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Notes on the News

By Gwydion M. Williams Hard Right Peacemongers in Germany Appalling Danger of Donbass Majority Rule? 6% of Russians Can’t Be Wrong? Artificial Cleverness and Job Destruction SpaceX Starship Still Unready China Still Rising Hard Right Peacemongers in Germany From 2022 and the sabotage of a moderate peace that Zelensky almost accepted, the classic West German … Continue reading Notes on the News

October 2026

  • Can People Live on Hope Alone? Editorial
  • Canvassing for George in Kentish Town.
  • Sports and Politics: Ireland v Israel
  • Democracy et cetera
  • How Europe is descending into war   
  • Was The Soviet Union “A Failed World State”
  • UK Sanctions on West Bank Settlements
  • NAZA: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
  • Presidential pardons
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • The Coming of Censorship in Britain. Liberal democracy in action.
  • Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life
  • Notes on the News
  • Guilt for 20th Century Mass Deaths
  • Burnham’s Administration is on the road to failure—Editorial
  • “Architect or Bee?” 
  • Building and Apprenticeships—Views from the front line
  • Nonsense about government bonds
  • Human Connections
  • Diane Abbott speech to Peace Conference
  • Notes on the News
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • The pursuit of European unity through war
  • Democracy et cetera
  • The Soviet Union as a Failed World State
  • Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
  • Burnham’s story should have been Inequality, not Devolution—Editorial
  • The Limits of Devolution—Editorial
  • The origins of Rock 
  • The Ukraine War—an Update
  • Fortress Football: The Debacle That Is the 2026 World Cup
  • Burnham and growth through increased defence spending
  • Racist Incidents, Southampton and Belfast
  • Trump and the JCPoA
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • Notes on the News
  • An Unknown Victory of Working class struggle
  • Gabriel Zucman We need to tax the billionaires 2025 
  • Gary Stevenson—Tax the super-rich
  • New National Security (State Threats) Bill
  • Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletters
  • Whether Burnham wins or loses, the future of the Labour Party is not guaranteed—Editorial
  • Four-day international security forum in Russia
  • How could the labour movement control inflation without increasing unemployment?
  •  PALESTINE LINKS
  • Notes on the News
  • Russia and Iran under attack
  • God and Evolution: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Is the EU already showing signs of disintegration?
  • Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
  • How Employment Law is enforced in the UK
  • Local elections—Editorial
  • Vote for the Workers Party in the May elections
  • Lord Robert Skidelsky
  • Was Fianna Fáil ‘slightly fascist’ in the 1930s?
  • Notes on the News
  • Palestine Links
  • Competitive Parliamentarianism Isn’t Essential for Democracy
  • New police powers “to protect communities from disruption caused by protests”
  • The Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
  • Britain and the War on Iran: staring into the abyss.
  • The Iranian Debacle – A Moment of Opportunity?
  • BBC Iran coverage
  • How goes the US/Israel armed aggression against Iran
  • “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy” (Paul Holden)
  • The Central Bank of Japan
  • Notes on the News
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • Virtue March
  • Leninist Communism – A Better History that Failed to Complete Itself
  • News from Sahra Wagenknecht
  • House of Commons Debates on the Middle East
  • Don’t Mention the War — Gorton & Denton
  • “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy”
  • Some initial thoughts on the Gorton and Denton by-election
  • Central Banks and Government Spending – A Tale of Two States
  • The President’s Cake
  • The UK’s War against Russia has made it much poorer.
  • Notes on the News
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • Workers Party not standing in Gorton and Denton
  • Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletters
  • Four Years Later
  • Davos – You’re All Fired
  • “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy”
  • Venezuelan oil, Sanctions and Petrodollars
  • Money, Money, Money . . .
  • The Americanisation of Football
  • Targeting the Russian “Shadow Fleet” in the Channel
  • Notes on the Constitution of the United States
  • Notes on the News
  • Starmer’s U-turn on Digital ID – does he really mean it?
  • Arbitrary Rules Sanction Jacques Baud
  • The Russian Art of War, How the West led Ukraine to Defeat
  • Wagenknecht’s newsletter 22 January 2026
  • Can Reeves’ Budget Save Labour?—Editorial
  • Review of ” Resistance the Essence of the Islamist Revolution” by Alastair Crooke.
  • An Unknown Victory of Working class struggle
  • Nathan Gill—Victim of Double Standards
  • Letters
  • Double Standards of British justice—the Case of Nathan Gill
  • The speeches of Nathan Gill
  • Your Party, Our Party, a Party for the Many
  • Notes on the News
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • Digital I.D. it’s all a matter of trust . . .
  • An ideological vacuum in Russia?
  • Should Europe Rearm?
  • Sahra Wagenknecht
  • Corruption in Ukraine in 2021
  • Inversion Of Reality The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’?
  • A Voice for Peace at the French Senate
  • Rachel Reeves’ Budget Dilemma – Households and Governments—Editorial
  • On the Road to Digital Serfdom—Editorial
  • The failure of British industry – a personal experience
  • The significance of the 1984-85 Miners’s strike
  • Letters about the ‘Unite the Kingdom, Freedom of Speech’ March on 13th September
  • The Crime and Policing Bill 2025
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • Notes on the News
  • The death of Reagan’s Star Wars
  • Extracts from the BSW Bulletin in October.
  • Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on Ukraine
  • The Onward March of the ‘Deplorables’—Editorial
  • An Unhealthy Relationship—the Labour Party and the Unions
  • The significance of the “Unite the Kingdom” rally
  • Notes on the News
  • A Freedom of Speech Rally
  • Trotskyism – a Century of Failures
  • Immigration Policy in Ireland
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • The Case of the German Left
  • The Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
  • Starmer Shuffles—Editorial
  • Demolishing Democracy—Editorial
  • Recognising Palestine
  • LABOUR AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER 2025
  • The significance of the rejection of Bullock by the Trade Unions
  • Falsifying Darwin, Feeding the Rich
  • Notes on the News
  • PALESTINE LINKS
  • BBC on Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards
  • ARMS FACTORY 10 HELD FOR A YEAR WITHOUT TRIAL 
  • Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation

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