Saturday, 8 October 2005 — Socialist Worker
This article is over 19 years, 6 months old
The chaos in Basra has led to calls for troops to withdraw from Iraq. John Game looks at parallels with Britain’s exit from Aden in 1967
Demonstrators carrying a picture of Egypt’s leader Nasser take to the streets of Aden demanding independence in the 1960s
These developments have also led to public splits emerging inside the establishment over the future of the British troops in the region.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 — Socialist Worker
This article is over 15 years, 3 months old
British forces killed hundreds in their war for the port of Aden, in today’s South Yemen. Western interference continues today causing bloodshed and division as Yemen becomes the new front in the ‘war on terror’, writes John Newsinger
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Tuesday, 6 May 2025 — Jamarl Thomas
Planned Failure: US – Russia Iran Talks, Moscow Sends Russian Commandos to Burkina Faso To Protect Ibrahim Traore After Foiled Coup Attempts By Disgruntled West And Internal Dissidents, 2.2M Starved Gazans Are Forced To Cramped Israeli Camp With Gaza Coming Under Indefinite Occupation.
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 — Morning Star Online
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage and party chairman Zia Yusuf, during a Reform UK press conference at Royal Horseguards Hotel in London, March 17, 202
WE HAVE been warned about the real agenda of Reform UK following that party’s substantial gains in last week’s English local elections.
2 May 2025 — Peoples World
MOSCOW—Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on the horizon.
| Reading, UK | 18 March 2025 | Citizen Arrest Network
A Citizens Arrest was made on Thames Water Chief Executive Officer, Chris Weston, at the company’s head office in Reading. A group of women carrying out the arrest, entered the lobby of the building and called for Weston and Alastair Cochran to come down to be issued with draft indictment papers and an evidence dossier. The women notified the police, requesting they attend the scene to arrest the two Thames Water executives. The police then attended the scene. The police reviewed the women’s evidence dossier and are now investigating their case against the Thames Water executives.
Monday, 5 May 2025 — Mintpress News
The Yemeni Armed Forces impose an aerial blockade of Israel, reacting to its decision to expand the Gaza war
Following a successful missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport, Yemen has vowed to up the pressure on the Israelis as they continually expand their assault on Gaza. This latest move threatens to deal a major blow to Israeli tourism.
Monday, 5 May 2025 — Geopolitics Live
The UK government has unveiled a £50M ($66.6M) scheme to ‘fight climate change’ via experiments dimming the Sun, from the release of reflective substances mimicking natural aerosols to the use of seawater sprays to ‘brighten clouds’, increasing their reflectivity.
Monday, 5 May 2025 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Yemen just put Trump & Israel on notice, shutting down Israel’s biggest airport with a hypersonic missile that has the world in SHOCK. Ben Norton & KJ Noh join to break down what this means as the US under Trump escalates its war maneuvers on far bigger rising powers: China, Russia and Iran. Is this the end of US hegemony as we know it? Tune in as you don’t want to miss the show that digs up the roots of the most pressing developments shaping the world today.
Monday, 5 May 2025 — Geopolitics and Climate Change
I wrote earlier about the role of the oligarch funded AfD, founded by neoliberal economists and now lead by the grand-daughter of a Hitler-appointed judge and acolyte of a neoliberal economist, as a party being kept in the wings in case oligarch rule through social democracy breaks down. With the CDU/CSU government immediately after its election carrying out a complete 180 from its election promises, pushing for massive new war spending and an oligarch “infrastructure” slush fund to enable German oligarch profiteering. As shown below with the biggest German defence firm Rheinmetall.
Sunday, 4 May 2025 — in Defence of Marxism
What is fascism, how do we fight it, and is it a threat today? In this episode of the Spectre of Communism podcast, we discuss the history of fascism’s rise to power in the 1930s, to learn the lessons for our movement.
Sunday, 4 May 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
I am in Malta with the group ready to board the Gaza flotilla ship “Conscience” which was bombed by Israel yesterday. As one of the organizers of the US Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, we have been working for months to bring activists from 22 countries to board the next ship to challenge the Israeli genocide of Gaza and break the illegal Israeli Siege of Gaza.
Sunday, 4 May 2025 — Global Delinquents
As VE Day approaches, Western officials, pundits and journalists are widely seeking to exploit the 80th anniversary of Nazism’s defeat for political purposes. European leaders have threatened state attendees of Russia’s grand May 9th victory parade with adverse consequences. Meanwhile, countless sources draw historical comparisons between appeasement of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s, and the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to strike a deal with Moscow to end the Ukraine proxy conflict.
30 April 2025 — Black Agenda Report
On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s advances on the continent. Some Senators expressed concern that Trump had dispensed with the soft power—their term—projected by USAID and worried that China is stepping in to fill the breach.
1951 — Jazz on the Tube
Drummer Louie Bellson is a man on fire as he drives the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Saturday, 3 May 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
During Pepe’s talks about his recent time in China he mentioned this interview on several occasions, yet it never surfaced on any Chinese media platform. Finally, one of Guancha’s subsidiaries, Observer.com, published it and gave it this title: “Trump’s crazy policies can only lead to “trade suicide”, a big experiment that will affect the world is coming.” Those reading the Gym arre likely to have read Pepe’s articles during his recent China stay and will thus know that it took place about ten days ago. In the interim, little has changed. The transcript leads with an editor’s note before the interview begins:
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Saturuday, 3 May 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
China has quietly won the trade war and is now reshaping global leadership—not through force, but through strategy, stability, and vision. It’s time for the West to learn, adapt, and embrace a shared future led by a preponderant China.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
—Vladimir Lenin
The New Dark Age 