The Socialist Party of Great Britain
Part of the World Socialist Movement
November 6, 2018
The organised slaughter has begun. It is now clear that this was always the intention of Bush, the nominal head of US capitalism, and his British counterpart, Blair. They cynically allowed the diplomatic wrangling to go on at the UN so as to buy them time to get their forces massing on the borders of …
“What the Pentagon has done with this is sound military conceptual planning.” This was the US Secretary Colin Powell commenting on the leaked 50 page Pentagon report entitled: “Nuclear Posture Review”—proof, if ever it was needed, that the lunatics have finally taken over the asylum. What was so special about this “Review”? It contained contingency …
Count down to 9 and 10 March. This is when the poverty-stricken and battling Zimbabweans will bravely trudge to the polling booths to cast their votes for whoever they think is the best candidate. To most, this will mean having the required capabilities to deal with the current political and economic crisis engulfing the country. …
The chain of over 13,000 islands stretching 3,600 miles from Malaya to Northern Australia have a long and chequered history. Evidence suggests humans resided on some of these islands over 50,000 years ago. From 3000 BC to 500 BC immigrants from South China mixed with, or displaced, the original Melanesians. Indian influence from AD 700 …
The attacks on the US leave many questions unresolved. What will the final death toll be? Who carried out the attack and what will be the US response? Why was the attack carried out? Any answers at the moment are purely speculative. Osama bin Laden is widely believed to be behind the terror attacks. He …
Very occasionally, the bourgeois media cut to the reality of how capitalism operates. Hidden away on the comment pages of The Guardian (London U.K.), writer and green George Monbiot provides a compelling case for how Caspian Sea oil was a major factor in the Kosovan war after all. With one eye on an article by …
We are approaching the 2001 presidential and general elections and the political situation remains tense. Unemployment, poverty and the lack of viable education and health care has bred outright social discontent and resentment throughout Zambia. President Frederick Chiluba’s M.M.D. government is still in power and commands majority support in Parliament. The opposition parties remain weak …
George Bush sets out his intent for a new approach to U.S.A. foreign policy. Rarely have Americans elected to office a president as impetuous, callous and as indifferent to the well-being of others as George W Bush, who even as a presidential candidate, signing more death warrants than any Governor in history, made no secret …
What follows is a text submitted by Crifford Marathodi , a W.S.M. member in South Africa, with an introduction by Ben Malcom of the Socialist Party. Introduction This article, focusing on certain strands of the South African “Left” (identified as belonging to the “Black Consciousness” tendency which evolved in parallel with the A.N.C. and its …
The impact of free market capitalism on Zambian politics. The wind of change is blowing across the African continent. This wind of change depicts a phenomenon of political coups which have swept through many African countries which had embraced the multi-party parliamentary system of government. There is strife and bitter in-fighting between elected governments and …