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17 April 2019
Assange arrest: US and allied governments seeking revenge for exposing dirty wars
After seven years of self-imposed exile in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was dragged from his place of asylum and arrested by the Metropolitan police.
25 January 2017
Ed Balls: 'Speaking Out' for capitalism
Non-fiction review - Speaking Out: Ed Balls elicits sympathy for his battle against his stammer. His view that anyone who disagrees with him is a communist will probably elicit less sympathy.
31 August 2016
France: Burkini ban fuels division
International outrage has resulted from the decision of over 20 town mayors in the south of France to ban from beaches the wearing of 'burkini' swimsuits, on the grounds of 'inciting terrorism' and 'threatening public safety'. Despite a court decree rejecting the ban as unconstitutional, the mayors say they will ignore the ruling. Judy Beishon reports on how the issue has become the focus of an ugly backlash to the recent terrorist attacks in France.
23 March 2016
Brussels attacks: don't let the terrorists and racists divide us
The victims, once again, are ordinary people. The workers’ movement needs a collective response to resist terrorism, racism, and government attempts to restrict strikes, demonstrations and political opposition.
9 March 2016
Refugee crisis: cruel capitalist regimes responsible
In the EU referendum campaign the issue of migration has been put centre stage by the pro-big business campaigns on both sides of the debate
2 December 2015
Don't bomb Syria! War vote reveals two Labour Parties in one
For workers' unity against war, terrorism and racism. Ahead of parliament's vote on bombing Syria, deep divisions opened between Jeremy Corbyn and the Blairites.
2 December 2015
Eyewitness to the refugee crisis: a visit to 'The Jungle'
A volunteer reports on his time at the Calais refugee camp.
25 November 2015
While Cameron's plan to bombard Isis can weaken it, it cannot remove it completely; and extending Britain's military action from Iraq to Syria will make terrorist attacks on British targets more likely.
30 September 2015
EU ministers squabble while refugees drown
As the horrors facing millions of refugees multiply, the splits between the EU leaders demonstrate their inability to solve the crisis
23 September 2015
Refugees brutalised by thug governments
European states have closed their borders to prevent desperate people from entering
5 August 2015
Human tragedy of Calais crisis
Tories have no solutions: Despite weeks of reports about the desperate people encamped at Calais, Cameron still found a way to escalate anti-immigrant bile.
8 July 2015
Migrants flee horrors created by capitalism
For the rich there are very few obstacles to migrating to Britain. It is altogether another story for the majority of those currently fleeing war, dictatorship and conflict in the Middle East and Africa.
18 February 2015
Decades of disastrous and bloody interventions
Review - Bitter Lake: Why do the mass media and politicians tell "stories" about Western foreign policy which are "increasingly unconvincing and hollow"? To answer this, film-maker Adam Curtis examines the western "narrative" through the "prism of Afghanistan"
14 January 2015
France: counter terrorist threat with mass unity
The shocking terrorist attacks in Paris, mainly at the journal Charlie Hebdo and in a Jewish supermarket, were met with mass revulsion and outrage. These atrocities were directed at ordinary working people and do nothing to counter oppression
12 November 2014
Afghanistan war: A legacy of destruction
British combat troops were finally pulled out of Camp Bastion on 27 October
1 October 2014
Bombing will not stop sectarian violence: Once again the government is banging the drums of war. Parliament has now agreed airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) which will see the return of British military intervention in Iraq
1 October 2014
US led bombings will worsen divisions
The brutal bombing onslaught led by US imperialism on 'Islamic State' held parts of Iraq and Syria is pouring more fuel on the fires of civil war. Abhorrence is felt by people across the globe at reports of Islamic State killings. But the air attacks will solve nothing
Drone Warfare by Medea Benjamin
26 June 2013
Deadly long distance weapons of war
Geoff Jones reviews Drone Warfare by Medea Benjamin (Verso Books, 2013)
5 June 2013
"To say a military tactic is legal, or even effective, is not to say it is wise or moral in every instance," said US president Obama in a major speech recently where he promised to scale back the use of unmanned drones to attack targets in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere
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