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Ukrainian crisis spiralling out of control
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- Published: Tuesday, 15 April 2014 06:06
- Written by Francesco Merli
Ukrainian president Oleksandr Turchynov declared yesterday in a live televised address that a full-scale operation involving the army will be launched to regain control over Eastern Ukraine. Whether it is a bluff or a real threat, which the Ukrainian government has the will and means to enforce, is yet to be seen. But today, the same Turchynov has declared that the Kiev government is not against holding a referendum in Eastern Ukraine and set a date for May 25. Meanwhile, there is talk of Kiev asking for UN peacekeepers. This all shows the insoluble mess the Ukrainian authorities have got themselves into.
Donetsk regional admin building (City Hall) this morning, Soviet flag flying (PIC: Graham W Phillips)
Russia, Ukraine and the West: Will there be war?
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- Published: Tuesday, 04 March 2014 06:12
- Written by Alan Woods
As Ukraine slides deeper into chaos, the sound of war drums gets ever louder. On Saturday President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament's authority to send the Russian army, not just into Crimea but also into Ukraine itself.
Nelson Mandela dies – For genuine liberation, fight capitalism!
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- Published: Saturday, 07 December 2013 18:53
- Written by Ben Morken in South Africa
Nelson Mandela is no more. At about 20:50PM on Thursday, 5 December 2013 Nelson Rohishlahla Mandela passed away peacefully after a long illness. The news was announced by President Jacob Zuma to a worldwide audience. He was 95 years old.
Where is Ukraine going?
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- Published: Tuesday, 04 March 2014 06:02
- Written by Alan Woods
The dramatic events in Ukraine have led to the fall of Yanukovych. But in reality this is not the end of the drama but only the possible end of its second act. In the moment of truth nobody was prepared to risk their lives to defend a regime that had completely rotted from the inside to the point where one energetic shove sufficed to bring it crashing to the ground. Power fell into the hands of the opposition like an overripe apple falling from a tree. The question is: what will they do with it?
Photo by Sasha Maksymenko
The permanent slump – an organic crisis of capitalism
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- Published: Saturday, 07 December 2013 18:46
- Written by Adam Booth
It has often been noted that the serious bourgeois analysts frequently arrive at the same conclusion as the Marxists, albeit with a slight delay. Nowhere has this aphorism been more aptly demonstrated than in a recent article by Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning economist, entitled “A Permanent Slump”.