Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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Shifting tensions over Ukraine
Signs of war weariness and divided public opinion are increasingly evidenced over the ongoing conflict, argues NICK WRIGHT
DESTRUCTION: Local residents clean the street from broken glass that fell down from the windows of their apartments and shops after a Russian rocket attack in Kiev, Ukraine
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
THE official Ministry of Defence line on the demise of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane — that Prigozhin’s death will have a deeply destabilising effect on the Wagner Group — is true only if Wagner was and is an entity separate from the Russian state.
The MoD echoes something of Vladimir Putin’s own evaluation of his former ally by lauding his personal attributes of hyper-activity, exceptional audacity and a drive for results.
But in overreaching himself in his dash on Moscow Prigozhin demonstrated the reality that the state cannot tolerate a challenge to its monopoly of force.
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