On Tuesday September 11, 2001 the world was changed forever by the most devastating terrorist attack in history. 2,996 people (including the 19 terrorists) were killed and many more injured after two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre towers in the heart of New York’s financial district. Just 18 minutes after the first explosion […]
Read MoreThe first casualty of war is truth. This is also the case of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Marxists need to be able to cut through the fog of lies and war propaganda and analyse the real reasons behind the conflict; what has caused it; and the real interests that lie behind the excuses and […]
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By Miles Lacey Above: Taliban Insurgents enter Kabul, Afghanistan (Source: The Guardian) On August 15th, 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban insurgents the United States and their Western imperialist allies had been fighting against since November 2001. The spectacle of thousands of Afghan people and Western civilian and military personnel trying to frantically board […]
Read MoreBy the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board For most of the post-war period the Pacific region was treated like a United States lake. As the colonial territories of Australia, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States became independent between 1962 and 1994 they tended to side with the Western powers, with the […]
Read Moreby Rufus Tyler The 1981 PATCO air traffic controllers’ strike was one of the largest strikes by federal employees in the United States. This strike had ramifications that would be felt world wide by the working classes, especially in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. It would also mark the ultimate betrayal by a man […]
Read MoreBy Miles Lacey Samoa is a small South Pacific country made up of two major islands – Upolu and Savai’i – and a few minor ones. It has a total area of 2347 square kilometres. That is half the size of the Auckland region. The population of Samoa is approximately 202,000 people with about 37,000 […]
Read MoreUnited States soldiers with prisoners in Grenada: 1983. Source: www.thoughtco.com By Rufus Tyler “There was a rebel village five clicks down the road. Word came down from top brass: make it disappear. We…we didn’t know any better. We were…we were kids. I watched myself pick up the flamethrower…I just…went…off.” – SNL Introduction to Puppetry skit, […]
Read MoreFlooding in Brazil 2020. Source: CGTN By Rufus Tyler “State of the environment and the Socialist versus the Capitalist response to It”. This article will discuss the extent of the problem by covering two main points:(a) Anthropogenic (man-made) climate change and its adverse effects and (b) the effect of global warming […]
Read MoreSoviet tanks roll into Prague in Czechoslovakia on August 21st, 1968. Copyright: www.historytoday.com By Rufus Tyler 1968 was a turbulent year for the bourgeois. There was widespread discontent in France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Pakistan, and widespread anti-war protests in the English-speaking countries. 1968 marked the high tide of capitalism, there had been […]
Read MoreBy Rufus Tyler Portugal is a small country in Southwestern Europe with about 10.8 million people (2017 estimate) the median age is 42.2. It’s about a third the size of New Zealand. It borders Spain and the Atlantic Ocean. Since joining the then European Community in 1986 the economy has become increasingly […]
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