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
Arms and the duopoly
02 Sep 2021
Afghanistan was a disastrous bipartisan war supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. Daniel Lazare lambasts the idea that the solution lies in a third bourgeois party untainted by the arms industry
No longer a US problem
02 Sep 2021
Undoubtedly the region’s powers see opportunities with the Americans gone, but mostly they see dangers. Yassamine Mather looks at the prospects now that the Taliban are back in Kabul
Looking back over the ruins
15 Jul 2021
The final withdrawal of American troops must be put in the context of the April 1978 revolution and the subsequent reaction. The USA and Saudi Arabia armed, financed and promoted a counterrevolution, which included Osama bin Laden and al Qa’eda and ended in the triumph of the Taliban. This is an edited version of an article written by Jack Conrad and first published in June 2003. Its main target is Sean Matgamna, patriarch of the social-imperialist Alliance for Workers’ Liberty. Nowadays, the AWL describes the Taliban as “Islamo-fascist”; back then, though, they were “our kind of people”
Another forced scuttle
15 Jul 2021
There have been lies and lies and yet more lies. Daniel Lazare savages what has been a comprehensive failure, from the ‘light footprint’ military model to the final humiliating pull-out
Carrying the can
08 Jul 2021
The liberal establishment wants us to believe that the ‘war on terror’ was all Donald Rumsfeld’s fault. Daniel Lazare begs to disagree
Desperately clinging on
01 Jul 2021
The Putin-Biden summit illustrates one thing above all: US hypocrisy. Daniel Lazare looks at election interference and the debacle in Afghanistan
Death of an activist
24 Jun 2021
The campaign to outlaw the Kurdish opposition involves all sorts of dirty tricks. Esen Uslu looks behind the most recent killing
Reality of ethnic cleansing
13 May 2021
Tony Greenstein argues that despite its military might the Zionist state is losing the propaganda war
Stench of Zionist colonisation
13 May 2021
What is going on in Jerusalem? Why the provocations? Moshé Machover looks behind the latest flare-up of violence
Ghost dancers of loyalism
15 Apr 2021
Riots in the Six Counties confirm once again that the Good Friday agreement settled nothing, writes Derek James
Pax Americana Britannica
25 Mar 2021
The defence review shows that ‘global’ Britain is totally subservient to the US, writes Eddie Ford
Star Wars posturing
26 Nov 2020
Boris Johnson’s plan to squander billions on the armed forces in order to extend Britain’s ‘global influence’ is fully supported by Starmer’s Labour Party, notes Eddie Ford
Their fables and ours
15 May 2020
World War II is a breeding ground for comforting myths, argues Paul Demarty - for both the bourgeoisie and the left
Where is the strategy?
07 May 2020
Support for a ‘global ceasefire’ is acceptable, argues Paul Demarty, but not if it obscures the causes of war
The war is set to continue
06 Mar 2020
Trump’s agreement with the Taliban shows that the United States has comprehensively failed in achieving its stated objectives, argues Yassamine Mather.