Imperialism & War
Grounds for optimism
03 Feb 2011
Israeli socialist Moshé Machover talks to Mark Fischer about the implications of the uprising in Egypt for the whole region
Full-spectrum complicity
01 Feb 2024
By ‘suspending’ funding, the west’s diversionary campaign against UNRWA gives the lie to bourgeois cant about ‘genocide prevention’, argues Paul Demarty
Rivals or allies?
25 Jan 2024
It was not in revenge for Kerman. Yassamine Mather explains what really lay behind the recent missile attack on Pakistan
A comedy of errors
25 Jan 2024
Vastly expensive, unsafe and inextricably linked to weapons of mass destruction - Eddie Ford rejects the madness of nuclear power
Israel-Gaza war and communist strategy
25 Jan 2024
Theses agreed by January 21 aggregate of CPGB members, including the two agreed amendments
A stale left in a tumultuous world
25 Jan 2024
There were two topics on the agenda: the Israel-Gaza war and the coming general election. Scott Evans reports on the January 21 aggregate for CPGB members and supporters
First, they came for …
25 Jan 2024
The ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrates that our rulers have no effective way to control the Gaza narrative other than by legally silencing critics, argues Paul Demarty
A drop in the ocean
18 Jan 2024
Houthis are no mere proxies of Iran, argues Yassamine Mather. They have their own political goals and agenda
Is Hamas anti-Semitic?
18 Jan 2024
October 7 was an attack directed against Israelis - not because they were Jews, but because they were occupiers. Tony Greenstein accuses Dan Lazare of being an apologist for Zionism
Stopping Trump juggernaut
18 Jan 2024
Sleepy Joe is driving voters into Republican arms. The more he tries to stop Trump, the stronger Trump gets, argues Daniel Lazare
Orders for a killing
11 Jan 2024
Assassinating political opponents frequently has a paradoxical effect: instead of weakening and defeating, it strengthens, argues Yassamine Mather
After October 7
11 Jan 2024
The war in Gaza has to be put in regional, global and historic context. Moshé Machover talked to Yassamine Mather at a Voice of Revolution meeting held online on December 20
How Britain helped create Israel
11 Jan 2024
Tony Greenstein and Thomas Suarez discussed ‘The Ottoman Empire, the 1917 Balfour Declaration and Zionism before 1948’. Kenneth Syme reports on the December 21 Why Marx? webinar
Showing exceptional weakness
11 Jan 2024
Claudine Gay wants to defend the status quo against the radical right. But since the status quo is indefensible, it’s a lost cause, says Daniel Lazare
Threats mask timid actions
04 Jan 2024
Yassamine Mather says that neither the US nor Iran want an all-out war, but after the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut and the bomb attacks on Qasem Soleimani’s admirers, tensions are reaching breaking-point
Not a religious war
04 Jan 2024
Daniel Lazare lumps Hamas together with the Zionists, argues Tony Greenstein. But socialists should unconditionally support the oppressed