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
Destruction and instability
02 Apr 2026
Is Iran winning the war? Is mere survival victory? Yassamine Mather examines the structural changes taking place which have largely sidelined the position of supreme leader and brought the IRGC very much to the fore
We will not be silent
02 Apr 2026
Claims by the Irish government to be a staunch ally of Palestine have been well and truly exposed. However, while Micheál Martin kowtows before imperialism, members of Kneecap show a brave defiance. They are far from alone. Anne McShane reports
Talks, bluff and oil
26 Mar 2026
Doubtless negotiations are happening, but certainly not directly. Those negotiations might be about quickly ending the war, or about bringing down the price of oil and reassuring markets. Yassamine Mather explains what is probably going on
Madmen versus Marx
19 Mar 2026
Private property and war go hand-in-hand. Capitalism in turn has made wars ever bigger and ever more dangerous. How do we rescue human civilisation? Ted Reese outlines some of his answers
Don’t give in to the big lie
19 Mar 2026
Jeremy Corbyn got it wrong. So has Zohran Mamdani. We must oppose, not appease, media claims that opposition to Zionism is equivalent to anti-Semitism, writes Eddie Ford
Peering through the fog of war
19 Mar 2026
One leader after another is being assassinated. Apart from that, Trump’s war aims remain contradictory and unclear. The regime is certainly not going to spontaneously collapse, argues Yassamine Mather
Within the circle of fire
12 Mar 2026
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces acute problems on every front. Now there is the US-Israel assault on Iran. How will Turkey respond? Esen Uslu gives his take on regional rivalries and the challenges faced by the left
Satellite-guided war of terror
12 Mar 2026
Not so long ago Trump was saying that there would be a popular welcome for US intervention. A big lie: the working class has always opposed regime change from above. Yassamine Mather assesses the battle for hearts and minds
Nur - a regional collective
05 Mar 2026
Statement issued by Moshé Machover and Yassamine Mather
Defeat US-Israeli aggression, defend the peoples of Iran
05 Mar 2026
Numerous bogus excuses have been concocted for an extraordinarily dangerous war. We reject them all. This is a nakedly imperialist war by America designed to weaken China and ensure the regional hegemony of Zionist Israel. Yassamine Mather calls for revolutionary defencism
Eagle vs dragon
26 Feb 2026
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond fancy software and millions of chips. Today it is about geostrategic competition between the US and China. Yassamine Mather investigates how these two countries have adopted two different approaches
A strange endgame
26 Feb 2026
Did Chávez and Maduro preside over a brave ‘socialist’ experiment? No, argues Michael Roberts - it was the absence of socialist policies, not least to end the sabotage of the economy, that brought the country to its knees
Marxist or liberal foreign policy?
19 Feb 2026
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a splash at the Munich security conference with a ‘left’ defence of US power, writes Paul Demarty. Can the Democratic Socialists of America hold its elects to account?
The dog and the tail
19 Feb 2026
Many, including on the left, believe that America’s support for Israel damages its national interests, that the explanation for the irrational behaviour lies with the sinister influence of the pro-Israel lobby, even wealthy Jews. Moshé Machover disagrees. American support for Israel is not irrational: it serves its national interests
Notes on the war
19 Feb 2026
Four years since the launch of the ‘special military operation’, Russia is predictably bogged down in a war of attrition. Exactly what the US wanted, says Jack Conrad. But now we have Trump, the trifecta and the shredding of the post-World War II order