Early Saturday morning the USA aided by its ally Israel launched an attack on Iran. This murderous bombing and missile assault comes just a day after the third round of US-Iran negotiations over Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. This is unprovoked aggression and the USA and Israel are the aggressors. This is not the first time the USA and Israel have attacked Iran, in June 2025 they launched … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2026
Epstein’s Climb to the Top. How He Got There
From Joshua Hale on FB List compiled by Whitney Web Epstein had no degree, no credentials, no public business wins, yet he controlled a billionaire's fortune, owned a private island, and had access to presidents. His resume doesn't explain his wealth. So what does? The answer is in the people who built him. Epstein didn't climb his way to power. He was handed it—by a sequence of … [Read more...]
International Women’s Day 2026 – Lydia Becker – Lancashire Suffragist
from Amazing Accrington Hyndburn Borough Council has commissioned a short history documentary in recognition of less well known pioneering Manchester born suffragist Lydia Becker (1827 - 1890). It traces her life in Altham Lancashire and her inspiring journey from a young girl with a passion for botany to a leading voice in the women’s suffrage movement. See the film from Amazing … [Read more...]
THE ASIAN YOUTH UPRISING: AN UPDATE FROM NEPAL
Win discussion February 2026. See it HERE. A wave of revolt is shaking Asia. Last week’s 300 million-strong general strike in India - the biggest workers’ mobilisation in world history - follows the aragalaya in Sri Lanka in 2022, the July revolution in Bangladesh in 2024, and a series of massive youth uprisings in just the last few months in Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Iran. The … [Read more...]
From one Munich to another –
But what security are they talking about? by Yorgos Mitralias At first glance, everything separates the Munich Conference of 1938 from the Munich Security Conference of 2026. The former saw Czechoslovakia sacrificed on the altar of Hitler's appeasement policy by the “great democracies” of Europe, which allowed this “appeased” Hitler to unleash the Second World War by invading Poland a year … [Read more...]
Mamdani ‘s Rapid Capitulation to Big Capital
Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired. HEO/GED. 20 February 2026See Facts for Working People HERE. It doesn’t take long does it! We have seen this so many times by now. Mamdani’s election was uplifting but this lesser evilism has finally lost any meaning and it’s experiences like this that has led over time to 100 million or more people opting out of the electoral process altogether. Many … [Read more...]
India’s historic strike challenges Modi’s pro-US, pro-corporate laws – INDUSTRIAL SHUTDOWN- 300 million strike – the biggest general strike in world history!
Published in The Canary, 17 February 2026. On 12 February, a joint platform of 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in India organised a nationwide strike to protest the Modi government’s anti-labour, pro-corporatisation, and pro-USA policies. Those organising the general strike include the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the All … [Read more...]
BEHIND THE IRAN/US CONFLICT
A WIN discussion February 2025. See it HERE. The recent mass protests in Iran have been brutally suppressed by the regime with more than ten thousand killed. How has the Iranian economy been reduced to such low levels in a country with so many natural resources and a relatively educated workforce? The answer is two-fold… First it is the result of the failures of successive corrupt regimes, … [Read more...]
THE GREENLAND CRISIS
A WIN meeting February 2026. Watch it HERE. The sharp crisis over the status of Greenland brings into sharp focus several key issues: the changed strategy of US imperialism; the rift in the NATO alliance; the global climate crisis; the new technology; preparations for world war… The melting of the Arctic has opened up the potential for new maritime defence routes, military surveillance, and the … [Read more...]
The Struggle against Mandelson
Capitalism is still showing its capacity for crises of overproduction – overproduction of crises that is. Sleaze and scandal are now a staple on the news circuit and not a day seems to go by without some bombshell revelations rocking the institutions of the capitalist regime. The monarchy, the Church, the police, parliament. In fact, everywhere you look the pillars of the establishment are … [Read more...]