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
Explosive contradictions
23 Feb 2020
Daniel Lazare looks at America’s primitive constitution, the Sanders surge and asks ... ‘what if’.
Legacy of failure
23 Feb 2020
Yassamine Mather shows that the passivity of Tudeh in the 1960s and 70s led to the rise of guerrillarist adventurism. Paradoxically, under the pressure of the Iran-Iraq war there was a convergence between the two currents. The Islamic Republic was supposed to be moving towards the ‘socialist’ camp.
181 pages oozing hate
23 Feb 2020
Moshé Machover spoke to the London Communist Forum about Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’.
Imperialist idol
09 Feb 2020
Chris Gray considers the fabulous wealth, conquests and dreams of Cecil Rhodes.
Stronger than ever
09 Feb 2020
While it is good that Trump was acquitted, writes Daniel Lazare, the slide into authoritarianism is now set to continue.
The Huawei panic and US decline
09 Feb 2020
A dispute over the building of the UK’s 5G network exposes the ambiguous role of military competition in capitalist progress, argues Paul Demarty.
The destruction factor
24 Jan 2020
Judging by recent events in the Middle East, the US has abandoned all attempts to impose order. Now the world has a nihilist hegemon, argues Yassamine Mather.
America, the robotic
24 Jan 2020
Daniel Lazare examines the role of a reactionary constitution in the battle over Trump’s impeachment.
A new adventure
16 Jan 2020
Esen Uslu discusses Erdoğan’s expansionism in the eastern Mediterranean and its recent intervention into the Libyan civil war.
Fury, frustration and volatility
16 Jan 2020
Daniel Lazare examines the dilemmas, contradictions and warmongering of US imperialism.
No to war, no to the regime
16 Jan 2020
Yassamine Mather analyses the continuing US-Iran conflict. This article is based on her talk to the January 12 meeting of Hands Off the People of Iran.
Fight on two fronts
16 Jan 2020
Trump’s reckless drone assassination was a godsend for the reactionary theocratic regime in Tehran
Champion assassinator
16 Jan 2020
Moshé Machover focused on the Israeli aspect in his address to the Hopi meeting.
A godsend for the regime
09 Jan 2020
Yassamine Mather assesses the situation in the Middle East following the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Iran’s missile revenge gesture
Oppose the clerical regime too
12 Dec 2019
Reply to open letter from Hands Off the People of Iran.