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
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
A toxic operation
24 Mar 2022
Paul Houston shines a light on the murky origins of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part I)
17 Mar 2022
Early, not late, capitalism generated imperialism, and capitalism without the state is impossible
First Iran, now Russia
17 Mar 2022
Sanctions, whether ‘targeted’ or not, inevitably affect the mass of ordinary people, argues Yassamine Mather, while those at the top use them to tighten their grip on power
Triumphalism to pessimism
17 Mar 2022
Does the Russia-Ukraine war epitomise a crisis of liberalism brought about by attacks from the populist right and the so-called anti-scientific left? Perhaps so - but not in the way Francis Fukuyama imagines, suggests Paul Demarty
Drawing clear lines on Ukraine
17 Mar 2022
The war is not just about Russia and Ukraine. Muriel Green reports on the CPGB’s March 12 online members’ meeting
Hypocrisy all round
10 Mar 2022
Moshé Machover highlights the selective condemnations of oppression and explains why Israel’s prime minister can pose as the peacemaker