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
Articulate attack dog
10 Apr 2025
Despite being from a troubled background, JD Vance found the help of some very rich friends. Mike Belbin looks at the ideas, compromises and ambitions of the US vice president
Escalation on the cards
03 Apr 2025
After the exchange of letters, maximum pressure sanctions and the almost comical revelations of ‘Signalgate’, Yassamine Mather warns that Trump might soon give the green light for a punishment war against Iran
A sea of red and white
03 Apr 2025
It was to be a test of strength. As it was, some 2.2 million turned out in Istanbul’s Maltepe Park. Esen Uslu reports on the latest and biggest anti-regime protest yet
We happy few
28 Mar 2025
The latest ‘world happiness rankings’ are out, with the usual suspects at the top and the bottom. Major change is unlikely so long as imperial power survives, suggests Paul Demarty
From welfare to warfare
28 Mar 2025
We are returning to ‘military Keynesianism’, but will the ‘war dividend’ result in the end of stagnation and an economic boom? Michael Roberts doubts it
Zionism opens gates of hell
28 Mar 2025
The Palestinian masses are threatened by genocide and ethnic cleansing, but Israeli settler-colonialism is riven with profound contradictions and can be beaten. Jack Conrad outlines the communist plan
Divine right of CEOs
20 Mar 2025
What explains the dominance of the ‘tech right’? Paul Demarty traces the ideological evolution of the Silicon Valley oligarchs from new-age woo to the hard right
Notes on America
20 Mar 2025
Donald Trump’s administration is contemplating a grand reordering of global finance and trade. Europe will suffer, but, argues Jack Conrad, China is the main target
A century of illusions
13 Mar 2025
Royalist fortunes hinge on Donald Trump, but also on promoting the personality cult of Reza Khan. Yassamine Mather looks at the rise and fall of a mountebank
Trump greenlights ethnic cleansing
13 Mar 2025
As Zionists triumphantly talk of Palestine being on the ‘threshold of the gates of hell’ and ‘absolute victory’, Jack Conrad presents the communist strategy for winning the Israeli-Jewish working class
Theatre of cruelty
06 Mar 2025
Zelensky’s humiliation in the Oval Office was a cynical setup. But for that we should be grateful, says Eddie Ford, as it lifted the curtain on what normally happens behind closed doors
Notes on the war
20 Feb 2025
Three years since the launch of the ‘special military operation’, the post-World War II order is being shredded by America. Trump is a revolutionary counterrevolutionary, says Jack Conrad
The American Sulla
13 Feb 2025
Concessions won during the New Deal and the civil rights era are under attack. The old world order is being shredded. Edith Fischer, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation in Australia, looks at Trump 2.0 and his programme
Organise to stop genocide
13 Feb 2025
Take Trump’s plans seriously, says Yassamine Mather. Not the ‘riviera’ stuff, but the clearing out of Palestinians from Gaza. That explains why there has been a welcome across the Zionist spectrum
Terror of colonialism
06 Feb 2025
George Evans reviews Caroline Elkins Legacy of violence: a history of the British empire Vintage 2022, pp872, £16.99