Palestine / Zionists step up their efforts to ethnically cleanse the West Bank of Palestinians

The extreme fascism of the Israeli state is now clearly revealed – and a sign that the whole colonial endeavour is careering headlong towards the abyss.

British history / Twenty years later: the predatory imperialist war against Iraq

While the heroic resistance was defeating US and British imperialist forces, the British working class was effectively demobilised by its corrupted leadership.

North Africa and Middle East / The quiet revolution: peace breaking out all over the middle east

While Uncle Sam and co are bogged down in trying to destroy Russia via Ukraine, peoples elsewhere are getting out from under his jackboot.

Palestine / The ‘incremental genocide’ of the Palestinians continues

Ilan Pappe: it is high time the seventy-year project of extermination of Palestinians should be internationally recognised as a genocide.

Syria / Natural disaster in Syria and Turkey: a tale of two earthquakes

Imperialist sanctions, occupation and war have hugely exacerbated the effects of the recent quake on the longsuffering Syrian people.

China / China sets out new foreign policy approach: oppose US unilateralism

The CPC has officially acknowledged that the ‘agreement incapable’ USA is set on hegemony and confrontation.

Palestine / Israeli persecution of Palestinians taken to a new level in January

The zionists have seemed to get away with their crimes untouched for 75 years, but every sign is that this experiment in fascistic colonialism is doomed.

Palestine / Israel elections – even more racism and even nastier fascists

The utter degeneracy of the zionist polity is just one of many signs that Israel’s days are numbered.

British politics / Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now?

Yemen / Yemen’s quest for self-determination continues unabated

Despite conditions of siege and war, the Yemeni people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy.

Iran / Iran and the western-manufactured hijab protests

Attempts to cast imperialist countries as champtions of women’s rights are laughable to anyone familiar with the declining position of women in the west.

Qatar / Qatar at the crossroads?

Can US pressure force Qatar to sever its economic ties to Iran and Russia?

Turkey / Iran and Turkey hit Washington’s Kurdish proxies in Iraq and Syria

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists.

World / Imperialist aggression hastens demise of US hegemony and the rise of Brics

As history moves on, new alliances are being formed that are more in tune with the real balance of forces in the world.

Iraq / ‘Normalising’ relationships with Israel now carries the death penalty in Iraq

A new law may force Iraqi politicians to put their money where their mouth is on the question of Palestine solidarity and anti-imperialism.

Palestine / Obituary for Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

A CNN investigation has endorsed the view that Shireen was deliberately assassinated. But the truth about Israeli crimes cannot be snuffed out so easily.

Yemen / Saudis continue to violate the truce in Yemen

Despite ceasefire agreements, Saudi military attacks are ongoing, as is the brutal blockade of Yemeni ports, leaving millions at risk of starvation.

Africa / Why African countries are remaining ‘neutral’ over the war in Ukraine

Historical ties of friendship and solidarity between Africa and the former Soviet Union weigh strongly in the feeling that Africa has towards Vladmir Putin.

Russia / USA’s proxy war in Ukraine cementing the world anti-imperialist alliance

Not only have the imperialists strengthened instead of crushing Russia, they have in the process given new confidence to independent-minded states everywhere.

Palestine / Palestinian Nakba continues with the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

After 74 years of endless atrocities, the Israelis are further than ever from realising their fascistic goal of an ethnically ‘pure’ state.

Media / Yemen v Ukraine: What makes a war newsworthy?

Why are the crocodile tears of our leaders and their presstitutes reserved for some victims of war and denied to others?

World history / Annette Beaumanoir: antifascist and anti-imperialist heroine of our times

Legendary French resistance fighter and groundbreaking ‘Red Doctor’ who dedicated her long life to serving the people.

Palestine / Amnesty International: Israel guilty of ‘apartheid against Palestinians’

Western NGO is forced to conclude that Israel has constructed ‘a cruel system of domination’ that is ‘a crime against humanity’.

Syria / Bombing of Syria’s Tabqa dam: US war crime that nearly killed untold thousands

A recent investigation has uncovered the truth about an action for which the imperialists had previously denied responsibility.

UAE / Dubai’s freezing of F-35 order is a slap in the face for the USA

Another formerly loyal vassal is looking to keep its options open as imperial America’s star wanes.

Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

Climate change / Cop26: Fiddling while the world burns

Awash with fossil fuel lobbyists and corporate sponsors, the latest ‘climate conference’ was just another greenwashing exercise for monopoly capital.

Lebanon / Lebanon has a new government, but remains a vassal state

The hypocrisy of US imperial enforcer Victoria Nuland denouncing the ‘thieves’ her own government has propped up for decades passes all bounds.

Education / Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses

The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.

British politics / Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

Tunisia / Ten years on from the Jasmine revolution, the masses are moving again

The ravages of Covid have added to the longstanding issues of poverty, hunger, unemployment and corruption which brought down Ben Ali a decade ago.

Afghanistan / US imperialism slinks out of Afghanistan

As war after war ends in defeat, the much-touted ‘new American century’ is turning out to be the era of imperial decline.

Iran / US escalates tension with Iran in attacks at home and abroad

But in doing so, it is only weakening its own already shaky position in the middle east.

Palestine / Nasrallah: Gaza’s victory paves the way for the total liberation of Palestine

Lebanese resistance leader shows how the Palestinians won in Gaza and what that victory signifies for the middle east.

Syria / Bashar al-Assad’s latest presidential election victory is gall to imperialism

The regime change project may have destroyed countless lives and livelihoods, but the Syrian people remain firm in resisting outside interference.

Palestine / Operation al-Quds Sword strikes terror into the heart of Israel

After bombarding Gaza for 11 days, Israel has achieved only the emboldening and greater unity of Palestinian resistance.

Palestine / ‘Resiste y avanza’: Venezuelans host global solidarity event for Palestine

Workers all over the world have been expressing their disgust at the latest zionist outrages.

Palestine / Latest Gaza assault: zionism signs its own death warrant

Palestinians have given up waiting for the ‘international community’ to act on toothless resolutions and are increasing the strength and unity of their own resistance.

Britain / Britain commits to nuclear expansion in defiance of non-proliferation treaty

What is behind the renewed imperialist drive to war?

Yemen / Imperialism and its sidekicks sink in a swamp of their own making in Yemen

The indomitable spirit of the Yemeni resistance is further proof that the imperialists and their proxies are incapable of winning a single aggressive war.

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

Capitalism is proving itself to be systemically incapable of dealing rationally and humanely with the global pandemic.

Palestine / Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, steal land with impunity

The violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against civilians continues, propped up by Israel’s legal system and the world’s blind eyes.

Palestine / The ethnic cleansing of the West Bank

While western politicians and media pursue imaginary ‘antisemites’, they continue to ignore or excuse the murderous crimes of Israel.

Palestine / Israel weaponises Covid, witholding vaccine from Palestinians

While loudly claiming to be the ‘most vaccinated nation’ on earth, Israel continues to ignore the health needs of the occupied and blockaded Palestinians.

Palestine / Israel arrests Palestinian politicians ahead of PA elections

As Palestinian elections draw near, Israel has been rounding up politicians in an attempt to suppress any real exercise of political sovereignty or self-determination.

Yemen / US falters over Yemen war, while Britain stops its ears

While the US looks to hide its defeat behind talk of peace and principles, Britain continues blatantly to prioritise the interests of its arms manufacturers.

Palestine / Israel makes Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election

Eleven families left searching for shelter after Israeli forces destroyed their village in the Jordan Valley.

British politics / The Big Ride for Palestine and the Labour party

Tower Hamlets council’s decision to ban a fundfaising event for Palestine highlights the Labour party’s role as a tool of British imperial policy.

USA / Trump’s lengthening shadow will stymie Biden’s return to the Obama ‘norm’

Efforts to revive the halcyon days where Obama could sign off on endless drone assassinations and still be heralded as a beacon of ‘progress’ will not work.

Iran / Is the US about to launch an all-out war against Iran?

Incapable of learning from experience, the war hawks are once more banging the drum for yet another criminal, genocidal but ultimately futile war in the middle east.

Iran / One year on from the imperialists’ murder of General Qasem Soleimani

All progressives must support the right of Iran to defend itself against relentless imperialist aggression.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange victorious, for now

Judge’s ruling makes it clear that the principles supposedly protecting free speech and honest journalism remain in peril.

World / ICC drops case against Britain, despite ‘clear evidence’ of war crimes

How can the warmongering criminals rampaging around the globe be held to account?

Iran / In memoriam Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian scientist who served his people

Israel hopes by such cowardly assassinations both to decapitate Iran’s defence capabilities and to trigger a new regional war.

