IV571 - August 2022

“Our main goal now is to win this war. We understand that it can be protracted, and it is not a quick process, and there are hopes for it. What is critical to victory is not to let the war and all the terrible events in Ukraine disappear from the world’s agenda.”

Donald Trump still dominates the Republican Party, but he and his party are vulnerable. Last week in the Republican Party primary in Wyoming, Trump’s candidate, Harriet Hageman, trounced Liz Cheney, Trump’s most vocal and important critic in the Republican Party, winning by 40 points.

“The impersonal and destructive logic of capitalism is the main cause of poverty and ecological crisis.”

Phil Hearse looks ahead to a bleak Autumn and argues the left must mobilise and shout together ’Enough is Enough’.

Devastating floods in Pakistan - An urgent call for financial solidarity

A government that is not capable of providing security to the nation must be replaced – democratically – by one that can.

“Nuclear war – along with climate change and pandemics — represents one of the existential threats facing humanity. The very future of our species could be ended in the event of a full-scale nuclear war.”

“The abortion ban solves no social problems that most of the electorate actually understands as such. Forced births have consequences that Republican state legislators have been unwilling to name or confront.”

“On behalf of comrades of the IUSF and MONLAR, the Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya appeals to the international labour movement and all those in solidarity with the people’s struggle in Sri Lanka, to launch actions for the immediate release of all political prisoners, for the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and for the democratic rights of the peoples of Sri Lanka including freedoms of expression, association, and assembly.”

“Without independence governments in Cymru will be unable to enact many laws that will improve the lives of ordinary working people because Westminster will almost certainly reject them if they are inimical to the political views of the governing party while laws developed in Westminster will be imposed on Cymru – as happens today despite devolution.”