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‘Least worst’ vs ‘don’t bother’. Should workers vote?

Caught between the polar positions of ‘Don’t waste your vote, people died to give it to you’ and ‘Why vote, it never changes anything’, what are class-conscious workers supposed to do at election time?

Ukraine: Donbass resistance forces junta into humiliating retreat

The Kiev regime’s winter offensive was supposed to see off the people’s anti-fascist militias; instead, it is they who have been chased out in short order, and with their morale at an all-time low.

Letter: Who’s ‘playing games’ with our health service?

The following letter was sent by a Proletarian reader to the British Medical Association journal BMA News.

Editorial: Our health is not for sale!

Syria

MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

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

Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

North and south of the border, Sinn Féin is proving to be the only large party that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.
Syria

MI5 and the jihadists: an unholy alliance

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

Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

North and south of the border, Sinn Féin is proving to be the only large party that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.

Poem: Birthday honours

By David Cozens

Iraq, Syria: imperialism is in a hole and digging

“Why do you fail in every war? You can create war, you can create problems, but you cannot solve any problem.” – President Bashar al-Assad.
Americas

Turmoil in Argentina as US imperialism struggles to regain its lost paradise

A tale of banksters, fraudsters, vultures and black ops.

US dockers’ struggle highlights the vulnerabilities of globalisation

A famous victory for the working class.

Industry matters: workers fight back

Stepan Bandera – the Ukrainian fascists’ ‘hero’

As we mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism, let us never forget that fascist movements are spawned by and serve the imperialist system.
Books

Review: The Casual Vacancy

A novel by JK Rowling, televised by the BBC in three parts.
China

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – a challenge to imperialist hegemony

Thieves fall out.