The Guardian • Britain
The [UK] PM is giving bosses, not workers, the right to “exercise judgement” on COVID safety
Boris Johnson is a gambler and lifting remaining COVID restrictions this month is a gamble with unpredictable consequences.
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Issue #2083
GLOBAL BRIEFS
RUSSIA: Russia’s top election authority has declared Nikolay Kharitonov eligible to run for president in March elections. He will be representing the Communist Party of...
Read moreA day in the death of British justice
The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.
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Issue #2112
Britain, fascism, and the collapse of capitalism
The riots in Britain have captured headlines around the world. News screens have shown the damage, the boarded-up mosques, the burned-out police cars. The rallies...
Read moreBritain’s local elections will see largest number of communist candidates since 1980s
On May 6, voters in Britain will go to the polls in local elections that will see the largest number of candidates representing the Communist Party (CPB) since the early 1980s.
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Issue #2061
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: The number of construction workers killed in site accidents rose sharply from 29 to 45 last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has...
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Issue #2129
GLOBAL BRIEFS
VENEZUELA: The International Anti-fascist World Festival took place in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The 2,000 delegates from 125 countries called for consolidation of international...
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Issue #2067
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SPAIN: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s candidate for the speaker of the Congress of Deputies won the vote for the position in Sanchez’s first trial in...
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Issue #2035
DINGO
The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...
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Issue #2078
Colonial powers give “regrets” – not apologies
Recently the imperialist nations of Britain, Spain, and Germany, have expressed “regrets” for the atrocities they committed, but failed to acknowledge that the true horror...
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2095
GLOBAL BEIEFS
PERSIAN GULF: Countries in the Persian Gulf including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait have reportedly told the United States not to...
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Issue #2082
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MALI: Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have endorsed plans to create a federation, following a two-day meeting in Bamako, Mali’s capital. The decision was announced...
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Issue #2053
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: The Indian state of Karnataka held the most crucial state election before parliamentary elections due in 2024. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered...
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Issue #2029
Communists and the trade unions with Alex Gordon (RMT/CPB)
On the 15th October the NSW state committee hosted a talk by National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) President and leading member...
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Issue #2076
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ARGENTINA: Argentina’s Economy Minister Segio Massa and the leader of the far-right Liberty Advances party, Javier Milei have advanced to the 2nd round of the...
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Issue #2168
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Rodrigo Paz, a right-wing senator, won Bolivia’s presidential election with 54% of the vote and told supporters in his victory speech: “Today Bolivia can...
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Issue #2078
DINGO
“Violence against women is a national crisis,” says Kate Fitz-Gibbon from Monash University’s Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. “These deaths represent the tip of...
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Issue #2057
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NORWAY: A new report commissioned by the Norwegian police into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBT Pride festival last year blasted Norway’s domestic security...
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Issue #2056
DINGO
British PM Rishi Sunak has announced that two further barges will house around 1000 asylum-seekers off Britain’s coast. In a speech in Dover, Kent, Sunak...
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Issue #2110
DINGO
This week’s target of US interventions and aggression is Indonesia 1957-58: President Sukarno, like Egypt’s Abdel Nasser, was the kind of Third World leader the...
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