Geography Archives: Britain

How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More.

As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide of Palestinians, its efforts centred around its RAF Akrotiri military base on Cyprus, using it to launch these spy flights, which send intelligence, including targeting data, directly to the Israeli military.

SENDING more RAF jets to the Middle East underlines Britain’s involvement in Israel’s escalating aggression in the region.

Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left.

As Britain hands the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, the continued exclusion of Diego Garcia from resettlement and scrutiny raises alarms. Despite Mauritius’s commitments under the Pelindaba Treaty establishing an African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, U.S. control of the base may violate the treaty.

The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.

The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.

LET NOT THE HINDUTVA RULERS UNDO THE GREAT HERITAGE OF JOINT SACRIFICES.

The pro-Palestine movement has never been more prominent in the West, but Western governments and corporations are still committed to the success of the Zionist project.

As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

Negotiations have also been influenced by India, which supports Mauritius due to shared cultural and historical ties.

Following the publication of Tariq Ali’s latest memoirs, he spoke to Michael Lavalette about the contrasting periods covered in his autobiographies and the prospects for the left today.

What’s at stake in this hearing is not just the freedom of some courageous individuals: it’s the credibility of the British legal system and the lifeblood of democracy itself.

Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.

Michael Lavalette speaks to former Irish MEP, Clare Daly about her political history, her view on the current situation and her forthcoming general election campaign.

The Morning Star sends its solidarity and support to those demonstrating tomorrow at Lakenheath, Suffolk, against the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to British soil.

The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious to silence them.

With a constant stream of media exposing genocidal war in Palestine, child labor in the Congo, and Indigenous struggles in South America, neoliberalism’s colonial nature is clearer than ever. Now is the time to return to the works of Fanon and explore a radically different future liberated from coloniality, Ken Olende explores.

On the 23rd of March 1931, Bhagat Singh was hanged to death for waging revolution against the British colonial government in Lahore, Pakistan at the young age of 23.