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Oct 30, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Jonathan Hinckley
Having failed to destroy Hamas or return the hostages, it is becoming increasingly clear that Israel’s strategy has changed. The whole population remaining in northern Gaza, some 400,000 men, women and children, are being subjected to a policy of ethnic cleansing. While indiscriminate bombardment and sniping is being used to terrorise the population southward, the area is being deliberately starved and its medical infrastructure obliterated.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
no.marxist.com | Jonathan Hinckley
A new strain of Mpox is tearing through Central Africa. Since the start of the year, 13 African countries have reported more than 22,800 Mpox cases and 622 deaths, which represents a 160 percent increase compared with the same period in 2023. This is likely only a fraction of the real number. What is clear is that, four years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19. The recent explosion of the disease threatens a worldwide outbreak.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
communist.red | Nick Oung |Jonathan Hinckley
Earlier this month, Keir Starmer announced that Britain would be ‘giving back’ the Chagos Islands, one of its last colonies. But make no mistake: British imperialism has not grown a conscience. It is just as criminal today as it was when it forcibly expelled the population of the islands in the 1960s. As Starmer himself has said, this move is only to insure the safety of the American military base on Diego Garcia.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Jonathan Hinckley
A new strain of Mpox is tearing through Central Africa. Since the start of the year, 13 African countries have reported more than 22,800 Mpox cases and 622 deaths, which represents a 160 percent increase compared with the same period in 2023. This is likely only a fraction of the real number. What is clear is that, four years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19. The recent explosion of the disease threatens a worldwide outbreak.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Jonathan Hinckley
On 24 August, Pavel Durov, the Russian billionaire owner of encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested by French police. Interrogated for four days, he was yesterday transported to a court and charged on all counts. Now, awaiting trial, he has been released on a €5 million bail, must visit the French police twice a week, and has been prevented from leaving France. A warrant is also out for the arrest of his brother, the co-founder of Telegram.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
marxist.com | Jeff Hwang |Jonathan Hinckley
Last week, a David-vs-Goliath struggle broke out at Samsung, the biggest Chaebol (conglomerate) in Korea, where workers launched the first indefinite strike in the company’s history. Samsung is one of the biggest corporations in the world, and alone accounts for 20 percent of South Korea’s GDP. It is the preeminent producer of memory chips and controls 42 percent of the global market for semiconductors, a vital commodity for the production of microprocessors.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
communist.red | Jonathan Hinckley |Rob Sewell
“We are the party of business and workers,” states Sir Keir Starmer. But that is simply a cover for his pro-business government. Rachel Reeves, the new ‘Labour’ chancellor, previously worked for the Bank of England, and also for the banking and insurance company HBOS. She has made it clear that the new government will ruthlessly stick to Tory spending plans (“fiscal rules”). She is also a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israeli Genocide.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
communist.red | Jonathan Hinckley
One of the defining political issues in this election – and of this entire period – is the war in Gaza. For millions, the question of Palestine has become a litmus test for judging candidates; a lightning rod for all the accumulated anger amongst the most oppressed and denigrated layers of society. On the one side are all the establishment parties and politicians, who have unanimously lined up behind Netanyahu and US imperialism, backing Israel’s genocidal massacre against the Palestinian people.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
communist.red | Jonathan Hinckley |Fred Weston
The death toll in Gaza is approaching 40,000, including more than 15,000 children killed. A further 10,000 are missing, buried in the rubble and unaccounted for. This brings the total number of Gazans killed close to 50,000. On top of this, over 85,000 have been injured. While this butchery continues unabated, on the West Bank a further 549 Palestinians have been killed – 135 of which have been children – and over 5,000 have been injured.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
communist.red | Jonathan Hinckley |Ben Gliniecki
We’re told we live in a democracy, but whether we vote for Starmer or Sunak, we’re going to get pretty much the same thing. What’s democratic about that? We’re told we have rights like freedom of speech and a free press, but the government is banning protests and the newspapers are all owned by billionaires. What’s the point of these “rights” if they don’t actually mean anything? The fact is that the world is run by and for the rich. They decide everything and the rest of us don’t get a say.
