Last week, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an import ban on goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Burnham’s government wants to pose itself on the side of “fairness against injustice”, but this move is performative, tokenistic, and changes nothing.
US imperialism’s offensive on the American continent continues with the signing of ‘the world’s largest oil deal’ with Venezuela. This ‘deal’ is in reality a heist – and it has put the final nail in the coffin of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Andy Burnham’s first foreign visit was to Ukraine, speaking of a “just and lasting peace”. But he wants no such thing. Britain and the European powers are cynically prolonging this bloodshed for their own imperialist interests, using ordinary Ukrainians as cannon fodder.
Since taking over as Andy Burnham’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband has continued Labour’s cynical ploy to appear somewhat critical of Israel. But we don’t buy it. Elsewhere, Trump’s troops harbour resentment, and world shipping faces headwinds.
The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is a continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolution.
The United States Treasury Department announced this week that it will double the buying of its own bonds. But these desperate measures will solve nothing; they will only pave the way for more crisis – and attacks upon the working class.
We say: Defend the Cuban revolution! Defeat US imperialism! Fight for world socialism! We share this statement which was passed unanimously by the leadership of the Revolutionary Communist International.
The American Empire and its world order is collapsing, and the anger of the workers in the US is growing. In this talk from the RCP summer camp, Will Collins discusses the prospects for a Third American Revolution.
In this talk from the RCP Summer School, Lubna Badi explores the main forces shaping today’s world: from the relative decline of US hegemony and the fracturing of western alliances, to Europe’s severe industrial downturn and the surge of class anger worldwide.
Since coming to power in September 2022, the leader of Burkina Faso’s military government, Ibrahim Traore, has attracted attention all over the world. In this talk, Josh Holroyd discuses what has been achieved in Burkina Faso since Traore came to power, and the way forward for the fight against imperialism in West Africa.
Corrupt FIFA boss Gianna Infantino has been forced to U-turn on his attempts to further commercialise football, following backlash from continental federations. But their protests ring hollow: at every level, the sport is being carved up for profit, while ordinary fans are squeezed.
Across the Indian subcontinent, workers and youth are entering into struggle, as the latest expression of the ‘Gen Z’ revolutionary wave. The conditions which led to these explosions – corruption, youth unemployment, and misery – exist all across the world, including here in Britain.