Cuba’s National Assembly has approved 176 economic reforms in what commentators are calling the most significant changes to the island’s economic model since the revolution of 1959. Western media have predictably rushed to present the reforms as evidence of socialism’s…
Tag: Imperialism
The resignation of Defence Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces Minister Al Carns has thrown a spotlight on a growing dispute inside the British ruling class: how much should be spent on maintaining Britain’s military power abroad? Healey resigned after…
Britain’s working class is once again being told to pay for an imperialist war it never chose, never voted for, and never benefited from. Household energy prices are set to rise by 13% in July after wholesale gas costs surged…
The acquittal of former British paratrooper David James Cleary, known publicly as Soldier F, is not merely a legal incident isolated in time. It is the latest affirmation of a centuries-long relationship of domination in which the British state has…
The killing of Agnes Wanjiru in Kenya is not an “isolated crime,” nor is it a matter of individual moral failing. It is the inevitable expression of the class interests that dominate imperialism. Agnes was a 21-year-old mother in Nanyuki,…
A different explanation of extraction Nowadays it’s quite common to hear people complain that everything seems to be political. While your boomer dad is probably worrying too much about people living the way that makes them happy, the statement is…
