A lot of Western analysts are applauding the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel as a moment of stasis in the bombings, and as a premise for a peace process.

The current situation has been described as worse than Cuba’s special period after the collapse of the USSR.

These are dangerous times. The post-war boom ended half a century ago. With it went capitalism’s last promise of a relatively better life.

(The article below is a translation from Italian of an update, written just after the Israeli attack on Iran, to the Internationalist Communist Party’s document already on our site entitled _Unendi

After winning one of the dullest elections in history,(1) where less than 60% bothered to vote, Labour has quietly slipped into office to carry out the task of managing UK incorporated.

(The 1970s were a period of political questioning and reawakening.

The recent strike at 36 major container ports throughout the East and Gulf Coast is the first strike to be launched by the ILA since 1977. It has been estimated that the strike would cost the U.S.

On October 1st the IDF invaded Lebanon with the brutal objective of creating a security belt south of the Litani river.