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
From sanctions to slump?
03 Mar 2022
Michael Roberts looks at the dreadful consequences of the economic war being waged against Russia
Our sort of refugees?
03 Mar 2022
The Ukraine crisis sharply highlights the communist demand for open borders, writes Eddie Ford
A lesson in courage
03 Mar 2022
Anti-war protests in Russia give a glimmer of hope in a perilous situation, argues Paul Demarty
Blindness to empire
24 Feb 2022
As Russia invades Ukraine Britain’s social-imperialists rally to side of Nato. But for socialists the main enemy is at home, argues Paul Demarty
Going over to Washington
24 Feb 2022
James Harvey looks at how former leftwinger, Paul Mason, has made his peace with the US and Nato, and become a full-blown social-imperialist
Main enemy is at home
17 Feb 2022
When it comes to Ukraine, writes Eddie Ford, what matters is not territorial integrity, but the danger of generalised war in Europe
Facts on the ground
10 Feb 2022
Eddie Ford argues that supporting Ukrainian self-determination, without taking into account Nato expansionism and the rights of the Russian minority, effectively means backing US imperialist interests
Remembering and forgetting
03 Feb 2022
James Harvey surveys the Bloody Sunday commemorations, speeches, articles and the left’s none too glorious record
Sheer unadulterated murder
27 Jan 2022
Kevin Bean looks back to the events of Bloody Sunday and blames the killings not merely on individual members of the paratroop regiment but those sitting round the cabinet table in Downing Street
On the brink of war?
27 Jan 2022
The US drive to subordinate Russia, not Putin’s imperial ambitions, are the main explanation for any further conflict, argues Paul Demarty
Rise of the killer machines
13 Jan 2022
It is no longer dystopian sc-fi. Yassamine Mather looks at the race to develop and deploy autonomous lethal weapons
Creating a carnival of reaction
06 Jan 2022
James Harvey looks at how and why the island of Ireland was partitioned one hundred years ago
From hell to even worse
25 Nov 2021
The so-called migrant crisis results from the imperialist system itself, argues Eddie Ford
Cold war hots up
07 Oct 2021
As the US and Britain set about arming Australia with nuclear-powered subs and Indian troops dig in at high altitude, Chinese warplanes prod and probe Taiwan’s air defences. Eddie Ford warns that a shooting war is far from impossible
Rightwing hopes dashed
16 Sep 2021
After the scuttle from Afghanistan, reality is finally sinking in for the royalist, cultist and paid-for ‘regime change’ advocates, writes Yassamine Mather