50 years ago today, Spanish police massacred workers who had gathered for a mass meeting inside the church of San Francisco de Asís in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Basque Country. 

3 March marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant events of the revolution against the Franco regime in Spain, which is today misnamed the ‘transition to democracy’. 

The resistance and liberation of France during the Second World War are among the most remarkable episodes of the French class struggle. The mass mobilisation of the working class opened up the prospect of a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, which terrified the ruling class.

The Green Party's victory in the Gorton & Denton by-election is yet another seismic shift in the landscape of British politics, and a sign of the polarisation and instability to come. We welcome this humiliating blow for Starmer’s Labour – but the Greens' reformism offers no way out of the crisis.

The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 found Italian imperialism utterly unprepared, either militarily or economically. Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime thus preferred to let its stronger German ally do the fighting, and refrained from entering the war.

In the summer of 1905, Sweden and Norway were on the brink of war. The Swedish bourgeois press wrote about the ‘revolution’ and ‘coup d'état’ in Norway. King Oscar II refused to recognise Norway's declaration of independence, and thousands of conservatives gathered in Stockholm to demonstrate and demand punishment for the Norwegians. Swedish troops were called in, fortresses were armed, and the general staff requested time to plan an invasion of Norway.

In the definition of chameleon in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, we find, among several characteristics, its “unusual ability to change the colour of the skin”. We also find synonyms for chameleon, such as “opportunist” and “weathercock” – “a person or thing that changes readily or often”, and “a person who often changes their beliefs or behaviour in order to please others or to succeed.”

Starmer’s future lies in the balance following sordid revelations about his Blairite ally, Peter Mandelson. The fallout from the Epstein scandal could drag down this crisis-ridden government, opening up a new chapter of instability in British politics.

Since Donald Trump was elected in November 2024, a historic diplomatic crisis has opened up between the United States and Denmark over the question of who controls Greenland. Trump, on the one hand, views Greenland and the Arctic in general as a key strategic area for US interests. The Danish ruling class, meanwhile, sees their Greenlandic colony as their ‘golden ticket’ to the White House, without which their position on the international stage would be diminished to the level of complete insignificance.

Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland has escalated compared to a year ago, when he was just sworn in as president. He has threatened tariffs, military force, and all sorts of other things. It is still uncertain where it will all end, but it has put the Danish government under enormous pressure and, at the same time, shocked many people at home.

The bosses’ organisation, Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB), dubbed it the “€1 billion strike”. They were referring to the supposed financial loss caused by the three-day strike on 24, 25, and 26 November. This bosses’ propaganda, aimed at frightening workers, instead resulted in many people thinking: “Wow, is this the wealth that our work produces in just three days? And what would happen if the CEOs and shareholders stopped working? In reality, nobody would notice. We are the real wealth creators!”

This article was originally published on 14 January, 2026. The situation between the USA and Greenland has developed very quickly, and so parts of this article may have been superseded by events. And yet, in analysing Trump’s reasons for wanting Greenland, and the hypocrisy of the Danish ruling class – who fear losing their colonial possession – this article remains useful in understanding the general processes that are now unfolding at pace.

In an extraordinary escalation of the repression against the international Palestine movement, journalist and founder of red. media Hüseyin Doğru has been made a non-person by the European Commission. The nature of the sanction levelled against Doğru really is extraordinary. In effect, with this action the European Commission has given itself the right to completely negate any individual’s democratic and human rights.

Donald Trump’s desire to seize control of Greenland and its resources has brought US imperialism into conflict with Europe. This puts Starmer in a quandary, as he and the British establishment attempt a delicate, unsustainable balancing act.

The bar fire in Crans-Montana is one of the greatest disasters in Swiss history. The entire political establishment is trying to portray the 40 deaths and 116 injuries as the result of a fateful coincidence. But the truth is that this disaster was entirely man-made. The cause lies in the short-sighted, reckless pursuit of profit that drives capitalism.