On Saturday 8 October, the Workers Party will be joining the Hands Around Parliament protest at Parliament Square in support and solidarity with Julian Assange. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks should be internationally recognised and honoured for accuracy, truth, and bravery in journalism. Instead he’s rotting in a cell in Belmarsh, and facing extradition to somewhereContinue reading “Hands Around Parliament for Julian Assange”
Category Archives: World
Yemen war statistics
Saudi Arabia, let’s not forget, is a barbaric theocratic dictatorship waging an incredibly brutal war on Yemen, which has resulted in famine. This illegal war is waged using British arms, but there is no response from FIFA, from the theatre critics, from the Women’s Institute or the European Tree of the Year competition, which is odd as they were very quick to “stand up for peace” in Ukraine. If there are to be moral outrages, surely they must be consistent and not merely launched on the instructions of the Foreign Office and their parrots in the corporate media…
Print at home statement
The following leaflet was made available on social media to members and supporters as a print-at-home leaflet for anti-war demonstrations in February. By clicking on the JPEG below you can read it in full.
Putin has a point…
Leader of the Workers Party, George Galloway in a clip on TikTok has highlighted a piece in the Spectator. The magazine, not exactly famous as a left-wing journal, told people to whisper softly that “Putin has a point”. The magazine was talking about the turning of Ukraine into an armed camp, hostile to Russia. AsContinue reading “Putin has a point…”
Interview with photo journalist returned from the Donbass
Lauren chats with independent photo journalist Dean O’Brien, who has travelled extensively across Ukraine and the Donbass region. He gives insight into the current conflict and the rise of fascism in Ukraine.
Nato and Russia, a brief history
For thirty years NATO has been conducting a slow-motion war which was from the very beginning aimed at first containing and then balkanizing Russia
Arthur Scargill replies to the Morning Star
Have people and the Morning Star forgotten that the elected President of Ukraine was overthrown by a Coup D’etat in 2014 and replaced by an unelected Oligarch as “President” to the delight of the USA, Britain, the EU and NATO. Has the Morning Star forgotten the unlawful invasion of Grenada which led to the murder of MauriceContinue reading “Arthur Scargill replies to the Morning Star”
TU Group Statement on boycott of Russian oil tanker in Orkney
Trade Union Group statement on boycott of Russian oil tanker in Orkney. The photo (above) depicts the scene of the Trade Union House in Odessa, where trade unionists were burnt alive by neo-Nazi’s in 2014, Ukraine, photo courtesy YouTube user 9plus0 https://www.youtube.com/c/9plus0media The WPB Trade Union Group has noted with concern a report in theContinue reading “TU Group Statement on boycott of Russian oil tanker in Orkney”
What was intended as a demonstration of Nato strength has ended with proof of its weakness.
As the current Ukraine crisis escalated party leader George Galloway expressed his feelings in a post on social media early on Thursday, “This is not what I wanted to see in Ukraine, it didn’t have to end this way. Even days ago an agreement that Ukraine would never join Nato and the full implementation ofContinue reading “What was intended as a demonstration of Nato strength has ended with proof of its weakness.”