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
First, they came for …
25 Jan 2024
The ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrates that our rulers have no effective way to control the Gaza narrative other than by legally silencing critics, argues Paul Demarty
A drop in the ocean
18 Jan 2024
Houthis are no mere proxies of Iran, argues Yassamine Mather. They have their own political goals and agenda
Is Hamas anti-Semitic?
18 Jan 2024
October 7 was an attack directed against Israelis - not because they were Jews, but because they were occupiers. Tony Greenstein accuses Dan Lazare of being an apologist for Zionism
Stopping Trump juggernaut
18 Jan 2024
Sleepy Joe is driving voters into Republican arms. The more he tries to stop Trump, the stronger Trump gets, argues Daniel Lazare
Orders for a killing
11 Jan 2024
Assassinating political opponents frequently has a paradoxical effect: instead of weakening and defeating, it strengthens, argues Yassamine Mather
After October 7
11 Jan 2024
The war in Gaza has to be put in regional, global and historic context. Moshé Machover talked to Yassamine Mather at a Voice of Revolution meeting held online on December 20
How Britain helped create Israel
11 Jan 2024
Tony Greenstein and Thomas Suarez discussed ‘The Ottoman Empire, the 1917 Balfour Declaration and Zionism before 1948’. Kenneth Syme reports on the December 21 Why Marx? webinar
Showing exceptional weakness
11 Jan 2024
Claudine Gay wants to defend the status quo against the radical right. But since the status quo is indefensible, it’s a lost cause, says Daniel Lazare
Threats mask timid actions
04 Jan 2024
Yassamine Mather says that neither the US nor Iran want an all-out war, but after the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut and the bomb attacks on Qasem Soleimani’s admirers, tensions are reaching breaking-point
Not a religious war
04 Jan 2024
Daniel Lazare lumps Hamas together with the Zionists, argues Tony Greenstein. But socialists should unconditionally support the oppressed
Joining the living dead
04 Jan 2024
Carla Roberts wishes she was surprised that Jon Lansman has joined the Jewish Labour Movement
CPGB Provisional Central Committee: Statement on Israel-Gaza war
04 Jan 2024
Notes on the war
14 Dec 2023
With the failure of Zelensky’s offensive there can be no doubt that there is a stalemate now. Perfect conditions for unofficial ceasefires and fraternisation, argues Jack Conrad
Far from pacified
07 Dec 2023
There can be no possibility of a military solution in Gaza. October 7 was a death trip, argues Daniel Lazare
Zionist drives and divisions
07 Dec 2023
Eradicating Hamas provides a useful cover, but everything points to ethnic cleansing, says Moshé Machover