Photograph Phil Hall (1984) Putin should stop kissing icons and start jailing more oligarchs by Richard Steinhardt To the extent that Vladimir Putin seeks to restore legitimacy to the current Russian state, he must confront its foundational crimes and confiscate the assets stolen by the criminal oligarchic class. President Vladimir…
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NATO
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Game, Set & Match to Russia
Putin, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photograph Kremlin Ru, Public Domain …unless NATO carries out a pre-emptive strike by Richard Steinhardt We can all agree that the political situation in the world today is grave. Has the geopolitical situation ever been more precarious? The German leader, Chancellor Mertz, says he…
China
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Editorial: Rumours of the Death of Europe have been Greatly Exaggerated
Harold Wilson was willing to defy the U.S. and refused to take us to war in Vietnam. Photograph by Allen Warren, Creative Commons License From an anti-hegemonic, class-conscious perspective in favour of UK sovereignty and European wide solidarity and cooperation, we should have concluded that Europe’s problems are more political…
Alfred Rosenberg
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Divide and Collapse: From Bandera to BRICS in 80 Years
by Phil Hall The history of Ukrainian nationalism, in one of its earliest iterations (and most virulent forms) rose out of the civil war in the early 1920s when 22 armies invaded the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Soviet government. Britain was the main backer and enemy…
Communism
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Long live the victory of the USSR over Fascism
Photo – Paulo Oliveira, Pexels The USSR’s Victory Was Communist, Not Nationalist by Phil Hall For modern communists and humane socialists, the situation in Ukraine represents a triple shit show. On one side, there is the right-wing, recidivist Russian chauvinism that denigrates socialism, progressive ideals, and even Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich…
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