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
From right to right
27 Jan 2022
Yassamine Mather investigates some of the well-paid ‘independent’ experts and journalists who constantly appear in the western media
Clarifying the Arab Spring
27 Jan 2022
Fouad Mami reviews 'The republic of false truths' by Alaa Al-Aswany (Faber and Faber, London 2021, pp464, £12.79)
Sheer unadulterated murder
27 Jan 2022
Kevin Bean looks back to the events of Bloody Sunday and blames the killings not merely on individual members of the paratroop regiment but those sitting round the cabinet table in Downing Street
On the brink of war?
27 Jan 2022
The US drive to subordinate Russia, not Putin’s imperial ambitions, are the main explanation for any further conflict, argues Paul Demarty
Economy in meltdown
20 Jan 2022
Amid unpaid wages, soaring inflation and daily protests in Iran, the Vienna negotiations drag on, reports Yassamine Mather
No change of line
20 Jan 2022
Mike Macnair responds to Daniel Lazare on BDS, the Israel Jewish working class and the necessity of opposing the witch-hunt
Path to nowhere
20 Jan 2022
Daniel Lazare accuses his critics of burying their heads in the sand over the nature of the BDS campaign
An uncertain situation
20 Jan 2022
Discounting the danger of Islamic reaction is more than stupid. Paul Demarty looks at the Kazakh uprising and the CSTO intervention
Calluses on our souls
13 Jan 2022
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Nigger - an autobiography' by Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte (Plume 2019, pp235, £19.79)
Rise of the killer machines
13 Jan 2022
It is no longer dystopian sc-fi. Yassamine Mather looks at the race to develop and deploy autonomous lethal weapons
Factory of falsehoods
06 Jan 2022
Moshé Machover slams the hypocrisy of an Israeli aggressor state demanding sympathy as a victim state
Creating a carnival of reaction
06 Jan 2022
James Harvey looks at how and why the island of Ireland was partitioned one hundred years ago
Failed with flying colours
06 Jan 2022
Contemporary US capitalism has shown a complete inability to renew itself through reform, argues Jim Creegan
Disarray over abortion
06 Jan 2022
Anne McShane looks at the right’s assault on abortion in the US, the DSA’s abstentionism and the shameful record of what still passes for the left
Vienna means everything
16 Dec 2021
Negotiations are proceeding through carrot and stick brinkmanship on both sides. Meanwhile, reports Yassamine Mather, workers are striking and protesting out of sheer desperation