The Resolution Foundation has urged Chancellor John Healey to prepare to raise taxes on middle earners to help finance Labour’s military expansion. Its economists argue that meeting the government’s defence pledge would require another £28bn a year, and that average…
Andy Burnham has pledged “100 percent” support for Ukraine as British-made drones strike deeper into Russia, hitting energy facilities and civilian targets while doing little to alter the course of the war. Asked in Wolverhampton about Moscow’s warning that Britain’s…
The United States has added more than 40 Chinese entities to its so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List”, extending its campaign of economic warfare against China under the familiar cover of concern for human rights. China’s Ministry of…
Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems have raised their profit forecasts as governments across the capitalist world prepare to pour even more public money into weapons, surveillance systems and nuclear submarines. Rolls-Royce now expects to make an underlying operating profit of between…
An American pilot has been killed in West Papua after fighters from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) attacked and burned a civilian aircraft in Indonesia’s Highland Papua province. TPNPB spokesperson Sebby Sambom identified the pilot as Nicholas F….
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…
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,…
