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Frene Ginwala 1932-2023: A Marxist fireball whose flames were doused by Julius Nyerere
Frene Ginwala with President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania in the newsroom of The Standard in Dar es Salaam in 1970 (Picture: Adarsh Nayar). THE LENIN SUPPLEMENT by Trevor… Read more >
The Red Flag is turning Blue as Sir Keir Starmer abandons Socialism and sets his eyes on Number 10 in 2024
Sir Keir Starmer with the man his spin doctors want British voters to forget, Jeremy Corbyn THE STARMER PROJECT – A Journey to the Right by Oliver Eagleton (Verso,… Read more >
Antisemitism: Prominent authors pick books that best tell the story of the world’s oldest and most lethal hatred
The best books on antisemitism 11 authors have picked their favorite books about antisemitism and why they recommend each book Memoir of a Fascist Childhood By Trevor Grundy Recommended by Richard… Read more >
Dishy Rishi walks tall on a political tightrope as Britain faces becoming the Sick Man of Europe
Guy Hands, CEO of Terra Firma. His opinions are worth ten times more than anything coming out of the ever-open mouths of un-talented Conservative Party MPs By Trevor Grundy… Read more >
A Circus of Absurdity: Britons sink into despair as Tory spaceheads plot their own survival
A cross-section of Britian’s future leaders when they were young, before their hearts were an open cheque book. GUEST WRITER OF THE MONTH – CECIL JOHN RHODES (1853-1902) ‘I… Read more >
Commonwealth action is needed and needed now to find out who killed courageous Maltese journalist
By Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) Executive Committee Member William Horsley Sunday 16th October 2022 marks five years since investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in a remote-controlled car… Read more >
Italian election 2022: A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of born-again Fascism
A century after the Blackshirt March on Rome in October 1922, Benito Mussolini’s ghost is haunting Europe by TREVOR GRUNDY Apologies to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels… Read more >
‘Red List’ – New book gives a valuable insight into the world of M15 and the pro-communist wannabes it monitored
Book Review Red List – MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century by David Caute, Verso (2022) 404 pp. £25.00) Review by Trevor Grundy THE HISTORIAN and journalist… Read more >
Dark and darker shall days coming be . . . What shall ye do then who seek the light?
A deserted Kent beach, thanks to the greed of water companies and shareholders who care for nothing but their ever- swelling bank accounts. (Picture: Trevor Grundy) GUEST WRITER OF… Read more >
South Africans remember but world leaders elsewhere ignore the tenth anniversary of a massacre that rivals Sharpeville and Soweto
Strikers at Marikana, a platinum mining town in North West Province, South Africa in August 2012 When white police opened fire on black demonstrators at Sharpeville in March 1960,… Read more >