Solidarity

Israel has had enough of Netanyahu

Public opinion polls in Israel consistently show that Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government cannot win the next election. The parties of the centre and left are consistently polling higher than those of the right.  And it’s…

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Belarus: Time for solidarity

Last week I interviewed Lizaveta Merliak, who runs Salidarnast, a group campaigning in support of the embattled independent trade union movement in Belarus.   Liza was an activist in the Belarusian unions who was forced to…


Marx & Engels on the German elections

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled “The Russian Menace to Europe”.  The authors were listed as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  A…


Munich 2025: Return of the “Guilty Men”

As Karl Marx famously wrote in 1852, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as…


Goma and Global Capitalism

“More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN.” That’s from a BBC report a few days ago.  This horrific…


Trump’s Favourite President

Last Monday was Donald Trump’s first day in office as President and he raced to issue a series of “executive orders”.  One would imagine that these reflected his highest priorities as well as those of…




Who rules Georgia?

The pro-Moscow ruling party in Georgia, billionaire Bdzina Ivanishvili’s “Georgian Dream,” is growing increasingly desperate in its attempts to hold on to power following the 26 October elections. First, they bungled the attempt to steal…