This is the prepared presentation at today’s forum (11th January 2026). A recording of the presentation and discussion is here.

The toll of the Zionist war of extermination on Gaza’s civilian population of the two years of open genocide was horrendous – an essay by two doctors associated with the Lancet (journal of the British Medical Association) and drawing on material from that journal, postulated in September 2025 that the death toll from Israel’s Gaza slaughter was 680,000, more than two thirds of whom were children under 18.

The Consistent Democrats are critically supporting this slate in the CEC Elections for Your Party. The slate embodies a basic set of democratic and socialist principles, if only in outline.

Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the claimed abduction of President Maduro and his wife are outrageous acts of imperialist aggression that must be defeated by all means.

The Ukraine proxy war looks like it is coming to an end. Not through some kind of ‘peace’ agreement, though Trump’s sometime attempts to procure one have put the possibility on the agenda. But through a Russian victory.

Address that a Consistent Democrats spokesperson delivered on 8th November. to an event hosted by the New Communist Party to celebrate the anniversary of the Russian October Revolution of 1917.

US imperialism is reviving the Monroe Doctrine in its pursuit of regional hegemony. It is necessary to defend all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

We are not actually in World War III, yet, but with the serious and convulsive nature of the crises the world is facing today, anyone could be excused from wondering if a world conflict was imminent.

Your Party is a fragile creation right now.  The infant party founded by Zarah Sultana when she resigned from Labour in July and effectively demanded that Jeremy Corbyn act to do what he had been hinting and threatening to do for over a year – create such a party – has both shown signs of some real development, and at the same time been rent by proto-factional divisions.

This issue is obviously centred on Your Party, which is the most important development in the British working-class movement for many years, and despite numerous problems, appears to be taking root around the country in a manner that is very encouraging.