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
US eyes turn east
23 Oct 2003
The successful launch and return to earth of Shenzhou 5, China's first manned spacecraft, on October 14-15, could well turn out to be highly significant. Kit Robinson comments
'Zionist' AWL in turmoil
23 Oct 2003
Ian Donovan comments on the internal fight in the Alliance for Workers' Liberty: over the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq war and the politics of the Middle East in general
A brief history of lying
01 May 2003
If Galloway proves to be innocent, he will join a large club of those who have been maligned by the intelligence services and the press for political reasons. A few examples:
Gloves come off
01 May 2003
By coming after George Galloway, the bourgeois media is trying to tarnish the whole anti-war movement, says Manny Neira
Slogan wars
01 May 2003
Jack Conrad discusses the problems of the left when it comes to opposition to an attack on Iraq
Armchair generals, or Saddam's leftwing allies
13 Mar 2003
Many on the left entertain an agenda - overt or covert - of defending the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein. Jack Conrad takes them to task
Distortion, slush and chauvinism
21 Jun 2001
Michael Bray (director) Pearl Harbor 182 minutes, general release
Turkey in crisis
12 Apr 2001
Hands off Iraq
22 Feb 2001
For a working class-led people's revolution against Saddam Hussein
Rabid reaction
30 Nov 2000
Israel's pogrom
19 Oct 2000
All socialists, all defenders of the rights of the oppressed, must stand unconditionally with the Palestinian people of the West Bank and Gaza strip, and their co-nationals in Israel proper, against the murderous ethnic terror of the Israeli state. Socialists should demand, as a starting point, the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied territories, and the disarming and repatriation of the gangs of armed Jewish settlers that have encamped in these territories, whose very presence constitutes a violation of Palestinian sovereignty.
Heart of darkness
21 Sep 2000
Mehdi Kia of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran discusses the crisis dividing the theocratic regime in Teheran and the significance of the recent 'reformist' election victories
Nader builds third force
14 Sep 2000
Green-blue challenge to big two
Banal identity reasoning
16 Dec 1999
Phil Watson reviews 'John Coltrane and the jazz revolution of the 1960s' by Frank Kofsky
Russia’s apologists
09 Dec 1999
Morning Star and Chechnya