Imperialism & War > What is imperialism?
No way back for warmongers
03 Dec 2009
Mike Macnair addressed the Hopi AGM on the continued threat of war. US imperialism has a new face, but when it comes to foreign policy it is business as usual
Marxism still the most compelling
14 Sep 2023
Decline of US dominance, the rise of China and a lot of hype. Michael Roberts reports on a recent conference of left economists
Beyond our repair
14 Sep 2023
Chattel slavery’s damage is done, argues Paul Demarty, so communists should fight for a better future, not redress for past injuries
Meanwhile the economic war
27 Jul 2023
Ending the Black Sea grain corridor has put Erdoğan’s government under intense diplomatic pressure, writes Esen Uslu
Enemies of the people
06 Jul 2023
Kevin Bean asks why delays, objections and challenges to the Illegal Migration Bill are far from unwelcome to the Tories
Notes on the war
08 Jun 2023
With Kyiv’s long-trailed military offensive now seemingly underway, Jack Conrad warns that we should still expect a prolonged, bitter war of attrition and eventually a US attempt to encircle and strangle China
From order to chaos
23 Mar 2023
Why has so much of the left collapsed into social-imperialism? Why the continued illusions in US intervention? Mike Macnair talked to Hands off the People of Iran in a meeting hosted by Yassamine Mather
Imperialist Russia?
08 Sep 2022
The Morning Star and Communist Review are locked into a debate on whether or not the Russian Federation should be characterised as an imperialist power. Mike Macnair investigates the protagonists and their arguments
Assessing Putin’s gamble
21 Apr 2022
Mike Macnair critiques the idea, common amongst social-imperialists and social-pacifists alike, that modern Russia is a full-blown imperialist power
Neither 1914 nor 1940
03 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair interrogates the bogus claims made by Paul Mason and Alex Callinicos about imperialism and the Ukraine war
Russian weapons
22 Mar 2018
There is great fury about the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal - but Paul Demarty detects crocodile tears
Extending an ‘olive branch’
25 Jan 2018
What lies behind the incursion into Syria? Esen Uslu looks behind the headlines
No to unprincipled alliances
25 Jan 2018
Iranian workers should be careful about who they associate with, argues Yassamine Mather
Not enforcing juche
14 Sep 2017
In the last analysis North Korea’s ‘rogue state’ status results from US strategic requirements, writes Mike Macnair
The war Israel planned
06 Jul 2017
Military action against Syria had been contemplated for several months prior to the Six-Day War of June 1967, writes Moshé Machover
Self-deception and apologetics
08 Jun 2017
The AWL cannot bring itself to condemn imperialist interventions in principle, writes Mike Macnair