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

The war machine is facing a most welcome crisis of legitimacy.

Yemen / British soldier arrested for protesting collusion in Saudi’s Yemen war

‘I’ve seen enough not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a pay cheque.’

Syria / Syrian and Libyan oil: Washington’s hand in the till

People across the middle east continue to suffer war and economic hardships as the price of living on top of coveted oil resources.

UAE / Gulf states’ pact with the devil over Palestine

What did the UAE hope to achieve by making public peace with the zionist state?

Lebanon / Tragedy in Lebanon

The blast in Beirut port may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

British politics / Stop the War gets it wrong again

When is an anti-war movement not an anti-war movement?

Palestine / Palestinian lives matter: the murder of Ahmed Eriqat

Ahmed Eriqat of Abu Dis was the latest victim of senseless murder by Israeli soldiers in occupied Palestine.

Palestine / Under cover of Covid-19: Israel tightens the screws on Palestine

Israel’s violent suppression and annexation of Palestine continues unabated, but with it so grows the just resistance of the Palestinian people.

Venezuela / Iran smashes US blockade on Venezuela with fuel delivery

The axis of resistance is building its network of practical solidarity in the teeth of imperialist opposition.

Yemen / Fake calls for Covid peace in Yemen

Resistance rejects the strong-arm tactic of ‘dialogue under fire and siege’.

Iraq / Occupation at sixes and sevens as resistance gathers pace in Iraq

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t: US rulers face dilemma about how to proceed as their forces face escalating fire.

British politics / Supreme court ruling overturns Israel boycott ban – for now

What can workers do to stop this advance from being rolled back by Parliament?

Yemen / Burying bad news: corona-filled papers ignore Britain’s Yemen invasion

Unreported in British media, British troops have landed in Aden. All that awaits them is the graveyard of imperialist ambitions.

Health / Now 230 workers’ parties call for united effort to fight Covid-19

Progressive parties from around the world have signed a joint letter calling for closer international cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.

Palestine / Deal of the century: US and Israel will reap a bitter harvest

One unintended consequence of the ‘deal’ is a new impetus toward a united front of Palestinian organisations.

Syria / Turkey plays with conflagration in Syria

If Erdogan isn’t careful, he could find himself in outright confrontation not only with Syrian but also Russian armed forces.

Iraq / Did Trump threaten to kill Iraq’s prime minister?

Corporate media have failed to report the allegation that Trump threated the Iraqi PM and people if they refused to follow US orders.

Palestine / The oligarch behind the world holocaust forum attended by presidents and kings

As imperialists shed fake tears over the jewish holocaust, they continue to weaponise alleged ‘antisemitism’ to silence all criticism.

Iran / Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran

Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.

Iran / US imperialism digging its own grave ever faster in the middle east

Slavishly supported by Britain as it does so.

Iran / Britain is acting as the US’s sanctions lapdog; will it follow into all-out war?

If the British imperialists fall in line with the US’s drive to war against Iran, they will share the bitter fruits of humiliation and defeat with their partner in crime.

Iran / Stop the US drive to war with Iran

Red salute to axis of resistance General Soleimani; imperialists out of the middle east!

Iraq / Iraq stands at a crossroads

Who is attempting to manipulate the just anger of the Iraqi people and why?

North Africa and Middle East / Cheap drones and the shifting strategic balance in west Asia

Syria / Losing the war, imperialism degenerates into open piracy in Syria

Trump admits it’s all about the oil and moves to steal as much of it as he can.

Syria / Turkey’s invasion troops trained by USA

The US imperialists have backed 21 of the 28 ‘crazy’ militias leading Turkey’s brutal invasion of northern Syria.

Syria / Syrian army curbs Turkish aggression, restores sovereignty, humiliates USA

Will Kurdish separatists finally learn the lesson that they are entirely disposable to the imperialists?

Syria / Trump pulls US imperialist troops out of Syria – as promised

Why has this huge step towards Syria’s total liberation been greeted with such howls of rage by those on the self-identifying ‘left’?

Trade unions / Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement

TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.

Yemen / Saudi Arabia takes a flogging

The Saudi dog has been beaten in full view of the US lion; and if the lesson is lost on imperialism, it may find itself embroiled in a fight that will undermine its very foundations.

