A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. Protests and uprisings have been sweeping throughout South and South-East Asia in the recent period. At our WIN meetings we have heard on-the-spot reports from comrades in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines. But the dominant power in the region is India, ruled for almost twelve years now by a … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2025
The Trump Speech As Read By a British Woman
by Richard Mellor 11-28-25 See it HERE. I have to say, this is brilliant. He’s talking a lot about Kemala Harris as well. But the more I think about it, the important conclusions we must draw from it. Aside from the comments, comedic as they may be, especially read by an older English woman with a middle class accent and a smile, they reveal just how unhinged Donald Trump really … [Read more...]
The US Arms Industry: A Gift For Investors From the US Taxpayer
Blog of Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired, HEO/GED, 11-25-25 US President, Donald Trump, the man who has negotiated the end to at least eight wars, some say nine but the genocide in Gaza and Palestine in general is not a war, has agreed to sell America’s most lethal weapon, the F-35 jet fighter, along with 300 tanks to the family run business known as Saudi Arabia. “We’re … [Read more...]
Trump: Fortunes and misfortunes of a Pyromaniac Peacemaker!
by Yorgos Mitralias The Trump-Mamdani meeting at the White House was not only “strange” and “surprising” given everything that had preceded it. Above all, it was highly instructive for the future of both protagonists. And the first lesson is that Mamdani clearly emerged stronger! Why? Because Trump's effusive displays of friendship towards him have caused confusion among Trump's New York … [Read more...]
THE NEW YORK MAYORAL ELECTION
WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. The election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York has aroused hopes of resistance not only to the Trump regime but also to the Democratic establishment. Mamdani won a decisive majority over Andrew Cuomo, the candidate jointly supported by both the Republicans and the Democratic hierarchy, on a platform including a freeze on rents, free bus travel, … [Read more...]
THE NATURE OF THE TRUMP REGIME
A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. In the ten months since Donald Trump returned to office as president of the USA, his assumption of extra-constitutional powers and suppression of democratic rights has gone way beyond expectations. Paramilitary troops have patrolled major cities, suspected migrants snatched from the streets, half a million deported, constitutional rights suspended, … [Read more...]
The Nobel Peace Lie: Venezuela and the Endless Cycle of Imperial Plunder
by Alan Browne The script is familiar, yet the stage is newly dressed. The recent reinstatement of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector, coupled with the Western media’s anointing of opposition figure María Corina Machado as a democratic savior, is not a break from history, but a direct continuation of it. Machado, touted as a future leader should the Maduro government fall, has … [Read more...]
The Trade Union Movement in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Background The history of South Africa is one of colonial wars of conquests /genocide and slavery in the 17th to 18th century followed by the indentured labour of the Indian workers (sugar estates and mines) and the Chinese (building the railways) together with African wage labour in the 19th / 20th century. Racial hostility, prejudices and labour exploitation of the past centuries are still … [Read more...]
Towards the inevitable clash to the death between Trump and Mamdani!
By Yorgos Mitralias Young, intelligent, talented, energetic, handsome, charismatic, a very good speaker, a hard worker, a skilled communicator, and so on. The media in our countries are not wrong when they attribute all these virtues to Zohran Mamdani. Zohran is all of these things. But, on the other hand, they are seriously mistaken when they attribute Mamdani's electoral triumphs solely to … [Read more...]
SOUTH AFRICA AFTER APARTHEID: THE TRADE UNIONS TODAY
This week we began our discussion by acknowledging the life and work of our South African comrade DAVID HEMSON who sadly passed away this week. See the discussion HERE. In the years of struggle by the South African working class for trade union rights and liberation, its rallying slogan was "Organise...or Starve!". Yet in today’s post-apartheid South Africa, unionised workers earning the … [Read more...]