Imperialism & War > War and peace
Our duty to Iran's working class
15 Mar 2012
Speaking at a CPGB meeting in Manchester in support of Hands Off the People of Iran, Yassamine Mather makes the call for urgent and principled solidarity
Fissures and fusions
27 Jun 2024
Mainstream parties feign outrage over Nigel Farage’s Trumpite comments about the west provoking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - even though he is essentially correct, writes Eddie Ford
Another Israel is possible
20 Jun 2024
What kind of solution is workable, is acceptable? Steve Freeman refuses to discount Hebrew workers as an agency for change. They can be won, he argues, to give up their national privileges in return for legal equality in a democratic, federal Israel-Palestine
Not a zero-sum game
30 May 2024
Capitalist solutions are no solution. Moshé Machover argues that only a regional socialist ferment can win Jewish-Israeli workers away from Zionism and the politics of national privilege
Playing word games
30 May 2024
‘It’s only genocide when we say so’ - Daniel Lazare contrasts US grandstanding over Serbia and Xinjiang with its complicity in Israel’s war crimes in Gaza
They are all Palestinians
23 May 2024
We should invest our hopes in national uprisings, not working class unity and socialism. Tony Greenstein replies to Moshé Machover
Toxic red-brown rhetoric
16 May 2024
Mass migration is causing political instability across the whole world. Far-right support grows in leaps and bounds and the tailist left eagerly follows. But, asks Daniel Lazare, why are huge numbers of people moving in the first place?
Continuing the war of lies
16 May 2024
Truth is notoriously the first casualty of war. But the onslaught on Gaza requires Israel and its supporters in the main parties, the trade unions and the capitalist media to balance contradictory narratives. We need our own mass media, says Mike Macnair
Encamping against genocide
16 May 2024
Yassamine Mather reports from the city of dreaming spires and student protest
Raising no questions
02 May 2024
Mike Belbin reviews Alex Garland (writer and director) Civil war general release
One-state, two-state illusions
02 May 2024
Winning the Hebrew working class in Israel is vital; so is wider regional change. Towards that end we need a minimum programme of demands, insists Moshé Machover
Distracting from genocide
02 May 2024
In the midst of Israel’s war on Gaza the ‘official communist’ CPB has launched a series of seminars on anti-Semitism. The problem is that the narrative comes directly from Zionist sources. Tony Greenstein investigates
Openly Jewish opposition
02 May 2024
Around the world people are demonstrating against Israel’s war on Gaza. At the same time, Zionist provocateurs and the rightwing media step up their campaign to brand the whole solidarity movement anti-Semitic and give the state the excuse it needs to clamp down. Ian Spencer reports
My Zionist general secretary
25 Apr 2024
Sharon Graham attacks Unite’s own staff and declares her support for Nato and western imperialism, writes Tony Greenstein. So when are the SWP, SPEW and Counterfire going to stop supporting her?
In the end of times
25 Apr 2024
Militarily Israel and Iran are in different leagues. However, says Yassamine Mather, when it comes to popular opinion in the Middle East, Israel is completely isolated - apart, that is, from the ruling circles doing the bidding of the United States
Columbia, Michigan, Yale
25 Apr 2024
Daniel Lazare reports on the explosion of pro-Palestine campus protests sweeping America and how the authorities are once again resorting to the anti-Semitism big lie