been re-elected as President in Brazil, ousting the extreme-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Lula won by a narrow margin of 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent, ahead by only 2 million out of the total 118 million votes that were cast – a reflection of the fact that a prolonged and persistent media and lawfare campaign by imperialist-backed right-wing oligarchs has branded him a ‘criminal’ in the eyes of significant numbers of Brazilians. Lula’s victory was greeted with an outpouring of joy by...

10Jan

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Environment

What a COP-Out!

The 27th world conference on climate change took place in Sharm-al-Sheikh in Egypt from 6-20 November 2022. The urgency of action on climate change was set out in his introductory remarks by Antonio Gutteres, Secretary General of the United Nations, who made the following points: • “These climate conferences remind us that the answer is in our hands and the clock is ticking.” • “We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing.” • “Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing, global temperatures keep rising…and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.” • “We are getting dangerously close to the point of no return. And to avoid that dire fate all countries must accelerate their transition now, in this decade.” •...