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
No illusions in Histadrut
12 Sep 2024
There is no possibility of a united Jewish-Arab working class politics at this historic juncture. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is using every and any excuse to keep the war in Gaza going, writes Yassamine Mather
Revenge on the internet
05 Sep 2024
Encryption can be broken with a $5 wrench. The legal actions against Telegram and X show the fragility of free expression in the face of state power, argues Paul Demarty
Don’t bank on ayatollahs
05 Sep 2024
There are those, including on the ‘left’, who credit the Islamic Republic with being a bulwark of ‘anti‑imperialism’ and potentially the nemesis of Israel and US hegemony, writes Yassamine Mather
Ancient myths as today’s weapons
05 Sep 2024
Prime ministers from David Ben Gurion to Benjamin Netanyahu have quoted biblical stories of a promised land, conquest and imperial glory. Jack Conrad shows that, while this owes little or nothing to actual history, it does serve as standard Zionist ideological cover for colonisation, ethnic cleansing and genocide
By bomb, bullet, hunger and disease
05 Sep 2024
Israel is trying to drive the Palestinian population to misery, despair and surrender with the overriding aim of ethnic cleansing and, failing that, genocide, writes Ian Spencer
Fascism threatens ‘democracy’
29 Aug 2024
If Israel is not yet a fascist state, it is teetering on the brink, says Steve Freeman of the Republican Labour Education Forum. The comrade restates his case for a federal republic
Notes on the war
22 Aug 2024
Ukraine’s surprise attack on the Kursk oblast is a daring move, a military gamble, says Jack Conrad. It certainly exposes the one-dimensional thinking of Russia’s high command
Trying to provoke a wider conflict
01 Aug 2024
Assassinating a Hezbollah, then a Hamas leader, is yet another dangerous escalation. Meanwhile, notes Yassamine Mather, general Sir Roly Walker talks about an ‘axis of upheaval’ and being three years from war
Law of the land
25 Jul 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu took to X to denounce the ICJ’s advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel still holding Palestinian territory captured in 1967. Biblical myth supposedly trumps international law. But, as Mike Macnair says, the opinion has some considerable legal significance. That is why the mass media in Britain has been so quiet
Searching for solutions
04 Jul 2024
One-state, two-state, federal one-state ‘solutions’ - all constitute a danger when it comes to navigating the way out of the hell that imperialism and Zionist settler-colonialism has created. Jack Conrad presents the communist alternative to economistic Zionism, PLO capitulation and the dead-end of Hamas tailism
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