It is now a month since the beginning of the movement of students at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico. This is a huge movement involving tens of thousands of students in dozens of […]
The forces of ISIS are closing in on the besieged town of Kobane on the Turkish-Syrian border. Thousands of terrified Kurds have fled to Turkey in a desperate attempt to bring supplies and reinforcements, but […]
The final round of the presidential elections in Afghanistan, and the “deal” between the two “front runners”, on September 21, was so feeble, and the outcome so rotten, that even bourgeois analysts and reporters had […]
The referendum campaign in Scotland is over. Now in the cold light of day it is necessary to draw all the conclusions. The first and most important is that this represents a decisive turning-point in […]
In a press conference on August 28, US president Barack Obama openly admitted that he did not have a strategy yet to combat the jihadist ISIS group in Iraq and Syria. Obama’s confession reveals the impasse […]
The Scottish Referendum produced a seismic shift in the political landscape of Scotland. The campaign shook up the whole of society and touched those who had never even voted before. The turnout was an unprecedented […]
This article describes the effects of decades of rule by an inept and corrupt ruling class in Pakistan, and highlights the immense work done by our Pakistani comrades in building the IMT under such difficult conditions.
With just 7 days left until the Scottish independence referendum, the past week has seen a big shift in the polls. Up until now most polls were putting the “no” campaign ahead by around a […]
The main outcome of the NATO summit that took place in Newport, Wales on 4–5th September appears to have been the decision to launch a new “spearhead” rapid response task force. This “achievement” is something […]
On the eve of the NATO summit in Wales, the Ukraine crisis has seen an escalation in rhetoric. The same people who told us about Saddam’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” are now raising a hue […]
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the capitalist counterrevolution in China, an immense political and ideological vacuum opened up on a world scale. In these conditions there was a resurgence of political Islam […]
In the 14th century, the Black Death claimed the lives of an estimated 200 million people. Major cities like Florence, Paris, and London experienced the death of 50% of the population. At its peak, the […]
