Corbyn to May: ‘Do the right thing and resign’

by Lamiat Sabin

Morning Star | January 16, 2019

Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during the debate for the government no confidence motion in the House of Commons today

JEREMY CORBYN drove a stake into the heart of the “zombie” Tory government today, declaring that Prime Minister Theresa May’s “Frankenstein deal” was now “officially dead.”

He said the PM should do “the right thing” and resign after losing both “confidence and supply” in Parliament and let the people of Britain decide on the way ahead with a general election.

The EU and it’s cronies are undemocratic to the core

A Morning Star Editorial | January 17, 2019

EU president Donald Tusk Photo: Platforma Obywatelska RP/Creative Commons

WHEN Donald Tusk, the former Polish prime minister, was annointed for a second term as president of the EU Council the Polish foreign minister said: “We know now that it [the EU] is a union under Berlin’s diktat.”

This provides us with a useful insight into the divisions, fissures and contradictions that are mostly hidden behind the shiny facade of harmony that so beguiles liberal (and some left-wing) opinion.

UK: Students occupy SOAS’s famous library in protest at staff cuts

by Phil Miller

Morning Star | January 16, 2019

SOAS students inside the library

FIFTY students at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) staged an overnight occupation of their famous library in protest against savage cuts to staffing.

The action came after university managers apparently threatened to slash a quarter of the librarians, including highly trained archivists.

Los Angeles teachers stage first strike in 30 years demanding city invests in public education

by Ben Coweles

Morning Star | January 15, 2019

Thousands of teachers and supporters march in the rain during a rally yesterday in Los Angeles

MORE than 30,000 striking teachers flooded the rainy streets of downtown Los Angeles on Monday demanding the city properly invest in its educators and schools.

The strike, organised by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union, is the first time teachers have walked out the classroom in LA since 1989.

The Homelessness Crisis Deepens Across North America

by John Clarke

The Bullet | December 11, 2018

As an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto, I am only too aware of how much worse the homeless crisis has become in this city over the last three years. As a result of community pressure, City Hall issues a daily shelter census. In a whole series of ways, the official process understates the problem but the picture that emerges is, nonetheless, quite dreadful. In the largest and wealthiest city in Canada, the homeless shelters are bursting at the seams.

“Holy War” and Heroin in Kosovo and the Caucasus

by F. William Engdahl

Dear Readers,

For this installment of my gratis newsletter I want to share with you a chapter from my book, The Lost Hegemon. The book today is especially topical as in a recent Washington Post interview, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman admitted that during the Cold War at the request of Washington, that Saudi Arabian oil money was used to finance the spread of ultra-conservative Saudi Wahhabite Islam around the world from Afghanistan to Bosnia to Egypt.

Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US

by Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames

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The (Orwellian-named) Integrity Initiative has mobilized an international disinformation campaign across Europe. Now, with government and right-wing foundation money, this massive “political smear unit” is infiltrating the US, report Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames.

Abombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after hacked internal communications exposed a covert U.K. state military-intelligence psychological warfare operation targeting its own citizens and political figures in allied NATO countries under the cover of fighting “Russian disinformation.”

The leaked documents revealed a secret network of spies, prominent journalists and think-tanks colluding under the umbrella of a group called “Integrity Initiative” to shape domestic opinion—and to smear political opponents of the right-wing Tory government, including the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbin.

The American media revives the methods of McCarthyism

by Patrick Martin

The Deep State and its media shills keep gunning for Trump, but, conceivably, they represent even a worse threat to humanity than the current president.

n the wake of the one-two punch of articles in the New York Times and Washington Post suggesting that President Trump is an agent of the Russian government—or to be precise, that the FBI suspected that he was a Russian agent and opened a counterintelligence investigation (as the Times reports), and that Trump is concealing his private dealings with Putin as president (as the Postclaims)—the American media has gone into a McCarthyite hysteria.

Venezuela: Platform For Peasant Struggle Holds Anti-Imperialist March Against International Aggressions

Tatuy TV/Venezuelanalysis.com | January 14, 2019

Merida-Duluth, January 14, 2019 (tatuytv.org/venezuelanalysis.com) In the region of “Sur del Lago,” located between the Venezuelan states of Mérida and Zulia, an anti-imperialist peasant march was held amidst the rising tensions in the lead up to January 10th swearing in of President Nicolás Maduro. This mobilization was organized by local, autonomous peasant, communal and revolutionary organizations of the National Platform for Peasant Struggle, in order to demonstrate rejection for the intensifying foreign aggression against their nation.

One, Two, Many Rosa Luxemburgs

by Ines Schwerdtner

The Wire | January 17, 2019

Rosa Luxemburg. Credit: Flckr

Hardly any figure in the history of socialism represents such an impressive combination of sharp-minded theoretician and rhetorically explosive politician as did Rosa Luxemburg. Her almost daily newspaper articles, her speeches at party and trade union meetings, her letters and theoretical writings all show us as much.