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 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
An unsafe technology
10 Mar 2022
Russian shelling near the Zaporizhzhia plant is a stark reminder of the inherently dangerous nature of nuclear power, warns Eddie Ford
Four anti-war nos
10 Mar 2022
Daniel Lazare welcomes the refusal of the DSA’s international committee to go along with the Democrats’ warmongering
Cementing US control
10 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair spoke to Online Communist Forum on the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s historic week-long visit to China
Away with comforting delusions
10 Mar 2022
‘Official communism’ is bitterly divided over the Ukraine war. Paul Demarty traces the battle lines back to their origins
Spineless of the little blob
10 Mar 2022
Its response to the Ukraine war shows the official Labour ‘left’ is sinking ever further into the mire, writes James Harvey
Swift as a weapon
03 Mar 2022
Sanctions imposed on Russia will hurt, but not only are there definite limits, they were long expected, writes Yassamine Mather
America’s drive to the east
03 Mar 2022
A volcano of violence has been unleashed by Putin’s invasion, but Daniel Lazare places the main blame on the United States
Neither 1914 nor 1940
03 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair interrogates the bogus claims made by Paul Mason and Alex Callinicos about imperialism and the Ukraine war
Here we stand
03 Mar 2022
Not only must social-imperialists and social-pacifists be denounced: Jack Conrad calls for absolute clarity, when it comes to war and peace