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Nato paralysis and US decline
17 Jun 2011
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley
Obamalaise hits home
28 Jan 2010
James Turley looks at the first year of the Obama presidency
Searing indictment of capitalism spoilt by nostalgia for New Deal
08 Oct 2009
Jim Creegan reviews Michael Moores (director) Capitalism: a love story 2009 (no UK release date yet)
Revolutionary traditions and realities of power
22 Jan 2009
Barack Obama invokes the traditions of the first and second American revolutions and the 1960s civil rights movement. As Ted North shows, this has created huge popular expectations
Labor left must develop platform for change
29 Nov 2007
Another member of Bush's 'coalition of the willing' has been unceremoniously dumped. Last weekend's Australian election marks an important turning point, writes Marcus Ström
Ungreen American
04 Oct 2007
Environmentalists around the world were less than impressed by president George Bush's speech at the major economies' meeting on energy, security and climate change last week. Simon Wells comments
No imperialist intervention
04 Oct 2007
George Bush and Gordon Brown have been shedding crocodile tears over Burma. But should we demand that they intervene to sort things out? Jim Moody argues that the masses themselves are the solution
More poverty, more missiles
14 Jun 2007
Ostentatious and pompous as ever, the 33rd G8 summit took place from June 6 to June 8 at the Kempinski Grand Hotel in Heiligendamm on the Baltic. Jim Moody reports
US-Iran talks
11 May 2007
After weeks of anticipation and with the expected media hype, the first official meeting between Iran's Islamic republic and the United States in nearly 30 years took place in Baghdad this week. Yassamine Mather reports
A strategy to finish the new American century
22 Feb 2007
A US in relative decline is striving to retain global hegemony, writes Nick Rogers. The latest threats against Iran emphasise once again the fragility of the current imperialist order and the urgency of communist organisation to oppose it
Soundtracks for the new American century
15 Feb 2007
Gordon Downie listened to BBC Radio's Three Composer of the week (John Adams), February 9
Black face for White House?
15 Feb 2007
'Official anti-racism' has provoked a dialogue over whether the US is ready for a black president. Martin Schreader examines the 'Obama phenomenon', which has caused such confusion among many on the left
Bush ups the ante
11 Jan 2007
Differences over Iraq have been sharply debated in Washington between 'neocons' and 'realists', writes Mike Macnair. On a micro-scale this is paralleled in Britain by a debate within the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
Death of a nationalist
04 Jan 2007
Mike Macnair looks at the death of Saddam Hussein
No choice for most
02 Nov 2006
November 7 sees the United States mid-term elections. David Walters reports from San Francisco
Hands off Lebanon, no war on Iran
03 Aug 2006
Israel's assault is part of broader US war aims, says Eddie Ford