By Roger Silverman, April 2025 The world is reeling with shock and disbelief. Its dominant power has abruptly abandoned eight decades of economic orthodoxy, diplomatic consensus, strategic alliances and liberal pretensions. At home this means the shutdown of entire government agencies, mass redundancies, defiance of judicial rulings, incarceration, deportations, concentration camps; … [Read more...]
React before it’s too late
Against the Brown International of Putin-Trump-Musk-Netanyahu! by Yorgos Mitralias United but desperately alone! United in their slaughter, their bloodshed and their loneliness. And united, too, in the same relentless resistance for life, liberty and national self-determination. The martyred Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples united...against the same executioners united. Indeed, wasn't it … [Read more...]
Ukraine endgame: from proxy war to imperialist carve-up
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica 15 February 2025 (Republished from Counterfire) There was never going to be justice for Ukraine, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica On Wednesday 12 February, Donald Trump announced he had spoken to Vladimir Putin and that peace talks to end the Ukraine War would start now. The announcement left the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, and European states blindsided. … [Read more...]
THE RETURN OF DONALD TRUMP
by Roger Silverman Trump’s return to power marks the beginning of a new era. From his first day in office, he has broken with an eighty-year long consensus. He has released hundreds of far-right thugs from the Capitol riots; shut down entire government agencies; demanded the resignations of 2.3 million government employees (65,000 of whom have already accepted a derisory bribe of eight … [Read more...]
IS THE WORLD ECONOMY ON THE BRINK?
A WIN meeting February 2025. See the recording HERE. This week we once again invited the leading Marxist economist Michael Roberts, publisher of the widely acclaimed blog The Next Recession, to speak to us on prospects for the world economy, including these vital questions… · Hundreds of billions of dollars are currently being invested in … [Read more...]
Michael Roberts – Economic Forecast 2025: Roaring or Tepid
It’s time to make some forecasts on what will happen to the world economy and its major countries in 2025. Many people reckon that it is waste of time making such forecasts as they are never accurate and quite often the opposite happens. Of course, forecasts are wrapped in error, given the many variables involved that drive economies. Weather forecasts are still difficult to make and … [Read more...]
The Syrian people have freed themselves from the Assad regime, but its campist supporters pretend to ignore it…
by Yorgos Mitralias Thousands and thousands of Syrians of all ages dancing and embracing, weeping and singing, waving the country's new flag and celebrating the end of tyranny, in the center of Syrian cities but also in Paris, Istanbul and Moscow, in Berlin or Stockholm, everywhere in the world where the almost 7 million Syrians driven from their country since 2011 have taken refuge. And … [Read more...]
The fascist threat is becoming clearer as Milei calls for the creation of the Brown International!
by Yorgos Mitralias “It is our moral duty to defend the legacy of our western civilisation. The West is in danger...We must stand together, establishing channels of cooperation throughout the world. We could call ourselves a right-wing international, a network of mutual assistance made up of all those interested in spreading the ideas of freedom around the world". This call for the … [Read more...]
Facts for Working People Blog – Gaza
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, HEO/GED retired, USA. GAZA: WHEN A GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING SILENCE IS COMPLICITY The savagery that we see in the video, occurred, not in opposition to US policy and the Biden/Harris Administration, but with its full cooperation. If you are silent on this in your everyday life then you too are complicit, not at the same level for sure, but you are not … [Read more...]
Facts for Working People Blog – USA
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired, USA The issue Wolff raises here I think is basically correct. The end of the domination of US imperialism on a world scale is on the way. Gone is the period of the Best and the Brightest as Halbertam’s book was titled. Look at the decisions the US ruling class has made including and since the Vietnam War; Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and perhaps the … [Read more...]