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
Corona days and clipped wings
21 May 2020
Esen Uslu looks at the regime’s failures at home and adventures abroad
Upping the ante
30 Apr 2020
Yassamine Mather reports on the double standards, misinformation and stupidity of the ‘regime change from above’ advocates
Lies, poverty and repression
17 Apr 2020
Yassamine Mather looks at the blame-gaming and likely consequences of Covid-19
Two-way mirror of shame
12 Mar 2020
Erdoğan’s regime is playing with the lives of innocent victims to both its east and west. Esen Uslu describes the shambles.
Decline of secular Zionism
06 Mar 2020
Despite indictments for corruption, Netanyahu has come out on top, writes Tony Greenstein.
Concealing the truth
29 Feb 2020
The clerical regime cannot be relied on to provide accurate information, writes Yassamine Mather - either about Iran’s elections or the coronavirus.
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’.
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.
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.
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
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
Nice British bobby
12 Dec 2019
Yassamine Mather compares Radio Farda’s reporting of Iran with its touching depiction of Britain.
Regime faces new crisis
23 Nov 2019
Tehran has blocked the internet in a desperate attempt to suppress protests, reports Yassamine Mather.