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
Overdrawn lessons
26 Mar 2020
The USA needs socialism, writes Jim Creegan, not a democratic revolution.
Two-way mirror of shame
12 Mar 2020
Erdoğan’s regime is playing with the lives of innocent victims to both its east and west. Esen Uslu describes the shambles.
The great Bernie bust
12 Mar 2020
It is now all but certain that Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate, writes Daniel Lazare.
Decline of secular Zionism
06 Mar 2020
Despite indictments for corruption, Netanyahu has come out on top, writes Tony Greenstein.
Primary contradictions
06 Mar 2020
Jim Creegan assesses the battle for the Democratic nomination. The left has a real opportunity.
The war is set to continue
06 Mar 2020
Trump’s agreement with the Taliban shows that the United States has comprehensively failed in achieving its stated objectives, argues Yassamine Mather.
Subordinate to the bourgeoisie
29 Feb 2020
It is true that Sanders is mobilising the working class, writes Daniel Lazare. But for what?
Concealing the truth
29 Feb 2020
The clerical regime cannot be relied on to provide accurate information, writes Yassamine Mather - either about Iran’s elections or the coronavirus.
‘Socialist’ frontrunner causes panic
29 Feb 2020
America’s ‘ideologically pure’ presidential candidate actually fights back against the anti-Semitism smears, Paul Demarty reports.
Explosive contradictions
23 Feb 2020
Daniel Lazare looks at America’s primitive constitution, the Sanders surge and asks ... ‘what if’.
Legacy of failure
23 Feb 2020
Yassamine Mather shows that the passivity of Tudeh in the 1960s and 70s led to the rise of guerrillarist adventurism. Paradoxically, under the pressure of the Iran-Iraq war there was a convergence between the two currents. The Islamic Republic was supposed to be moving towards the ‘socialist’ camp.
181 pages oozing hate
23 Feb 2020
Moshé Machover spoke to the London Communist Forum about Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’.
Imperialist idol
09 Feb 2020
Chris Gray considers the fabulous wealth, conquests and dreams of Cecil Rhodes.
Stronger than ever
09 Feb 2020
While it is good that Trump was acquitted, writes Daniel Lazare, the slide into authoritarianism is now set to continue.
The Huawei panic and US decline
09 Feb 2020
A dispute over the building of the UK’s 5G network exposes the ambiguous role of military competition in capitalist progress, argues Paul Demarty.