Syria / Turkey and US sign a robbers’ pact over Syria

Kurdish nationalists must choose between unstable US-backed ‘self-rule’ and returning to a united Syrian fold.

Iran / Britain falters onto the warpath against Iran

With so much else on their plate, Britain’s rulers may not be keen to follow the US into yet another doomed war.

Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

Iran / Unions call on British government to send in the gunboats

What would Bob Crow have said to the ITF’s blindly acquiescing in the war games of our imperial masters?

Palestine / Airbrushing history: Israel buries evidence of its racist war crimes

Zionist secret services exposed attempting to ‘construct a more convenient version’ of history.

Syria / Syria looks to its future while US imperialism yearns for the past

After eight years of bloody war aimed at shoring up its control over the middle east, the US has achieved exactly the opposite.

Syria / Shifting sands in the middle east

As Syria advances towards liberation, facts on the ground are pushing Turkey ever closer to Russia, deepening the splits in Nato.

USA / Jacobin-sponsored ‘socialism’ conference stars US-funded regime-change activists

A case study in how imperialism creates a controlled ‘opposition’ to endorse its propaganda lies ‘from the left’.

Iran / False flags flying over Hormuz strait

President Trump has yet to light the fuse on the war his hawks are pushing. If he does, the US will live to regret it.

Palestine / Netanyahu fails to form a government

None of the alternatives is willing to halt Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people.

Iran / False flag in the strait of Hormuz?

Could the extreme hawks in Washington be trying to force Trump’s hand to launch their hoped-for war against Iran?

Venezuela / Venezuela isn’t Syria … but America’s war tactics are the same

The US’s template for demonising a nation it wishes to destroy is becoming all-too familiar.

Syria / Syria fights on

Only total liberation will allow the country to rebuild a tolerant society and solve the problems that imperialist invasion has created.

Libya / Libyan, migrant and European workers all pawns in the great imperial game

The imperialists are desperate to carve up and plunder a way out of the chaos they have created in Libya, but unable to unite around a common strategy.

Palestine / More land annexations by the Israeli scorpion

As the zionists become ever more rabid, they are in reality hastening the date of their own demise.

Syria / Headlines for Baghuz; silence for al-Hol as US tries to keep its foothold in Syria

Imperialist media continue to ignore or distort the plight of civilians trapped in US-controlled refugee camps.

Palestine / Israeli election shock: zionism wins again

The true face of Israeli ‘democracy’ is revealed at the Gaza border fence.

Syria / Trump whistling in the dark over Isis defeat claim

If Daesh is truly defeated on the ground in Syria, it is to the eternal credit of the Syrian army and people, not US imperialism and its hirelings.

British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

Yemen / The tempering of Yemen’s resistance

The Stockholm agreement is a milestone in the long struggle of the Yemeni people for freedom.

Economy / Britain lobbies Germany to sell arms to the Saudis

Crocodile tears over the famine in Yemen are accompanied by strenuous lobbying on behalf of the corporations that are perpetuating it.

Syria / Syria clears away remaining obstacles to liberation

And the more she advances, the harder becomes the imperialists’ task of keeping together the tissue of lies that was woven to justify their barbaric invasion.

Syria / US imperialism finds defeat hard to swallow in Syria

The writing is on the wall: regime-change has failed and US imperialism is heading for the exit.

Syria / Trump makes a lunge for the exit in Syria

A collective howl of rage from the liberal establishment greeted Trump’s announcement, but whether or not they manage to put the brakes on, the war in Syria is lost.

USA / Trump is God’s gift that keeps on giving – but to whom?

Trump’s running of US imperialism is replete with own goals, causing almost as much pain to his own side as to that of his opponents.

North Africa and Middle East / World War One in the middle east and its aftermath

How British and French imperialism carved up the middle east with the backing of their US bankers.

USA / Texas primary teacher loses her job for refusing to sign a pro-Israel oath

Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed advocates and defenders of bourgeois ‘free speech’ stand mutely by.

Syria / Syria carves out her future

Despite all the best-laid plans of US imperialism, the Syrian people are pushing on relentlessly with the liberation of their country.

Syria / US imperialism losing the plot in Syria

The imperialists are raging as strong diplomacy combined with military advances edge the Syrian people ever closer to their final victory.

Yemen / Yemen fights back against US-backed Saudi aggression

Despite raining death and destruction and causing horrific suffering to the Yemeni people, the Saudis are no closer to winning their barbaric war.

