Imperialism & War > Middle East
None of the above
07 Jun 2012
Calling on Egyptians to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood is insane, argues Paul Demarty
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
Joining the living dead
04 Jan 2024
Carla Roberts wishes she was surprised that Jon Lansman has joined the Jewish Labour Movement
CPGB Provisional Central Committee: Statement on Israel-Gaza war
04 Jan 2024
ABCs of Muslim Brothers
07 Dec 2023
Jack Conrad looks at MAB, its internal power struggles, its relationship to the British state and its encounters with the popular-frontist left. Last of three articles
Cowards, careerists and Corbyn diehards
23 Nov 2023
Momentum MP Navendu Mishra claims to be in favour of a Gaza ceasefire. Despite that he followed Starmer’s orders to abstain, reports Carla Roberts
ABCs of Muslim Brothers
23 Nov 2023
In the first of three articles, Jack Conrad looks at the origins, evolution and current reality of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain, Egypt and internationally
March of time
16 Nov 2023
There were peaceful multitudes from front to end. Ian Spencer reports on London’s giant demonstration
Anti-Semitism and other lies
16 Nov 2023
Accusations against the Palestinian solidarity movement of hating Jews qua Jews are obvious nonsense, says Paul Demarty. Many Jews support the Palestinian cause and are welcomed and cheered
Doubling down on genocide
02 Nov 2023
Sir Keir’s Chatham House speech shows exactly where he stands. But, asks Kevin Bean, where will the official Labour left go, given the massive popular movement against Israel’s war on Gaza? An uncertain tincture of courage combines with continued fear for careers and expense accounts
Declaring moral bankruptcy
02 Nov 2023
Our leaders cannot justify Israel’s war on the Palestinians, writes Paul Demarty, so they slander protestors and try to suppress dissent in their own ranks
A Jewish crisis
02 Nov 2023
Zionism ≠ Judaism. Daniel Lazare looks at the effect that Israel’s oppression of Palestine is having on American Jews - as more and more of them join protests against the threat of genocide in Gaza
Joe Biden’s two-front war
26 Oct 2023
Economically more and more debt, diplomatically more and more enemies, militarily more and more wars. Daniel Lazare sees imperial overload
Etymology of terror
26 Oct 2023
Accusations of terrorism have become all but meaningless. Paul Demarty examines the strategy, tactics and hypocrisy of the T-word
Week in the hall of mirrors
19 Oct 2023
Reporting of Israel’s assault on Gaza provides an object lesson in how the bourgeois media works, argues Paul Demarty