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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
A culture of apology
08 Feb 2024
David Miller is worth more than the whole pack of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs put together. Apologising makes you complicit, but taking a stand brings vindication, writes Eddie Ford
ABCs of Muslim Brothers
23 Nov 2023
In the first of three articles, Jack Conrad looks at the origins, evolution and current reality of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain, Egypt and internationally
Aim for deZionisation
16 Nov 2023
Israel is a work colony based on an ideology of blood and soil. Mike Macnair gets to grips with the logic and history of ethnic cleansing and expansionism
What happened to solidarity?
02 Nov 2023
Anne McShane celebrates the fellow feeling with the Palestinians and notes the drift of Sinn Féin into the mainstream pro-Israel consensus
Week in the hall of mirrors
19 Oct 2023
Reporting of Israel’s assault on Gaza provides an object lesson in how the bourgeois media works, argues Paul Demarty
Part of the western order
12 Oct 2023
Yassamine Mather is not celebrating the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize won by Narges Mohammadi, a liberal but brave human rights activist. She is being cynically used as part of the ideological preparations for a military attack on Iran
Oppression breeds resistance
12 Oct 2023
A revolt of the hopeless by the hopeless for the hopeless. Moshé Machover explores the background to the predictable Hamas attack on Israel and the likely consequences
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