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  • Monthly Review Essays
  •  | A British soldier kicks anti colonial demonstrators in Yemen 1967 Keir Starmer bombed the country last month Photo AP  Alamy | MR Online

    The Empire never died

    Originally published: Declassified UK on May 19, 2025 by Mark Curtis (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted May 22, 2025)

    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.

  •  | Keir Starmer was guided to power by Morgan McSweeney Photo Allstar  Alamy | MR Online

    Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’

    Originally published: Declassified UK on April 24, 2025 by Richard Sanders (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.

  •  | Fanning the flames of anger and hope Jeremy Corbyn stands on the shoulders of Tony Benn | MR Online

    ‘The Visiting Emperors’: How corporations conquered the world

    Originally published: Declassified UK on September 23, 2024 (more by Declassified UK)  |

    The former Labour Party leader’s new foreword to Claire Provost and Matt Kennard’s book ‘Silent Coup’ outlines his thoughts on the growing power of the private sector over society.

  •  | DEFENCE CORRESPONDENTS | MR Online

    Defence correspondents

    Originally published: Declassified UK on August 19, 2024 by Des Freedman (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Aug 29, 2024)

    There are stenographers–and then there are UK defence correspondents.

  •  | Hind Rajab sedang meninggalkan kota dengan mobil bersama bibinya pamannya dan tiga sepupunya pada saat itu Keluarga Rajab | MR Online

    ‘Found dead in Gaza’? No, murdered by Israel

    Originally published: Declassified UK on May 10, 2024 by Des Freedman (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted May 13, 2024)

    After six year-old Hind Rajab was killed by the Israeli army, Britain’s national media failed to unequivocally pinpoint Israel as responsible, refused to follow up the story and cover important new information, and then moved on.

  •  | Ireland | MR Online

    ‘The closest we’ve been since partition’:Irish reunification on the horizon

    Originally published: Declassified UK on April 8, 2024 by Matt Kennard (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2024)

    Declassified visits Belfast as Ireland appears on the edge of something truly historic, with most agreeing that Brexit was the game-changer.

  •  | Israel has reduced Gaza to ruins Photo UNRWA | MR Online

    How the western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza

    Originally published: Declassified UK on March 20, 2024 (more by Declassified UK)  |

    From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.

  •  | A Trident missile spins out of control Photo US National Archives | MR Online

    Trident missile failure exposes folly of nuclear weapons

    Originally published: Declassified UK on February 26, 2024 by Kate Hudson (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2024)

    Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction?

  •  | Israels prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Photo Valeriano Di Domenico  WEF | MR Online

    Weaponizing anti-Semitism: The gift that keeps on giving

    Originally published: Declassified UK on February 14, 2024 by Antony Lerman (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2024)

    Apologists for Israel’s brutality against Palestinians in Gaza are continuing to use the past persecution of Jews to neutralise criticism of Israel.

  •  | An injured Palestinian girl lies on the floor of Gazas Nasser Hospital 22 January 2024 Photo Belal Khaled  Anadolu via Getty | MR Online

    For Western media, Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not ‘deadly’

    Originally published: Declassified UK on January 30, 2024 by Des Freedman (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Jan 31, 2024)

    Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.

  •  | An RAF Typhoon takes off from Akrotiri on Cyprus to bomb Yemen Photo MOD | MR Online

    Bombing Yemen–as British as afternoon tea

    Originally published: Declassified UK on January 12, 2024 by Mark Curtis (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Jan 15, 2024)

    The UK military’s latest bombing of Yemen comes on the 60th anniversary of a forgotten British campaign in the country involving brute force and deliberate attacks on civilians, declassified files show.

  •  | Palestine Action defendants including Huda Ammori 4th from right outside court Photo Martin Pope via Getty  Declassified UK | MR Online

    Why I risked prison to shut Elbit down

    Originally published: Declassified UK on January 10, 2024 by Huda Ammori (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2024)

    The co-founder of Palestine Action writes about her and fellow activists’ acquittal by a UK court for attempting to close down the Israeli arms firm’s operations in Britain.

  •  | The witchfinders are now ready to burn Corbyn | MR Online

    Weaponising anti-semitism, bringing down Corbyn

    Originally published: Declassified UK on May 30, 2023 by Asa Winstanley (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted May 31, 2023)

    Britain’s mainstream media, its Army and the Israel lobby all combined to ensure Jeremy Corbyn did not become prime minister, a new book argues.

  •  | Julian Assange speaking in 2009 Photo New Media Days  Peter Erichsen  Creative Commons | MR Online

    A kingly proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III

    Originally published: Declassified UK on May 5, 2023 (more by Declassified UK)  |

    On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez  | Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision | MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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