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
A farrago of illusions
14 Apr 2022
Social-Putinism and social-imperialism are not our only problem, argues Jack Conrad. There is the curse of social‑pacifism and centrism too
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part III)
07 Apr 2022
Capitalism produces huge wealth and huge inequalities, both of which play a role in recurring crises
Resistance to war fever
07 Apr 2022
Amidst the suffocating establishment consensus, Toby Abse welcomes the relatively principled position taken by much of the Italian left
The war party
07 Apr 2022
With the Republican right still preaching isolationism, it is the Democrats who are now gung-ho for wars and military adventures, writes Daniel Lazare
Alex’s greater friend
07 Apr 2022
The SWP is clearly motivated by opportunist considerations, not least the fall-out from the Martin Smith rape scandal. We do not owe politeness to renegades, argues Paul Demarty
End of phase one
31 Mar 2022
As shown by the talks in Istanbul, Vladimir Putin has already lost what could still be a horrible, grizzly, prolonged war. Jack Conrad gives his assessment
What hath Zbig wrought?
31 Mar 2022
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s grand strategy is alive and well under Biden, writes Daniel Lazare
Peace-loving liberals for war
31 Mar 2022
The rhetoric of the anti-war movement has been coopted by the war party in the west, argues Paul Demarty
Continuing escalation
31 Mar 2022
Despite the Ukraine war and a pending nuclear deal, Iran is still firmly in Israel’s sights, reports Yassamine Mather
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part II)
24 Mar 2022
The capitalist state is a form of joint-stock operation. It is, in origin, a joint venture of the bourgeois revolutionaries
Taking a principled position
24 Mar 2022
Yassamine Mather takes to task the left in the Middle East and north Africa over Nato and Russia’s invasion
Putin to the rescue
24 Mar 2022
Ukraine has saved Boris Johnson’s bacon and he knows it, writes Eddie Ford
Key issue is not Russia
24 Mar 2022
Left must oppose the invasion of Ukraine, insists Tony Greenstein, but who bears ultimate responsibility for the carnage?
Nazis? What Nazis?
24 Mar 2022
One thing is clearly missing from the media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, argues Daniel Lazare
A tale of two wars
24 Mar 2022
As the western powers furiously denounce Russian aggression, they continue to aid and abet the Saudi war in Yemen, writes Paul Demarty