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
Leave or starve
17 Oct 2024
Threats to halt the supply of some arms owe more to next month’s presidential election than any real concern for the population of north Gaza. Meanwhile, the world awaits Israel’s latest ‘retaliation’ against Iran. Yassamine Mather reports on a region spiralling into hell
Wrong and right war politics
17 Oct 2024
Escalation, Storm Shadows and the danger of nuclear war between Russia and Nato should not be dismissed as a diversion, as unnecessary and dull. Jack Conrad replies to critics and welcomes a recent development
Waiting for the payback
10 Oct 2024
Though they have been repeatedly condemned as haram, some leading elements in the Iranian regime want to go for nuclear weapons, warns Yassamine Mather
What’s really behind the war?
10 Oct 2024
South Africa provides no strategic guide. The indigenous population is neither needed nor wanted. Zionism has two key strategic aims: ethnic cleansing and maintaining regional hegemony, Moshé Machover explains
Notes on the war
10 Oct 2024
It has, for the moment, become the forgotten war. Nonetheless, warns Jack Conrad, there is a distinct danger of escalation, even nuclear weapons, not least if the use of British Storm Shadows against Russia has been given the go-ahead
Establishing a principled left
03 Oct 2024
CPGB’s Provisional Central Committee calls for others on the left, individuals and organisations, in Britain and internationally, to discuss and agree this statement with a view to cementing principled unity and furthering the struggle against war and capitalism
Itching for war on four fronts
03 Oct 2024
Tehran’s theocratic regime has fallen into a ‘trap’ of Netanyahu’s making. With Israel wanting to fight Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Iran, the whole region looks in danger of being dragged down into a terrible conflagration. Yassamine Mather looks to the revolutionary politics of the working class
Don’t mention fake anti-Semitism
26 Sep 2024
Thousands marched in Liverpool to protest against Labour’s complicity with Israel, but, writes Ian Spencer, Lindsey German did not come out of things with flying colours
Third war begins
26 Sep 2024
Despite supposedly working ‘tirelessly’ for peace, the US is doing nothing to hold Israel back. Yassamine Mather warns that the war on Lebanon could conceivably see Iran dragged into the conflict
Political organisation is key
19 Sep 2024
Against the background of the escalation of the war in Ukraine, genocide in Gaza and a US election which may influence both, this month’s CPGB aggregate examined the drive to wider international conflict and the left’s political problems. Ian Spencer reports
Upping the ante
19 Sep 2024
Vladimir Putin warns that we are on brink of nuclear war, writes Eddie Ford. Perhaps, not yet, but with the kabuki dance over Storm Shadows the evidence of ‘mission creep’ is unmistakable
No illusions in Histadrut
12 Sep 2024
There is no possibility of a united Jewish-Arab working class politics at this historic juncture. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is using every and any excuse to keep the war in Gaza going, writes Yassamine Mather
Campaign continues to build
12 Sep 2024
Restrictions on protests, attempts to intimidate activists and suspension of export licences testify to the fact that the establishment is under massive pressure from below, says Carla Roberts
Revenge on the internet
05 Sep 2024
Encryption can be broken with a $5 wrench. The legal actions against Telegram and X show the fragility of free expression in the face of state power, argues Paul Demarty
Don’t bank on ayatollahs
05 Sep 2024
There are those, including on the ‘left’, who credit the Islamic Republic with being a bulwark of ‘anti‑imperialism’ and potentially the nemesis of Israel and US hegemony, writes Yassamine Mather