This week saw the grotescque spectacle of Zelensky doing a Star Wars cosplaying session in the Brtish parliament and being given an IOU for fighter jets in return. We look at that...
2023-02-11 21:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As the Russian forces continue to encircle Artymovsk/Bakhmut and the Zelensky regime starts dragooning the blind and disabled into the Ukrainian army we look at what the Nato gang might...
2023-02-05 20:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an early release for patrons of an interview with Joti Brar of the Vice Chair Communist Party of Great Britain - Marxist Leninist. In this interview we speak about the 2023-01-31 15:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In this patrons episode I look at the latest controversies regarding police violence in the USA. As part of this I examine why policing emerges as a unique function under capitalism, why the ...
2023-01-30 23:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll be doing a Q&A at the end of February so if you have specific questions post them below. I'll also be going through all the comments left on the programmes since the last one of these and ...
2023-01-30 11:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
In a break to our regularly schedule programmes on the Ukraine war I take a look at why the Labour Party does not deserve one single vote at the next British elections. I also argue why Starm...
2023-01-28 21:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As the Russian armed forces cointinue their advances across Donetsk and Zaporozhye we ask if the promises of new tanks from Germany, Britain and the US will actually make all that...
2023-01-26 12:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of the bulletin we look at the latest from the frontlines in Ukraine. This includes the fall of Soledar and the encirclement of Artymovsk, the role of the Wa...
2023-01-22 21:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I start off this episode by talking about the launch of the Marx Engels Institute which is now the home of this podcast. &nb...
2023-01-20 15:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The question what is and what isn't a revolution is one that recurs every year when it comes to examining the bourgeois revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries. This is particularly the ca...
2023-01-17 14:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I speak with Dr Bob Gill. He is a medical doctor working within the British National Health Service and long time campaigner against health service privatisation. ...
2023-01-17 14:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Will the classified documents stashed in his corvette's glove box spell the end for Joe Biden? Have the Russians sacked their commander? Is British capitalism actually capab...
2023-01-13 00:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I look at two articles that take a critical view of the typical modern leftist view on abortion. These are:
What are the reasons behind the recent riot of Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil? What does this tell us about the nature of capitalist democracy in Brazil? Are there any comparisons...
2023-01-09 22:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In this special episode I look at the two speeches given by the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. By reading through we can tell much about ...
2023-01-08 22:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I look at the real meaning of Zelenskys Christmas in Washington, the sheer brute cynicism of the likes of Lindsay Graham and the return of Oliver North. I then turn to domesti...
2023-01-07 00:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
As 2023 rolls in I spend the bulk of this new years show looking at the dismal fate of the anti war movement in the Anglo-sphere nations. I then do something far more traditional and look at ...
2023-01-02 14:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post
For the Christmas special this year I look back at the American invasion of Iraq and the anti war movement. Why was the American invasion a much more shaky prospect than it seemed? How close ...
2022-12-24 15:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I star the bulletin tonight by looking at the latest from the war in Ukraine, including Putin visiting Minsk and the possible implcations of it.
The bulk of the episode thought is taken...
2022-12-20 22:49:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In this special episode I look at the life of the African revolutionary Thomas Sankara. This programme takes in everything from the formation of the old Upper Volta state by French imperialis...
2022-12-18 21:34:15 +0000 UTC View Post
With the German parliament recently passing a resolution proclaiming that the Soviet leadership in the ealry 1930's engaged in a deliberate policy of starvation in Ukraine it was ...
2022-12-16 17:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of the bulletin I look at the role of the press in maintaining the rule of the capitalist class. This is after a brief overview of the latest from the ...
2022-12-14 20:23:50 +0000 UTC View Post
As the Kiev regime prepares another doomed offensive in Zaporozhye I ask what, what the hell are they doing? The Saudis realign but remain the same collection of ultra react...
2022-12-12 23:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of the bulletin I consider the latest discussion around the potential end point for the Russia-NATO war in Ukraine that have emerged recently. I then look at the f...
2022-12-10 18:03:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In this latest episode of our ongoing series 'A Marxist History of World War 2' I examine the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939. The bourgeois historians routinely portray this as the "...
2022-12-08 17:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of the bulletin I look at the likely effects of the G7 oil "price cap" and how it isn't likely to lead to the results it's originators desire. I also look at...
2022-12-05 22:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this weeks article review I examine a recent offering from New Left Review by the Swedish "marxian" sociologist Goran Therborn. It is typical of the recent output of NLR and thus a useful ...
2022-12-04 23:00:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I examine the latest from the Russia-NATO war and other related stories. As the Russian armed forces reach almost full strength the NATO "allies" plot to dismember Ukrai...
2022-12-01 20:32:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's article review will be focussed on this recent piece by Goran Therborn on the various "new" Lefts of recent decades.
2022-12-01 13:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I look at the latest news from the ongoing battles around Artemovsk/Balhmut and the rumours of it's imminent fall to the Russian forces. I then look at the latest ...
2022-11-30 00:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post