Syria / Trump pulls US imperialist troops out of Syria – as promised

Why has this huge step towards Syria’s total liberation been greeted with such howls of rage by those on the self-identifying ‘left’?

Yemen / Saudi Arabia takes a flogging

The Saudi dog has been beaten in full view of the US lion; and if the lesson is lost on imperialism, it may find itself embroiled in a fight that will undermine its very foundations.

Syria / Turkey and US sign a robbers’ pact over Syria

Kurdish nationalists must choose between unstable US-backed ‘self-rule’ and returning to a united Syrian fold.

Iran / Britain falters onto the warpath against Iran

With so much else on their plate, Britain’s rulers may not be keen to follow the US into yet another doomed war.

Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

Iran / Unions call on British government to send in the gunboats

What would Bob Crow have said to the ITF’s blindly acquiescing in the war games of our imperial masters?

Palestine / Airbrushing history: Israel buries evidence of its racist war crimes

Zionist secret services exposed attempting to ‘construct a more convenient version’ of history.

Syria / Syria looks to its future while US imperialism yearns for the past

After eight years of bloody war aimed at shoring up its control over the middle east, the US has achieved exactly the opposite.

Syria / Shifting sands in the middle east

As Syria advances towards liberation, facts on the ground are pushing Turkey ever closer to Russia, deepening the splits in Nato.

USA / Jacobin-sponsored ‘socialism’ conference stars US-funded regime-change activists

A case study in how imperialism creates a controlled ‘opposition’ to endorse its propaganda lies ‘from the left’.

Iran / False flags flying over Hormuz strait

President Trump has yet to light the fuse on the war his hawks are pushing. If he does, the US will live to regret it.

Palestine / Netanyahu fails to form a government

None of the alternatives is willing to halt Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people.

Iran / False flag in the strait of Hormuz?

Could the extreme hawks in Washington be trying to force Trump’s hand to launch their hoped-for war against Iran?

Venezuela / Venezuela isn’t Syria … but America’s war tactics are the same

The US’s template for demonising a nation it wishes to destroy is becoming all-too familiar.

Syria / Syria fights on

Only total liberation will allow the country to rebuild a tolerant society and solve the problems that imperialist invasion has created.

Libya / Libyan, migrant and European workers all pawns in the great imperial game

The imperialists are desperate to carve up and plunder a way out of the chaos they have created in Libya, but unable to unite around a common strategy.

Palestine / More land annexations by the Israeli scorpion

As the zionists become ever more rabid, they are in reality hastening the date of their own demise.

Syria / Headlines for Baghuz; silence for al-Hol as US tries to keep its foothold in Syria

Imperialist media continue to ignore or distort the plight of civilians trapped in US-controlled refugee camps.

Palestine / Israeli election shock: zionism wins again

The true face of Israeli ‘democracy’ is revealed at the Gaza border fence.

Syria / Trump whistling in the dark over Isis defeat claim

If Daesh is truly defeated on the ground in Syria, it is to the eternal credit of the Syrian army and people, not US imperialism and its hirelings.

British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

Yemen / The tempering of Yemen’s resistance

The Stockholm agreement is a milestone in the long struggle of the Yemeni people for freedom.

Economy / Britain lobbies Germany to sell arms to the Saudis

Crocodile tears over the famine in Yemen are accompanied by strenuous lobbying on behalf of the corporations that are perpetuating it.

Syria / Syria clears away remaining obstacles to liberation

And the more she advances, the harder becomes the imperialists’ task of keeping together the tissue of lies that was woven to justify their barbaric invasion.

Syria / US imperialism finds defeat hard to swallow in Syria

The writing is on the wall: regime-change has failed and US imperialism is heading for the exit.

Syria / Trump makes a lunge for the exit in Syria

A collective howl of rage from the liberal establishment greeted Trump’s announcement, but whether or not they manage to put the brakes on, the war in Syria is lost.

USA / Trump is God’s gift that keeps on giving – but to whom?

Trump’s running of US imperialism is replete with own goals, causing almost as much pain to his own side as to that of his opponents.

North Africa and Middle East / World War One in the middle east and its aftermath

How British and French imperialism carved up the middle east with the backing of their US bankers.

