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
14th amendment threat
25 May 2023
The debt-ceiling crisis is the direct result of the antiquated constitution, argues Daniel Lazare, but ‘emergency measures’ would be a gift for Trump
Notes on the war
25 May 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin maintains that every centimetre of Bakhmut has been taken, but Ukraine’s much heralded spring offensive is still to come. Jack Conrad looks at the military and political situation
Demography is not destiny
25 May 2023
Sinn Féin is now the biggest party in local government. But, asks Kevin Bean, what does this mean for the prospects of some kind of national reunification?
Disenchanted with the west
18 May 2023
Yassamine Mather gives her impressions of Turkey after 20 years of AKP rule and the evident failure of secularism from above
Hanging on a knife’s edge
04 May 2023
Though the opposition appears to have a narrow lead ahead of this month’s general election, the regime has plenty of dirty tricks up its sleeve. Esen Uslu reports on Erdoğan-style campaigning
Rupert’s American debacle
27 Apr 2023
The spectacular settlement with Dominion Election Systems is an index of both political dysfunction and the role of the rightwing media, argues Paul Demarty
Recipe for conflict
27 Apr 2023
Michael Roberts examines the continued role of the dollar, despite the hype about US decline and a multipolar world economy
Ex-shah’s nonentity son
20 Apr 2023
Twenty years after the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq, this catastrophe is still a potent factor in the politics of Iran. And yet, as Yassamine Mather reports, there are still those exiles who hanker after a repeat
Back to the old sod
20 Apr 2023
Carefully scripted and tightly choreographed, Biden’s Irish visit was really about November 2024. Kevin Bean looks at the electoral politics of ‘Oirishness’
Reinforcing state control
20 Apr 2023
There is a close link between a hegemon’s diminishing role and that of the media, argues Daniel Lazare
Their army and ours
20 Apr 2023
Marxists prefer peace to war, but, as Jack Conrad explains, with us that must go hand-in-hand with making propaganda for the right to bear arms and the establishment of a popular militia
Hijab defiance continues
13 Apr 2023
Yassamine Mather reports on the regime’s attempt to regain its authority and the splits and divisions in the royalist camp
Erdoğan’s power play
06 Apr 2023
Esen Uslu investigates the vote for Finland’s membership and then stonewalling over Sweden’s
From order to chaos
23 Mar 2023
Why has so much of the left collapsed into social-imperialism? Why the continued illusions in US intervention? Mike Macnair talked to Hands off the People of Iran in a meeting hosted by Yassamine Mather
Counting stolen elections
23 Mar 2023
At last we have definitive confirmation that the Republicans were urging Iran not to release US hostages until Ronald Reagan was elected. Daniel Lazare comments