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14Dec

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Africa, Ethiopia

Ethiopia-Eritrea peace deal

A new era opens for the Horn of Africa. Ella Rule Ethiopians and Eritreans were rejoicing on 8 July as a peace deal was reached between the respective leaders of Eritrea (Isaias Afwerki) and Ethiopia (Abiy Ahmed), who agreed to normalise relations between the two neighbouring countries, which had cut off all links with each other starting with a 2-year war from 1998-2000 and lasting until now– to their mutual disadvantage. What caused the rift? Following the ending of colonial rule in Eritrea after the end of the second world war, its area was effectively annexed by Ethiopia in 1962, after 10 years of federation in which the rights of Eritrea, including the right to use its own national language, were gradually eroded. Naturally, the Eritreans responded to Ethiopian opp...

13Dec

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Africa, Ethiopia

What is behind the war in Tigray?

One thing stands out clearly from the last few decades of privatisation and war: capitalism is not working in Ethiopia. Ella Rule On 4 November last year, the Ethiopian government sent its army into the Tigray area of the country to quell an armed rebellion led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). On 28 November, the army had taken control of the regional capital, Mekele. Thousands of ordinary people had fled the area into neighbouring Sudan in order to get out of the way of the fighting, while the Ethiopian government imposed a news blackout on the area, as a result of which little information has emerged of what exactly is the state of affairs, although it is known that there has been a heavy death toll, among government troops as well as rebels. Given that no...

Ethiopian peace talks begin as rebel Tigrayans suffer military setbacks

13Dec

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Africa, Ethiopia

Ethiopian peace talks begin as rebel Tigrayans suffer military setbacks

Will this African nation be allowed to settle its own future without any further interference? Pavan Kulkarni A peace deal negotiated and mediated locally is the best chance for the peoples of the Horn of Africa to live in peace, free from the constant manipulations and provocations of the US imperialists and their local proxies. The following article is reproduced from People’s Dispatch, with thanks. ***** Negotiations between the federal government of Ethiopia and the insurgent Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) began in South Africa on 25 October, as the latter’s military defeat appears imminent. The civil war in Ethiopia started after the TPLF attacked a federal army base in November 2020. Representatives of both the TPLF and t...

Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

13Dec

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Iran, Syria, Turkey, USA

Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists. Proletarian writers A Kurdish armoured vehicle is destroyed by a Turkish strike in Syria. Moves by Turkey towards breaking free of the role of unquestioning US proxy must surely be welcome to anti-imperialists, no matter what has motivated such action. 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 whe...

EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia

13Dec

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Europe, Russia

EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia

In the face of the abject failure of their economic war, EU leaders are trying to salvage what they can without admitting to a U-turn. Proletarian writers Caught out by the boomerang effect of its own sanctions war, the EU has had to ‘clarify’ its position with regard to Russian fertilisers and food – claiming (falsely) that it never meant for these to be included in its brutal sanctions against the Russian economy. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1351246210&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true As Russia’s special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine reaches its six-month mark, so does Russia’s status as the most heavily sanctioned country on earth. The US regime and i...

Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

13Dec

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Europe, United Kingdom, USA

Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place. Party statement There can be no escape from poverty, crisis and war so long as production is geared toward profit rather than planned to meet human need. The following resolution was carried unanimously at our party’s ninth congress in October. ***** This congress notes the words of Friedrich Engels in 1876 in his brilliant work Anti-Dühring: “Since 1825, when the first general crisis broke out, the whole industrial and commercial world, production and exchange … are thrown out of joint every ten years.” Engels added that during these crises, “Commerce comes to a grinding halt, the markets are saturated, a multitude of p...

The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

13Dec

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United Kingdom

The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society. Party leaflet Poverty is staring many workers in the face as the cost of living spirals out of control. What should we be doing to fight back? Download this leaflet as a pdf. Everyone except the tiny minority of superrich exploiters who live in a tax-free bubble of privilege and ignorance knows what is meant by the ‘cost of living crisis’. The rapidly rising cost of living (or, indeed, of barely surviving) is imposing itself on ever wider circles, via swingeing energy bills, rising inflation, low wages, job and housing insecurity, food bank queues, hospital waiting lists, inaccessible ambulances and GPs, failing schools, and trashed social services. People are rig...

What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

13Dec

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Politics, United Kingdom

What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want? Proletarian writers Those demanding a ‘general election now’ are not calling for the democratic empowerment of the masses but for their confusion and containment, which they hope to achieve via the replacement of Tory with Labour servants of imperialism in Downing Street and Whitehall. A significant section of our ruling class clearly hopes that Keir Starmer will prove more reliable for putting into practice their programme of passing the burdens of crisis and war onto the backs of the workers. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1400581972&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true In an era o...

13Dec

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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. Proletarian writers While capitalist production relations continue to operate in the country, the global economic crisis will severely hamper the efforts of Brazil’s new government to tip the social scales in favour of the poor. 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 th...

13Dec

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Europe, United Kingdom

Brexit Bites Back

BY THOMAS KLIKAUER Photograph Source: Ungry Young Man – CC BY 2.0 In recent months, British public opinion on the issue of Brexit has shifted. Many people in Britain are becoming more critical of Brexit. With the help of plenty of dark money, Murdoch’s press, and the gross misjudgement of a conservative prime minister, the UK held a referendum on Brexit (the British exit from the European Union) in 2016. 51.9% voted for Brexit. The policy of leaving the EU was confirmed in the UK’s 2019 election. And, on January 31, 2020, Britain officially left the EU. With that, Britain was free from the illusionary shackles of the supposedly un-democratic EU. Self-determination and democracy were put back into the hands of th...