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Kenny Coyle
Duterte’s arrest: justice for the Filipino people won’t
Features / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, argues KENNY COYLE
A TV screen shows a file image of South Korean President Yoo
Features / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
Between military provocations against the DPRK and factional warfare at home, President Yoon’s martial law crisis continues to rock the South Korean state — and the US has to have known it was coming, writes KENNY COYLE
Protesters stage a rally demanding South Korean President Yo
Features / 13 December 2024
13 December 2024
The chaos and confusion that has resulted from President Yoon’s failed coup reminds us that the nation’s US-backed elite has always been ready to call in the military to prop itself up, writes KENNY COYLE
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Features / 4 December 2024
4 December 2024
Two recent high-level meetings between British and Chinese leaders have sparked controversy in the capitalist media but for all the wrong reasons, writes KENNY COYLE
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Features / 5 August 2024
5 August 2024
In the final part of his series on Labour’s possible foreign policy in government, KENNY COYLE warns that the party’s so-called ‘progressive realism’ could see increasing aggression towards China, with added uncertainty over a potential second Trump presidency
HMS Spey
Features / 3 August 2024
3 August 2024
In the second of his three-part series on how the new Labour government’s foreign policy is likely to shape up, KENNY COYLE examines David Lammy’s writings on Asia and the Indo-Pacific region – where the risk of military flashpoints is high
Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William
Features / 15 January 2024
15 January 2024
The main, Western-backed separatist party has returned to power – but with a smaller majority, thanks in part to the emergence of a ‘third camp’ sitting between full independence and reunification with China, explains KENNY COYLE
The 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS ‘Galizien’
Features / 30 September 2023
30 September 2023
In the late cold war period Canadian scholars were at the forefront of promoting revisionist theories that downplayed the horrors of Nazism – no wonder Justin Trudeau’s apologies over the Hunka affair do not ring true, says KENNY COYLE
Yaroslav Hunka (right) waits for the arrival of Ukrainian Pr
Exclusive / 28 September 2023
28 September 2023
The Waffen SS Galicia Division veteran whose celebration in the Canadian parliament has caused outrage entered Canada by way of Northamptonshire, where he lived after the war, avoiding any semblance of justice. KENNY COYLE investigates
Working-class unity
Features / 12 April 2023
12 April 2023
KENNY COYLE reviews a new pamphlet on the labour movement and the national question
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks by phone with the Cze
Features / 24 March 2023
24 March 2023
KENNY COYLE explains that the recent British-Taiwanese all-party parliamentary group visit to the contested island is part of a drive to get involved in a conflict Britain had the good sense to abandon in the 1970s
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Analysis / 18 November 2022
18 November 2022
KENNY COYLE on the background of the explosion in Przewodow
Russians protest at the involvement of British specialists i
Features / 6 November 2022
6 November 2022
Britain gave £2.3 billion to Ukraine’s war effort in 2022, along with vehicles, equipment and training of soldiers on British soil — but direct involvement in the war long predates the Russian invasion, explains KENNY COYLE
BATTLE READY: More than 2,500 US and Philippine marines laun
Features / 7 October 2022
7 October 2022
The debate around Taiwanese independence in the West largely ignores what Taiwan's actual politics and territorial aspirations are — it does in fact see itself as part of China, but the 'true China' — this is the real dispute, argues KENNY COYLE
TURMOIL AHEAD: People walk in the rain ahead of the approach
Features / 22 September 2022
22 September 2022
KENNY COYLE exposes the confusion and misinformation at the heart of Western media coverage of China and Taiwan
Biden Taiwan
Features / 19 September 2022
19 September 2022
Despite a history of diplomacy which acknowledged Taiwan was part of China, the US is now planning billions in military programmes, weapons and ‘war games’ to back up its promise of war should the territory try to reunite, warns KENNY COYLE
Myanmar protesters
Features / 5 December 2021
5 December 2021
The Communist Party of Burma has re-established its People’s Liberation Army. In an exclusive interview with the Morning Star, a party representative tells KENNY COYLE why communists have resumed armed struggle against Myanmar’s junta
Features / 30 May 2021
30 May 2021
KENNY COYLE talks to a representative of the Communist Party of Burma about its current priorities in the wake of the coup d’etat earlier this year
anti-coup protesters march during a demonstration in Yangon,
Analysis / 26 May 2021
26 May 2021
China’s complex relationship with Myanmar has confused many on the left, who too often base their binary analyses through the prism of Western media coverage. KENNY COYLE asks a Communist Party of Burma spokesperson about its view
Myanmar protest
Features / 20 May 2021
20 May 2021
All different sectors of society are joining the resistance against the new military regime, a representative of the Communist Party of Burma tells KENNY COYLE
Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute, holding
Features / 27 April 2021
27 April 2021
In this second part of the Morning Star’s exclusive interview with a spokesman from the Communist Party of Burma, KENNY COYLE asks how they analyse the roots of the conflict between the military elite and the National League for Democracy
Protesters against the February coup have faced brutal and o
Features / 25 April 2021
25 April 2021
In the first of a two-part series KENNY COYLE interviews the Communist Party of Burma about the social and economic mismanagement of the military regime
a view of skyscrapers in Shenzhen
Features / 26 October 2020
26 October 2020
As the Chinese Communist Party central committee meets to discuss the next Five Year Plan, KENNY COYLE takes a look at the extraordinary success of what is today a dynamic megacity and home to many of China’s cutting-edge companies
Edward Snowden HK
Features / 21 June 2020
21 June 2020
When the tell-all US spy fled to Hong Kong to expose the unprecedented illegal monitoring he had been party to, he also revealed that the Chinese territory itself was being targeted — no wonder Beijing is now closing these loopholes, writes KENNY COYLE