The Guilt of Upper London and the Mahan USA Press Poisoners – Now on Television Upper London’s Other Victims The Oddity of Kosovo Post-Truthful in Gaza Britain Gave the World Democracy? The USA as Redefined by Admiral Mahan Press Poisoners – Now on Television Irish socialist James Connolly complained in 1913 about the way that … Continue reading Britain’s Immoral Foreign Policy
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Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht June 2024
Once again we bring Labour Affairs readers news of the developing anti-globalist worker-friendly new left party in Germany. The party did well in the European elections and despite caution about growing too rapidly it is self-confident and optimistic about its future, particularly as it is offering policies that no other German political party wishes to … Continue reading Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht June 2024
French Elections 7 July 2024
[The first round of elections left about 500 constituencies where no one had an absolute majority. 200 had only 2 candidates remaining, but 300 had 3 candidates eligible for the second round. Negotiations took place for the weakest candidate to withdraw in order to try and block the National Rally from being elected. In around 200 constituencies the … Continue reading French Elections 7 July 2024
Britain Preparing for War
Brendan Clifford "Britain should be preparing for war—instead we're fretting over fiscal rules".—so says Paul Mason in City AM (9th April). Under his many disguises Mason has always remained a British patriot. British patriotism carries many things of the moment along with it on its erratic journey. These things are discarded in a moment when the opportunity arises for … Continue reading Britain Preparing for War
Reflections on questions concerning global warming
Richard Jones Part 2: What must we do? In the service of a multi-billion pound industry --------------------- In my introduction last month, I explained that I accepted the premises of climatists (a term that I will adopt, coined by people responding to being called denialists) when I set down to write about the project of … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
An Army Like No Other—Book Review
John ClaydenAn Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Force Made a Nation Verso, 2020by Haim Bresheeth-ZabnerNot long ago some of us went to demonstrate outside Hackney Police Station when we learnt the police were receiving training from the Israeli security services. Our MP Dianne Abbott turned up thereby no doubt sealing her own … Continue reading An Army Like No Other—Book Review
The Slovak Assassin and the Riots in Georgia
Gwydion M. Williams (The photo shows Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia) Georgia Defending its Sovereignty Slovakia Condemned for Disagreement Georgia Defending its Sovereignty If it is wrong for foreign powers to meddle in the politics of sovereign nations, surely it is sensible to make a law exposing those who have been meddled with? To insists … Continue reading The Slovak Assassin and the Riots in Georgia
Ursula von der Leyen ‘guilty of war crimes’
PRESS RELEASE, May 22, 2024 Today the International Criminal Court has been officially called to investigate Ursula von der Leyen for complicity. Reasonable grounds exist to believe that the unconditional support of the President of the European Commission to Israel – military, economic, diplomatic and political – has enabled war crimes and the ongoing genocide … Continue reading Ursula von der Leyen ‘guilty of war crimes’
News from Germany. The new party steps cautiously forward.
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter May 2024 ‘Labour Affairs’ is pleased to publish the European manifesto and an extract from the party manifesto for the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), the new left party in Germany led by Sahra Wagenknecht. In both documents the key points are clearly stated and it is evident that BSW deputies would be … Continue reading News from Germany. The new party steps cautiously forward.
Military Brutality as a General Principle in Western Thinking
(The photo shows Mosul after its destruction in 2017) "In a roundtable discussion Wednesday [8 May], former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp defended Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians by advocating military brutality as a general principle. .... “Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel is doing, we … Continue reading Military Brutality as a General Principle in Western Thinking
How fast does the deer fly fly?(1)
Trust me, I'm a scientist! Richard Jones --------------------- Reflections on questions concerning global warming Part 1: introductory --------------------- "Climate change is a multi-billion pound industry" A climate change sceptic --------------------- “Not surprisingly, the flow of information about climate change is dominated by the commercial media, and therefore directed mostly at backing profitable ventures. We see … Continue reading How fast does the deer fly fly?(1)
Secession and Ineffective Law
By Madawc Williams Between any two sovereign states, the only reality is Power Politics. Also true when a region within a sovereign state has a local majority who’d like to secede. And it’s common for both sides in secession struggles to claim that International Law is on their side. To have this repeated with great … Continue reading Secession and Ineffective Law
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams The Strange Death of Free-Market Globalisation Sponge-Up: the Reagan / Thatcher legacy 1688: Parliament Without Democracy Snippets Israel and Iran – Glad to Hate Each Other Come Fly With Me, With Fly-Blown Quality Snow In Belgium, Caused By Global Warming Modi’s India Starmer and the Errors of Ramsay MacDonald Housing Impossible … Continue reading Notes on the News
Sahra Wagenknecht— April Newsletters
Labour Affairs is pleased to publish extracts from the April newsletter of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) to give our readers an insight into the developing positions of this new left wing party in Germany. It is a breakaway from the ‘woke’ and war supporting left party Die Linke and is already outpacing them in … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht— April Newsletters
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams From Russia, With Scorn Shallow Democracy China’s Successful Leninism Snippets You know nothing, Bill Gates Replacement Americans Sad With Libertarian Freedoms Swiss Remain Human From Russia, With Scorn (Written before the terrorist attack of 22 March.) Making an enemy of post-Soviet Russia was a massive error by the New Right. Proof … Continue reading Notes on the News
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
In her newsletters Sahra introduces TV or press items where she is interviewed and speeches she makes in Parliament. Also brief statements of policy. 21March While calls for negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are getting louder and louder in the USA, while Washington is obviously no longer prepared to burn American taxpayers' money in … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams ‘Feed the Rich’ Dominates Politics The Niceness of the Next Nine Ukrainian Lives Matter China Rejects Feed-the-Rich Japanese Cherish Their ‘Honorary White’ Status Snippets Navalny: a Martyr for Libertarian Follies Israel’s Wrong Turn Falling Down for a Privatised Moon ‘Feed the Rich’ Dominates Politics We’re being told that those old people … Continue reading Notes on the News
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletters February
The new party, Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance - Reason and Justice, is putting up candidates for the 9 June EU elections. Note that Wagenknecht puts the death of Navalny at the door of the Russian authorities, without proof, but she highlights the fate of the West’s prisoner of conscience, Julian Assange, at the same time. Preventing a … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletters February
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