Jubilant crowds on the streets of Damascus have been celebrating what until recently seemed unthinkable — the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s hated regime. The Syrian army collapsed while the regime’s over-burdened allies in Moscow and Tehran could only look on, hanging their erstwhile ally out to dry. The lightning offensive by Turkish and US-backed right-wing […]
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“Interim” capitalist government prepares clamp down The mass struggle in Bangladesh is at a decisive point. A month after the mass movement forced Prime Minister Hasina to resign and go into exile, a confrontation is building up between a rising wave of workers’ strikes and the new government, representing the capitalist owners of multinational businesses. […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of the ISA International Executive Following seven months of a Russian military offensive which has made limited advances, and almost 2.5 years of all-out war, the inter-imperialist character of the conflict in Ukraine is deepening, as is the risk of escalation. US and Western imperialism are reinforcing their commitments on […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The expected Ukrainian spring offensive against Russian occupation forces is getting closer. Preparations have been underway since November. Since last autumn, tens of thousands of soldiers have died in World War I style fighting, especially around the city of Bakhmut. Russian forces have captured […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Christmas Eve, 24 December, marked 10 months since Putin’s Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. For the people of Ukraine, it has meant hell on earth, currently a dark, cold winter with constant missile attacks. There is no sign that the fighting is nearing […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The offensive by Ukrainian forces continues and the crisis of Putin’s war deepens. On Friday 30 September, Moscow declared that the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are “forever” part of Russia, as a result of the fake “referenda”. But already on the […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). A Long and Deadly Conflict It is now six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. With no end in sight, the result today is over 50,000, perhaps 100,000 dead, 14 million displaced, and cities in Ukraine totally destroyed. The whole world has changed, politically and […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The war in Ethiopia has entered a third phase close to a year after its start, with a new offensive launched by the federal army against Tigray. The human consequences of the war are disastrous, with the country facing the worst famine globally for […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Reply to Pro-Authoritarian ‘Lefts’ In the second of our two-part article on Chinese imperialism, we wrote: “The huge network of concentration camps, disappearances, torture, rape and more in Xinjiang, directed against the Uighur and mostly Muslim population, are not made up, but are the harsh […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of ISA’s International Executive. This is the second in a two-part article by Per-Åke Westerlund first published by Chinaworker.info looking at the rise of Chinese imperialism. The first part China’s state capitalist imperialism is here. As the imperialist conflict between the US and China has sharpened in recent years, some […]
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