World / Imperialists getting desperate as the balance of forces in the world shifts

The US and EU imperialists continue to decline while China and Russia are steadily advancing.

Palestine / Zionism is a racist and antisemitic tool of imperialist policy in the middle east

It is not the anti-zionists who are guilty of antisemitism, but the zionists themselves. Accusations meant to silence opposition to Israel’s fascistic nature must be resisted.

Syria / No cooperation with imperialist war crimes in Syria

Refuse to help with the war effort; full support to the resistance!

Syria / Idlib: Syria stays its hand

With or without the assistance of the west, Syria will rebuild. It is winning the war and will win the peace.

Saudi Arabia / Khashoggi – a murder most foul

Imperialism and its Saudi puppets in the dock.

British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

Syria / Idlib stands on the threshold of liberation

Imperialism desperately seeks to put a spanner in the works to prevent the final rout of the jihadi menace.

British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

Palestine / US-zionist ‘deal of the century’ – a slap in the face for the Palestinians

Trump's much touted 'new deal' for Palestine is no deal at all, and only brings closer the day when Israeli zionism will collapse completely.

Yemen / Saudi puppets launch US bomb that kills 40 school children in Yemen

Imperialist governments feign outrage at their proxies' actions while providing them with the weaponry and diplomatic protection to carry out further massacres.

British politics / Collusion between British security services and jihadis revealed

Further proof that it is in workers’ interests to oppose and challenge the imperialist foreign policy of our ruling class.

British politics / Libyan terrorists nurtured by British imperialism bite the hand that feeds

The terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena was carried out by a young man whose training and radicalisation were facilitated by British secret services.

Syria / Army moves to liberate Idlib as US faces waning authority in the region

Islamic State in Syria has been vanquished, to the great consternation of the imperialists, who now stare complete defeat in the face.

Palestine / Israel officially declares itself to be a racist state

But still thinks people will believe it to be a democracy!

Syria / White Helmets ‘evacuated’ from southwest Syria by Israeli forces

The imperialists have been panicked into action by the realisation that their proxy forces in Syria are not going to last much longer.

Syria / Syria advances to liberation

The Syrian people are standing firm against all the plots and intrigues by which imperialism hopes to cheat them of their victory.

Palestine / The Great March of Return and the zionist murder machine

Israel will act with impunity until decisive collective action is taken against it.

Palestine / The defiance that launched Gaza’s flaming kites cannot be extinguished

Israel's fleet of F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.

Syria / The liberation of eastern Ghouta

Imperialism is fighting a failing endgame.

Palestine / Seventy years since the Palestinian Nakba

After seven decades of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, the zionist forces are as far as ever from achieving their impossible dream.

Iran / Trump rips up the nuclear deal

Will Europe follow suit?

Palestine / Zionist brutality on full display across Palestine

The Palestinians continue to use every means available to them to resist the brutal occupation of their homeland. British workers must play their part.

Leaflets / No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

The timing of the imperialist missile strikes on Syria reveals their hopes of saving the defeated jihadis to inflict further suffering on the Syrian people.

Syria / Imperialist plans for a major war as rats cleared out of eastern Ghouta

British soldiers captured by the Syrian army in Douma give the game away.

Syria / From Afrin to Ghouta, US policy in Syria is backfiring badly

Each new US plan to rescue something from its failed war in Syria has led to further humiliation for the imperialists.

Media / The ‘independent media’ that exist to attack independent media

The enemy’s supposed to hate it: Beeley and Bartlett under attack again.

North Africa and Middle East / Philby senior and his role in British imperial treachery in the middle east

The secret manoeuvrings of British imperialism to take over control of Arabia as the Turkish empire was ousted during WW1.

Syria / Total liberation in sight for Syria

Last-ditch efforts by the terrorist forces and their imperialist backers to turn the tide merely serve to underline the desperate straits to which they have been reduced.

Media / Blunt hatchets: Guardian attempts to discredit real journalism on Syria

As the criminal war against Syria faces an all-out defeat, the guardians of liberal opinion are going all-out to bring independent-minded readers back into line.

Iran / Tehran foils imperialist destabilisation plot

But the government will need to pursue domestic policies favourable to the working masses if it is to strengthen its hand against imperialism.

