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

Nowhere else to go

26 Jun 2025

Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran was a predictable betrayal of his pitch to voters. But, asks Paul Demarty, who else are they to vote for? Especially when it comes to elections, memories are short

Besieged, battered and badly led

26 Jun 2025

Even before the bombing, Iran was an economic wreck. Years of sanctions and endemic corruption have produced poverty for millions. Michael Roberts describes a failed state

War, genocide and ceasefire

26 Jun 2025

Iranian left - within the country and without - must facilitate, encourage and take full advantage of any loosening of the ayatollahs' grip, through an immediate programme designed to defend the lives and interests of the broad mass of the population. A statement of the CPGB Provisional Central Committee

Order of the day

26 Jun 2025

There is much common ground on the revolutionary left in Turkey when it comes to Israel’s attack on Iran. However, Esen Uslu shows that there are distinguishing fault lines too

Carnival of the oppressed

26 Jun 2025

Midsummer day’s 350,000-strong Palestine demonstration in London was a defiant, disciplined protest against genocide, war and an increasingly repressive British state, writes Ian Spencer

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

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