USA / Texas primary teacher loses her job for refusing to sign a pro-Israel oath

Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed advocates and defenders of bourgeois ‘free speech’ stand mutely by.

Syria / Syria carves out her future

Despite all the best-laid plans of US imperialism, the Syrian people are pushing on relentlessly with the liberation of their country.

Syria / US imperialism losing the plot in Syria

The imperialists are raging as strong diplomacy combined with military advances edge the Syrian people ever closer to their final victory.

Yemen / Yemen fights back against US-backed Saudi aggression

Despite raining death and destruction and causing horrific suffering to the Yemeni people, the Saudis are no closer to winning their barbaric war.

World / Imperialists getting desperate as the balance of forces in the world shifts

The US and EU imperialists continue to decline while China and Russia are steadily advancing.

Palestine / Zionism is a racist and antisemitic tool of imperialist policy in the middle east

It is not the anti-zionists who are guilty of antisemitism, but the zionists themselves. Accusations meant to silence opposition to Israel’s fascistic nature must be resisted.

Syria / No cooperation with imperialist war crimes in Syria

Refuse to help with the war effort; full support to the resistance!

Syria / Idlib: Syria stays its hand

With or without the assistance of the west, Syria will rebuild. It is winning the war and will win the peace.

Saudi Arabia / Khashoggi – a murder most foul

Imperialism and its Saudi puppets in the dock.

British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

Syria / Idlib stands on the threshold of liberation

Imperialism desperately seeks to put a spanner in the works to prevent the final rout of the jihadi menace.

British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

Palestine / US-zionist ‘deal of the century’ – a slap in the face for the Palestinians

Trump's much touted 'new deal' for Palestine is no deal at all, and only brings closer the day when Israeli zionism will collapse completely.

Yemen / Saudi puppets launch US bomb that kills 40 school children in Yemen

Imperialist governments feign outrage at their proxies' actions while providing them with the weaponry and diplomatic protection to carry out further massacres.

British politics / Collusion between British security services and jihadis revealed

Further proof that it is in workers’ interests to oppose and challenge the imperialist foreign policy of our ruling class.

British politics / Libyan terrorists nurtured by British imperialism bite the hand that feeds

The terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena was carried out by a young man whose training and radicalisation were facilitated by British secret services.

Syria / Army moves to liberate Idlib as US faces waning authority in the region

Islamic State in Syria has been vanquished, to the great consternation of the imperialists, who now stare complete defeat in the face.

Palestine / Israel officially declares itself to be a racist state

But still thinks people will believe it to be a democracy!

Syria / White Helmets ‘evacuated’ from southwest Syria by Israeli forces

The imperialists have been panicked into action by the realisation that their proxy forces in Syria are not going to last much longer.

Syria / Syria advances to liberation

The Syrian people are standing firm against all the plots and intrigues by which imperialism hopes to cheat them of their victory.

Palestine / The Great March of Return and the zionist murder machine

Israel will act with impunity until decisive collective action is taken against it.

Palestine / The defiance that launched Gaza’s flaming kites cannot be extinguished

Israel's fleet of F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.

Syria / The liberation of eastern Ghouta

Imperialism is fighting a failing endgame.

Palestine / Seventy years since the Palestinian Nakba

After seven decades of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, the zionist forces are as far as ever from achieving their impossible dream.

Iran / Trump rips up the nuclear deal

Will Europe follow suit?

Palestine / Zionist brutality on full display across Palestine

The Palestinians continue to use every means available to them to resist the brutal occupation of their homeland. British workers must play their part.

Leaflets / No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

The timing of the imperialist missile strikes on Syria reveals their hopes of saving the defeated jihadis to inflict further suffering on the Syrian people.

Syria / Imperialist plans for a major war as rats cleared out of eastern Ghouta

British soldiers captured by the Syrian army in Douma give the game away.

Syria / From Afrin to Ghouta, US policy in Syria is backfiring badly

Each new US plan to rescue something from its failed war in Syria has led to further humiliation for the imperialists.

Media / The ‘independent media’ that exist to attack independent media

The enemy’s supposed to hate it: Beeley and Bartlett under attack again.

