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AfghanistanThe Taliban are sweeping across Afghanistan, taking one provincial capital after another. Despite over $80bn spent on “security assistance” from the US, since 2002, along [...] -
Sri LankaThousands of teachers and students in Sri Lanka have been out every day on continuous protest action, defying the government and braving the Covid 19 [...] -
Climate ChangeFirst the good news – it is still possible to avoid a climate apocalypse. And the bad news? It is already too late to avoid [...] -
EnvironmentThe mining company, Flintridge Resources, will be allowed to drill boreholes as ‘permitted development’ at a controversial goldmine at Cavanacaw, four miles upwind of Omagh [...] -
Ireland North“In the 12 weeks since the [British] Heath and [N Ireland] Faulkner governments introduced internment, the cities and towns of Northern Ireland have become battlefields. [...] -
LGBTQ+LGBTQ+ people have always had to fight to survive, let alone thrive. At the Reclaim Pride protest on 24 July, in London, there were plenty [...]
Economy
World Economy
‘Casino capitalism’ reaches new levels as inequality grows
Across the globe, at least 2.4 million people have now died from contracting Covid-19. Livelihoods have been wrecked and economies have crashed, with the world economy shrinking by over 4% and the UK suffering a […]
World Economy
Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s
For over a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises. 2021 has ushered in new lockdowns in the UK, Germany […]
World Economy
Super-rich tax evasion costs equivalent of thirty four million nurses worldwide
Around £320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network. Poorer countries are most affected, with tax […]
Theory
8oth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant
Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil -The need for a socialist alternative
Socialists debate identity politics


