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
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
Watershed moment
15 May 2025
Abdullah Öcalan’s huge moral authority predictably prevailed. Esen Uslu comments on the many questions that arise following the PKK’s historic decision to lay down arms and end its armed struggle
Fifty years on
15 May 2025
Left organisations, writers and academics alike have been drawing the wrong lessons. They think Vietnam can be repeated in Palestine … anywhere. Direct action by isolated small groups and broad fronts have become their common coin, argues Mike Macnair
When Louis met Moloch
15 May 2025
Paul Demarty reviews Josh Baker (director), Louis Theroux (presenter and writer) Louis Theroux: the settlers BBC 2 2025
Saying it loud and clear
15 May 2025
Targeting Belfast rap group, Kneecap, over alleged terrorism, is part of the campaign to silence anyone who dares speak out against Israel and its Gaza genocide, writes Anne McShane
From Balfour to genocide
15 May 2025
Starvation, denial of aid, the current military escalation of Zionist violence into attempted genocide should be viewed in the context a century of colonial dispossession, writes Yassamine Mather
Cruel and unusual punishment
08 May 2025
Trump’s use of prisons in El Salvador as a means of terrorising migrants is a flagrant attack on constitutional rights and the rule of law, writes Ian Spencer