Imperialism & War > Middle East
None of the above
07 Jun 2012
Calling on Egyptians to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood is insane, argues Paul Demarty
BDS: for or against?
17 Feb 2022
Israeli settler-colonialism and the appropriate solidarity movement with the Palestinians were debated at the February 13 Online Communist Forum. Daniel Lazare argued that the BDS campaign is a cross-class popular front which therefore should be shunned. Mike Macnair stressed the US alliance with Israel, attempts to outlaw BDS and the ongoing witch-hunt against anti-Zionists in the Labour Party
Behind Israeli apartheid
10 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it
In the final round
03 Feb 2022
Neither Russia nor China can afford to come to the rescue. Yassamine Mather shows that for Iran a great deal hangs on the results of the Vienna negotiations
Fuelling the cauldron
03 Feb 2022
Esen Uslu reports on the short-termist cuts in interest rates and the resulting inflation and political turmoil
From right to right
27 Jan 2022
Yassamine Mather investigates some of the well-paid ‘independent’ experts and journalists who constantly appear in the western media
Clarifying the Arab Spring
27 Jan 2022
Fouad Mami reviews 'The republic of false truths' by Alaa Al-Aswany (Faber and Faber, London 2021, pp464, £12.79)
Economy in meltdown
20 Jan 2022
Amid unpaid wages, soaring inflation and daily protests in Iran, the Vienna negotiations drag on, reports Yassamine Mather
No change of line
20 Jan 2022
Mike Macnair responds to Daniel Lazare on BDS, the Israel Jewish working class and the necessity of opposing the witch-hunt
Path to nowhere
20 Jan 2022
Daniel Lazare accuses his critics of burying their heads in the sand over the nature of the BDS campaign
Factory of falsehoods
06 Jan 2022
Moshé Machover slams the hypocrisy of an Israeli aggressor state demanding sympathy as a victim state
Vienna means everything
16 Dec 2021
Negotiations are proceeding through carrot and stick brinkmanship on both sides. Meanwhile, reports Yassamine Mather, workers are striking and protesting out of sheer desperation
Getting BDS and DSA right
16 Dec 2021
Not surprisingly, last week’s article by Daniel Lazare, ‘Taking a pass on Israel’, has caused some considerable controversy. Thankfully, three well-informed comrades have written replies. Needless to say, our sympathies are fully with the critics
Sabotage, scientists, sanctions
09 Dec 2021
Soheil Behrang reports that amid the P5+1 negotiations in Vienna, Mossad is playing a dangerous game
Thin end of the wedge
02 Dec 2021
We should oppose both the banning of Hamas and its leftwing apologists, writes Eddie Ford
Storm clouds gather
02 Dec 2021
Foreign policy has already been affected by the nosediving lira, but, argues, Esen Uslu, there is also the distinct possibility of mass protests over prices and wages