Comment by Labour Affairs: The BSW is the only genuine left party in Germany. It advocates peace and anti-imperialism, freedom of expression and distances itself from fashionable identity politics. As such it is far more of a threat to the German political class than other so-called left parties and unlike the AfD it advocates socialist … Continue reading Extracts from the BSW Bulletin in October.
World News
Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on Ukraine
31 October 2025 [Lord Skidelsky was allowed five minutes] My Lords, I do not know whether it is a punishment or a privilege to be put last in the list of Back-Bench speakers, as I invariably am when it comes to a debate on Ukraine. The noble Lord, Lord Coaker, was powerful and eloquent in … Continue reading Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on Ukraine
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Immigration – Giving Away the Lives of Others Feed-The-Rich Privatisation Hungary – the Wounds of 1956 Snippets Structureless Protests are Fun, but Failures USA Resenting Indian Success Hindu Home-Grown Racism Poland Replacing Coal With Nuclear. Sunlight for Power and Food Robots – Dangers and Hopes Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian … Continue reading Notes on the News
The Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
[LA: It is striking how much the situation in Germany mirrors that of England, in particular the race to armaments at the expense of the welfare state, and the increase in the price of energy due to sanctions against Russian oil and gas. The situation created would be intolerable to the population in England if they … Continue reading The Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
Falsifying Darwin, Feeding the Rich
By Gwydion M. Williams Vanity and Defeat in the 1970s Big Dominant Creatures Not Really Winners ‘Dead Souls’ Recovering Intelligent Despite Natural Selection? Walking Apes, Accidental Tool Users Could I Compare You to a Summers Day? Vanity and Defeat in the 1970s After World War Two ended with victory for the old Imperial powers in … Continue reading Falsifying Darwin, Feeding the Rich
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams When Mr President of the USA makes International Law Lies about Ukraine’s Civil War Labour Renewal Snippets US Politics – Corrupt Long Before Trump Gaza’s Yours, the Donbass is Ours ? Should Xi try an Aksai Chin gambit? (Pictured) A Mess in Bolivia Why are honeybees dying en masse in the … Continue reading Notes on the News
The latest bulletins from the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany.
LA comment: The BSW continue to show that a substantial section of the German population do not hate Russia, are not warmongers and wish to preserve what remains of their welfare state. They wish to restore good relations with Russia so that Germany can once again access the source of its prosperity – cheap Russian … Continue reading The latest bulletins from the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany.
Britain, Europe and Military Power—Editorial 2
British governments, together with their media servants, have been telling us for many years that Russia is an enemy. When the Special Military Operation began in Ukraine in early 2022 it was confidently asserted that the Russians were militarily incompetent and would fail against the Ukrainians. In reality Russia launched a pre-emptive strike against a … Continue reading Britain, Europe and Military Power—Editorial 2
The Power of the European Commission
Ukraine and supply of Russian gas to Europe - part five. How the European Commission came to assume power over Europe’s foreign policy Eamon Dyas On 17 June 2025, The Guardian reported that the European Commission had unveiled plans to ban all gas imports from Russia by January 2028. The plans represent an unprecedented expansion … Continue reading The Power of the European Commission
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams The Western Betrayal of Real Equality Anarchism: a Guarantor of Failure Iran: a Martyr-Nation for Islam? Reagan’s Encouragement of Market Parasites The Western Betrayal of Real Equality From 1945, with the common people who’d been victors of World War Two insisting on more equality, the leaders of the West appeared to … Continue reading Notes on the News
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
The War in Iran Sahra's official information channel, [22/06/2025] The biggest of all rogue states has done it again: the USA has invaded a sovereign state with its war of aggression against Iran, in violation of international law. Allegedly to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb, which, however, even according to US intelligence services, is not … Continue reading The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
Targeting Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”
Why the targeting of Russia’s so-called “Shadow Fleet” represents a most dangerous escalation of NATO’s proxy war on Russia. By Eamon Dyas There are many ways in which a country’s sea-borne trade can be curtailed by an enemy. The most obvious one is the use of a close naval blockade which restricts all shipping to … Continue reading Targeting Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams China as a Global Example Society Exists, and Immigrants Strain it From Slave Plantations to the Vatican Incomplete Humans Praising Incomplete Brain-Machines Cure the Internet with a Digital Passport Snippets Young people tricked into crimes Canada to Split? Humans With Human Limits China as a Global Example “From Edison to Amazon, … Continue reading Notes on the News
EU Interference in Ukraine War
Eamon Dyas If Zelensky does go through the pretence of talks with Russia it won’t be in good faith. There will be proposals - as there always have been from Kiev - that everyone knows will not be acceptable to Russia. As far as I see it nobody, including Trump, Russia and the European war … Continue reading EU Interference in Ukraine War
British Foreign Policy : the Domination of Europe
Labour Affairs Group Why is Jonathan Powell attending peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine? Moscow has barred Western European leaders from participating in the negotiations, accusing them of a biased approach to the conflict and trying to prolong the fighting. Nevertheless, the UK is reportedly sending Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s security adviser, Jonathan Powell, to … Continue reading British Foreign Policy : the Domination of Europe
The UK Nuclear Deterrent
Will David Lammy have to go “naked into the conference chamber”? Opposing a resolution in favour of nuclear disarmament at the Labour Party conference in 1957, Aneurin Bevan declared “if you carry this resolution and follow out all its implications … you will send a British Foreign Secretary, whoever he may be, naked into the … Continue reading The UK Nuclear Deterrent
USA Going to the Robodogs
By Gwydion M. Williams Trump is President for the second time, because he promises to do something about the long-term decline of the USA as a manufacturing power. Not just cheap production of US designs, which is how it started in the 1980s. Being aware that Mao’s China had launched satellites and exploded hydrogen bombs after … Continue reading USA Going to the Robodogs
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism Lies as the Poison of Democracy Squeezing Protestors Global But Ignoble Fading Fear of China Snippets Old World Civilisations Unite? Diversity for Superior Persons? Is Dyslexia a Woke Imaginary Illness? What Actually Works? US Pressure on India Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism “Crimea is … Continue reading Notes on the News
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