The recent meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska has been met with a chorus of condemnation by the leaders of Europe. In this article, Alan Woods cuts through the propaganda in the media, and gives a Marxist analysis of the events in Ukraine.

Amid global crisis, rising inequality, and war, 350 communists met in Italy for the First Congress of the Revolutionary Communist International.

Visiting Scotland to open a new golf resort, President Trump was lavished with praise and gifts by grovelling world leaders. Topping this list is Starmer himself, whose emasculation served as a sharp reminder of the real nature of the so-called ‘special relationship’.