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
Risks and horrors of AUKUS
08 Feb 2024
Labor’s ‘left’ faction around Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong has openly and unashamedly embraced the alliance with US imperialism, now it is in government, says Martin Greenfield
Why is there a drug war?
08 Feb 2024
Mass incarceration and police brutality are no answer to either the gangs or drug-related health issues, argues Daniel Lazare
Sound and fury of battle
08 Feb 2024
Once pan-Arab socialism counted as a real force in the world, its most famous leader being Gamal Abdel Nasser. Yassamine Mather looks back at his heady rhetoric and ultimate failure
A culture of apology
08 Feb 2024
David Miller is worth more than the whole pack of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs put together. Apologising makes you complicit, but taking a stand brings vindication, writes Eddie Ford
Clear the smoke and mirrors
01 Feb 2024
Zionism relies on anti-Semitism and is itself a form of anti-Semitism. Thomas Suárez discusses the ability of the Israeli state to excuse its crimes and silence critics
Full-spectrum complicity
01 Feb 2024
By ‘suspending’ funding, the west’s diversionary campaign against UNRWA gives the lie to bourgeois cant about ‘genocide prevention’, argues Paul Demarty
Rivals or allies?
25 Jan 2024
It was not in revenge for Kerman. Yassamine Mather explains what really lay behind the recent missile attack on Pakistan
A comedy of errors
25 Jan 2024
Vastly expensive, unsafe and inextricably linked to weapons of mass destruction - Eddie Ford rejects the madness of nuclear power
Israel-Gaza war and communist strategy
25 Jan 2024
Theses agreed by January 21 aggregate of CPGB members, including the two agreed amendments
A stale left in a tumultuous world
25 Jan 2024
There were two topics on the agenda: the Israel-Gaza war and the coming general election. Scott Evans reports on the January 21 aggregate for CPGB members and supporters
First, they came for …
25 Jan 2024
The ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrates that our rulers have no effective way to control the Gaza narrative other than by legally silencing critics, argues Paul Demarty
A drop in the ocean
18 Jan 2024
Houthis are no mere proxies of Iran, argues Yassamine Mather. They have their own political goals and agenda
Is Hamas anti-Semitic?
18 Jan 2024
October 7 was an attack directed against Israelis - not because they were Jews, but because they were occupiers. Tony Greenstein accuses Dan Lazare of being an apologist for Zionism
Stopping Trump juggernaut
18 Jan 2024
Sleepy Joe is driving voters into Republican arms. The more he tries to stop Trump, the stronger Trump gets, argues Daniel Lazare
Orders for a killing
11 Jan 2024
Assassinating political opponents frequently has a paradoxical effect: instead of weakening and defeating, it strengthens, argues Yassamine Mather