WeeklyWorker

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

Build working class resistance

19 Jun 2025

Arms shipments to and from Israel are being blocked in many countries - an example that trade unions in Britain can be won to follow. There is no time to lose, says Ian Spencer

Zionism’s dual war aims

19 Jun 2025

Netanyahu has been wanting to attack Iran for years. Now that the war with Iran has begun, he can finish the job in Gaza and the West Bank, warns Moshé Machover

Peering into the darkness

19 Jun 2025

Yassamine Mather questions the western nuclear bomb narrative, discounts the chances of managed regime change and insists that Israel’s war is not only against the regime. Millions of ordinary Iranians are in danger and must be defended

Devouring the prey and drinking the blood of the slain

19 Jun 2025

Netanyahu is bent on death, destruction and gore. Donald Trump gave the green light - that much is obvious. Now he has approved attack plans and is demanding ‘unconditional surrender’. Jack Conrad presents the communist alternative to capitalist barbarism and war

Pro-Palestine symbolism

12 Jun 2025

Rival demonstrations brought large numbers on to the streets of Cork. Some want to drape themselves in the Irish tricolour, others raise the red flag of internationalism. Anne McShane reports

Food used as bait

05 Jun 2025

Israel is starving the Gazan population to ready them for mass expulsion, warns Eddie Ford. After that it will be the West Bank and then the Arab-Palestinian population in ‘Israel proper’

Kurdish entanglements

29 May 2025

Laying down arms and dissolving the PKK has been hailed by some optimists as a ‘victory’. Yassamine Mather strongly disagrees and instead sees the defeat of the Kurdish people both in Turkey and Syria

Red lines and regional gambits

22 May 2025

Trump’s visit to the Middle East garnered all manner of mega-sized business deals. However, unspoken, in the background, there were two looming issues, Gaza and the US-Iran nuclear talks. Yassamine Mather looks at the likelihood of an agreement

Death by degrees

22 May 2025

It is not just Netanyahu and his far right coalition government. Ethnic cleansing and genocide are built into the DNA of the Zionist project. And, of course, the British state is fully complicit, explains Eddie Ford

Silence of the Beeb

22 May 2025

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Despite recent token gestures, the Gazan population faces starvation. David Lammy huffs and puffs but allows the export of arms to continue. As for Donald Trump, says Ian Spencer, he is more interested in real-estate deals

Watershed moment

15 May 2025

Abdullah Öcalan’s huge moral authority predictably prevailed. Esen Uslu comments on the many questions that arise following the PKK’s historic decision to lay down arms and end its armed struggle

Fifty years on

15 May 2025

Left organisations, writers and academics alike have been drawing the wrong lessons. They think Vietnam can be repeated in Palestine … anywhere. Direct action by isolated small groups and broad fronts have become their common coin, argues Mike Macnair

When Louis met Moloch

15 May 2025

Paul Demarty reviews Josh Baker (director), Louis Theroux (presenter and writer) Louis Theroux: the settlers BBC 2 2025

Saying it loud and clear

15 May 2025

Targeting Belfast rap group, Kneecap, over alleged terrorism, is part of the campaign to silence anyone who dares speak out against Israel and its Gaza genocide, writes Anne McShane

From Balfour to genocide

15 May 2025

Starvation, denial of aid, the current military escalation of Zionist violence into attempted genocide should be viewed in the context a century of colonial dispossession, writes Yassamine Mather

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