Palestine / Trump’s proposed embassy move and savage repression of Palestinians

Nothing will stifle the justice of the Palestinian cause.

Media / Media on trial

Independent journalists expose the lies of the liberal imperialist media such as the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

Syria / Syria moves forward

The imperialists are staring a humiliating defeat in the face, and now the demoralised losers are falling out among themselves.

Palestine / One hundred years since the Balfour declaration

A sordid document in the shameful history of British imperialism.

Saudi Arabia / Turmoil in the House of Saud

The days of the feudal autocratic Saudi monarchy are surely numbered.

Syria / The liberation of Deir Ezzor

As the day of total victory draws near for the Syrian patriotic forces, the imperialists and their stooges are casting about for ways to save face as they head for the exit.

North Africa and Middle East / Saudi vs Qatar: thieves fall out

A sign of waning US imperialist power?

Syria / Syria’s liberation in sight

In spite of everything US imperialism, Israel and Arab traitors are doing to try to stand in the way, Syria continues to advance towards victory

Syria / Russian peace proposal takes effect

US imperialism’s continued backing of jihadis becomes clearer by the day.

Palestine / Palestinian hunger strike ends in victory

The brave battle of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails is one more indication that the zionist project is doomed.

Syria / Liberation of Aleppo is reshaping the middle east

The total failure of US imperialist policy in Syria has been made clear at the Astana peace talks.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

Syria / Syrian president: ‘defeat of the terrorists is the west’s defeat’

The following are extensive excerpts from an exclusive interview given by President Bashar al-Assad of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian international television channel RT, first published on 14 December 2016. Proletarian has made minor corrections to the translation for clarity.

British politics / Chilcot report: devastating exposure of the British establishment

Blair hung out to dry in an attempt to divert attention from the continuing crimes of British imperialism.

Turkey / Turkish coup: more fallout from the war in Syria

Whoever turns out to have been behind it, the recent coup attempt may be another blow against US imperialist hegemony in the middle east.

Syria / Patriotic forces consolidate their gains

Confusion and disintegration reign amongst the imperialist-backed ‘opposition’ as Syria and her allies strengthen their position.

Palestine / Hedy Epstein, rights activist and holocaust survivor, remembered

Hedy Epstein, known and loved by the Palestinian people and their friends and supporters for her courageous work for solidarity and justice, has died aged 91.

Syria / Patriotic forces advancing

As Russian forces pull back, the jihadis continue to suffer defeat after defeat.

Saudi Arabia / The march of the Saudi regime towards its inevitable doom

The mediaeval autocracy is fuelling the very forces that will bring its decrepit rule to an end.

Iraq / The axis of resistance and the liberation of Ramadi

Key Iraqi city has been freed from IS occupation despite the presence of imperialist forces.

Syria / Resistance turns the tide

Forward movement on the diplomatic front has only been achieved as a result of the heroic struggle waged by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies.

Syria: Imperialism on the back foot

Russia’s fraternal aid to Syria continues to expose the false narrative of western politicians and media regarding the fight against fundamentalist terrorism.

Lebanon / The last thing Lebanon needs is a phony ‘Arab Spring’

Regime change under the present conditions would be a disaster for Lebanon.

Editorial: Russia backs the Syrian people

Syria / Imperialism raises the stakes in Syria

Meanwhile, crude attempts to manipulate public opinion proliferate.

Syria / Hypocritical imperialist double-dealing in Syria

While local stooges are working overtime to help imperialism topple the Syrian government, it is the Syrian army that truly combats Islamic State, not the RAF.

Yemen / Imperialist-backed war continues in Yemen

A token ceasefire cannot disguise the vicious aggression that is leading the Arab world’s poorest country towards a catastrophe.

Syria / Idlib setback: imperialism crows too soon

US imperialism’s ‘islamic’ psychopaths cannot win hearts and minds.

Syria / MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

Britain's secret services and reactionary islamists united against Syria.

Egypt / Egypt: The overthrow of political Islam was the work of the masses themselves

With the exposure of the Muslim Brotherhood as a false friend of the people, all eyes are now on the army to see whether it – or any part of it – can be of use in the people’s continuing quest for freedom.

Iran / Iran stands tall

Broad-based international support is strengthening Iran’s hand against the warmongers.

Palestine / Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV

Drama breaks new ground on mainstream TV by portraying some of the brutality that characterises the state of Israel and shattering its claims to be a democracy.