Imperialism & War > United States
Nato paralysis and US decline
17 Jun 2011
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley
Talks, bluff and oil
26 Mar 2026
Doubtless negotiations are happening, but certainly not directly. Those negotiations might be about quickly ending the war, or about bringing down the price of oil and reassuring markets. Yassamine Mather explains what is probably going on
Peering through the fog of war
19 Mar 2026
One leader after another is being assassinated. Apart from that, Trump’s war aims remain contradictory and unclear. The regime is certainly not going to spontaneously collapse, argues Yassamine Mather
Satellite-guided war of terror
12 Mar 2026
Not so long ago Trump was saying that there would be a popular welcome for US intervention. A big lie: the working class has always opposed regime change from above. Yassamine Mather assesses the battle for hearts and minds
Defeat US-Israeli aggression, defend the peoples of Iran
05 Mar 2026
Numerous bogus excuses have been concocted for an extraordinarily dangerous war. We reject them all. This is a nakedly imperialist war by America designed to weaken China and ensure the regional hegemony of Zionist Israel. Yassamine Mather calls for revolutionary defencism
A strange endgame
26 Feb 2026
Did Chávez and Maduro preside over a brave ‘socialist’ experiment? No, argues Michael Roberts - it was the absence of socialist policies, not least to end the sabotage of the economy, that brought the country to its knees
Marxist or liberal foreign policy?
19 Feb 2026
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a splash at the Munich security conference with a ‘left’ defence of US power, writes Paul Demarty. Can the Democratic Socialists of America hold its elects to account?
The dog and the tail
19 Feb 2026
Many, including on the left, believe that America’s support for Israel damages its national interests, that the explanation for the irrational behaviour lies with the sinister influence of the pro-Israel lobby, even wealthy Jews. Moshé Machover disagrees. American support for Israel is not irrational: it serves its national interests
Notes on the war
19 Feb 2026
Four years since the launch of the ‘special military operation’, Russia is predictably bogged down in a war of attrition. Exactly what the US wanted, says Jack Conrad. But now we have Trump, the trifecta and the shredding of the post-World War II order
Et tu, Bezos?
12 Feb 2026
The Amazon oligarch’s attacks on his own Washington Post amounts to a betrayal of the vocation of journalism. More of the same should be expected, reckons Paul Demarty
Reject all dead ends
15 Jan 2026
We support the mass protests against the dictatorial regime, writes Yassamine Mather. However, we must also intransigently oppose Trump’s threat of US intervention and any kind of return of the monarchy
Twilight of the Beeb
20 Nov 2025
The current crisis of the BBC is the outcome of long-term transformation of the wider British establishment, and its total subordination to the USA, argues Paul Demarty
Deal, doubts and power dynamics
16 Oct 2025
Infamous words come to mind: the Gaza deal is full of ‘known unknowns’ and even more ‘unknown unknowns’. Yassamine Mather looks behind the photo-ops, handshakes and bonhomie at Sharm El-Sheikh
McCarthyite secrets and lies
02 Oct 2025
Gaby Rubin reviews Julia Bracher (director), The Rosenbergs: atomic spies, PBS America
Death of a sycophant
18 Sep 2025
Charlie Kirk’s assassination is another glimpse into a particularly American pathology. Paul Demarty expects nothing good to come of it
Carnival of the oppressed
26 Jun 2025
Midsummer day’s 350,000-strong Palestine demonstration in London was a defiant, disciplined protest against genocide, war and an increasingly repressive British state, writes Ian Spencer