Imperialism & War > Protoimperialism
Imperialism before Lenin
08 Mar 2012
Mike Macnair reviews: Richard B Day and Daniel Gaido (editors and translators) Discovering imperialism: social democracy to World War I Brill 2012, Historical Materialism book series, Vol 33, pp951,
Collaboration with Nazism
11 Aug 2022
Gaby Rubin reviews Zionism during the holocaust: the weaponisation of holocaust memory in the service of state and nation by Tony Greenstein (2022, pp488)
MBS goes ballistic
05 May 2022
Disillusioned with the US, Riyadh refuses to condemn Russia, threatens to become a nuclear power and pivots towards China. Yassamine Mather investigates the shifting politics of the Middle East
Plucky little Kiev
03 Feb 2022
Self-determination is not an absolute principle. We in the western left must train our main fire on our own warmongers, argues Paul Demarty
An uncertain situation
20 Jan 2022
Discounting the danger of Islamic reaction is more than stupid. Paul Demarty looks at the Kazakh uprising and the CSTO intervention
Turkey’s arms industry is on a war footing - High-risk foreign adventures
12 Jul 2019
Erdoğan has been engaging in lavish military spending despite the poor state of the economy, reports Esen Uslu
Saudi hit is another godsend for Erdoğan
25 Oct 2018
Esen Uslu looks at the cynical power play going on over the murdered Jamal Khashoggi
Imperialism before Lenin
08 Mar 2012
Mike Macnair reviews: Richard B Day and Daniel Gaido (editors and translators) Discovering imperialism: social democracy to World War I Brill 2012, Historical Materialism book series, Vol 33, pp951,
Orwellian experience
11 Oct 2007
Today British politicians shed crocodile tears over the repression of the Burmese regime, but the terror of Than Shwe cannot equal the brutality and arrogance endured by the Burmese people under British colonial rule from 1886 to 1948. Emily Branson comments
My enemy's enemy
05 Apr 2007
While the establishment celebrates the 25th anniversary of the British victory in the Falklands war, Jim Moody looks back at the role of the left
Creation of Armageddon
04 Aug 2005
It has been 60 years since anti-communism devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Eddie Ford remembers
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