Part One — an early experience Eamon Dyas The way in which Europe is currently committing a slow economic suicide in the wake of what is effectively a US geopolitical exercise in Ukraine stands in marked contrast with what happened in 1981-82. The more robust stance adopted by Europe at that time promised the possibility of an independent Europe … Continue reading The United States policy towards Europe’s energy needs
Richard Jones Part 5: Science and Politics, Climate and Weather It was nearly forty years ago that I read that the majority of scientific research world-wide was funded entirely or partly by the US war machine, in one guise or another. I never verified the claim, but as far as I remember it was from … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
By Gwydion M. Williams Putin’s Nuclear Gamble Threaten carefully In China, Bears Shit in the Woods! Must We Be Eyeless In Gaza? How to Reverse Progress and Be Very Baffled Snippets Trump Abandoning Taiwan? Conciliation Within China Reaching across the Pacific India Neglects Its Poor Putin’s Nuclear Gamble Russians have a history of losing many … Continue reading Notes on the News
John ClaydenIt is difficult to contemplate one's demise and even more so that all life on this planet could cease. Since the invention of nuclear weapons this has become a possibility. With some friends I attended a meeting in Trafalgar Square in the early 60s where Bertrand Russell warned us that if we did not take … Continue reading Need for a peace movement
We mustn’t become a country of dropouts and uneducated people! Our schools are on fire. Figures we obtained from the Federal Statistical Office show that more and more pupils are leaving school without a qualification: Last year, 17 per cent more than two years previously. This is no wonder, as our education system is in … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter November 2024
By Gwydion M. Williams BRICS and the G7 Hegemony The Unwisdom of the New Right At Home in BRICS The Sacred WASP Democracy of the USA Millionaires as Wealth Consumers Snippets Taiwan – Beijing Could Just Blockade A Palestinian Anne Frank? Non-Wealthy IT Pioneers BRICS and the G7 Hegemony BRICS is now claiming equal authority … Continue reading Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Chickenhawk Politics A War For Peace? The Myth of Leninist Failure The Invention of Pure Ukrainianism I offer good news – a nuclear war harming any part of Europe is very unlikely. The entire Ukraine war has been fought within limits. Whatever they say in public, US and European leaders act as if … Continue reading Wars of the Chickenhawks
Richard Jones Part 5: Climate Politics vs Climate Science My title for this instalment is descriptive of the content, but began as reference to a dilemma. I thought of the last episode as being about the science, and aimed to address the politics now. Then a friend, paraphrased, said "after that account of the politics, … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
[Labour Affairs Commentary. The Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is a new party in Germany representing the interests of German workers in economic and social policy and in foreign and defence affairs. Founded this year in 2024 in a breakaway from the main German left party ‘Die Linke’ because it found Die Linke’s capture by identity … Continue reading Latest from Sahra Wagenknecht and the BSW in Germany
BRICS grows, adding 13 new ‘partner countries’ at historic summit in Kazan, Russia BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting. By Geopolitical Economy The Global South-led organization BRICS is growing. … Continue reading BRICS Summit
Call for demonstration by the group We Own It Whose voices should be heard first when it comes to the essential services we all rely on? Your voices — the public’s voices — or those of the rich and the powerful? If you’re reading this, you probably think the public should come first. That’s why you’ve … Continue reading We Own It —Nationalisation of Water industry
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, New York, September 28, 2024 Dear Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen, A few days ago, this building hosted a forum called the Summit of the Future. Russia was supportive of the … Continue reading Sergei Lavrov Speech
In February of this year ‘Labour Affairs’ pointed out that the Labour Party has historically been an imperialist party and continues to be so. Britain no longer has an empire but its political elite feel in their bones that they are heirs to an imperial tradition and need to go on acting as if the … Continue reading Beware the Warmongering Chihuahua—Editorial 2
By Gwydion M. Williams Unusual German Guilt? A War to Reverse Previous Wars Russia shall have Constantinople The Necessity of a Mixed Economy Unusual German Guilt? That Germany became fascist and that Britain’s imperial elite helped the anti-fascist cause was an accident of history. An accident that also wounded the British Empire; hurt it so badly … Continue reading Anglo Guilt for Hitler’s Power – Part One
By Gwydion M. Williams Immigration – the Left’s Suicidal Unrealism Good News from Germany China Now Allows Less Capitalism Snippets Drowning Japanese and Central Europeans Best Ignored? How Ukraine Invented Itself China’s Excellent Science End homelessness and save money Class Issues Immigration – the Left’s Suicidal Unrealism Social justice is never free. And it is unjust … Continue reading Notes on the News
Caitlin Johnstone Europe Prepares For Hot War With Russia, US Readies For Hot War With China Multiple empire managers have made separate public statements around the same time which, taken together, serve as a disturbing reminder of the dark things our rulers have planned for our future. The US Navy chief has unveiled a plan … Continue reading Europe Prepares For Hot War With Russia, US Readies For Hot War With China
Dear Friends,13.5 per cent of the vote in the Brandenburg state elections is a huge success. For the third time in a row, we have not only cleared the five-percent hurdle, but have entered a state parliament with a double-digit result. No other party launch has been so successful: after only a few months, we … Continue reading Newsletter from the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, 28th September 2024
Advances in Germany: are there lessons for the left? The new party is growing and winning not only due to its refusal to beat the war drums over Ukraine, but because of its fearless scepticism of liberal orthodoxy from cancel culture to immigration, writes Nick Wright in the Morning Star A day before last Sunday’s … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
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