North Africa and Middle East / Philby senior and his role in British imperial treachery in the middle east

The secret manoeuvrings of British imperialism to take over control of Arabia as the Turkish empire was ousted during WW1.

Syria / Total liberation in sight for Syria

Last-ditch efforts by the terrorist forces and their imperialist backers to turn the tide merely serve to underline the desperate straits to which they have been reduced.

Media / Blunt hatchets: Guardian attempts to discredit real journalism on Syria

As the criminal war against Syria faces an all-out defeat, the guardians of liberal opinion are going all-out to bring independent-minded readers back into line.

Iran / Tehran foils imperialist destabilisation plot

But the government will need to pursue domestic policies favourable to the working masses if it is to strengthen its hand against imperialism.

Palestine / Trump’s proposed embassy move and savage repression of Palestinians

Nothing will stifle the justice of the Palestinian cause.

Media / Media on trial

Independent journalists expose the lies of the liberal imperialist media such as the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

Syria / Syria moves forward

The imperialists are staring a humiliating defeat in the face, and now the demoralised losers are falling out among themselves.

Palestine / One hundred years since the Balfour declaration

A sordid document in the shameful history of British imperialism.

Saudi Arabia / Turmoil in the House of Saud

The days of the feudal autocratic Saudi monarchy are surely numbered.

Syria / The liberation of Deir Ezzor

As the day of total victory draws near for the Syrian patriotic forces, the imperialists and their stooges are casting about for ways to save face as they head for the exit.

Syria / Liberation of Aleppo is reshaping the middle east

The total failure of US imperialist policy in Syria has been made clear at the Astana peace talks.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

Syria / Syrian president: ‘defeat of the terrorists is the west’s defeat’

The following are extensive excerpts from an exclusive interview given by President Bashar al-Assad of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian international television channel RT, first published on 14 December 2016. Proletarian has made minor corrections to the translation for clarity.

British politics / Chilcot report: devastating exposure of the British establishment

Blair hung out to dry in an attempt to divert attention from the continuing crimes of British imperialism.

Turkey / Turkish coup: more fallout from the war in Syria

Whoever turns out to have been behind it, the recent coup attempt may be another blow against US imperialist hegemony in the middle east.

Palestine / Hedy Epstein, rights activist and holocaust survivor, remembered

Hedy Epstein, known and loved by the Palestinian people and their friends and supporters for her courageous work for solidarity and justice, has died aged 91.

Syria / Patriotic forces consolidate their gains

Confusion and disintegration reign amongst the imperialist-backed ‘opposition’ as Syria and her allies strengthen their position.

Syria / Patriotic forces advancing

As Russian forces pull back, the jihadis continue to suffer defeat after defeat.

Saudi Arabia / The march of the Saudi regime towards its inevitable doom

The mediaeval autocracy is fuelling the very forces that will bring its decrepit rule to an end.

Iraq / The axis of resistance and the liberation of Ramadi

Key Iraqi city has been freed from IS occupation despite the presence of imperialist forces.

Syria / Resistance turns the tide

Forward movement on the diplomatic front has only been achieved as a result of the heroic struggle waged by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies.

Syria: Imperialism on the back foot

Russia’s fraternal aid to Syria continues to expose the false narrative of western politicians and media regarding the fight against fundamentalist terrorism.

Editorial: Russia backs the Syrian people

Imperialism raises the stakes in Syria

Meanwhile, crude attempts to manipulate public opinion proliferate.

The last thing Lebanon needs is a phony ‘Arab Spring’

Regime change under the present conditions would be a disaster for Lebanon.

Syria / Hypocritical imperialist double-dealing in Syria

While local stooges are working overtime to help imperialism topple the Syrian government, it is the Syrian army that truly combats Islamic State, not the RAF.

Yemen / Imperialist-backed war continues

A token ceasefire cannot disguise the vicious aggression that is leading the Arab world’s poorest country towards a catastrophe.

Syria / Idlib setback: imperialism crows too soon

US imperialism’s ‘islamic’ psychopaths cannot win hearts and minds.

Syria / MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

Britain's secret services and reactionary islamists united against Syria.

Media / A schoolboy’s Christmas letter to Amnesty International