Imperialism & War
Grounds for optimism
03 Feb 2011
Israeli socialist Moshé Machover talks to Mark Fischer about the implications of the uprising in Egypt for the whole region
Approaching train wreck
21 Oct 2021
With Donald Trump getting ready to run again in 2024, Joe Biden’s support has collapsed in opinion polls. Daniel Lazare explains why
Prince over the water
14 Oct 2021
The takeover of Newcastle United by Saudi Arabia’s MBS highlights the contradictory position of fans in modern football, says Paul Demarty
Honouring the victims
14 Oct 2021
On October 9 a group of Iranian revolutionaries, now mainly based in North America and Europe, organised an online meeting to commemorate the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Among the speakers were Yassamine Mather, Shahin Chitsaz and Mike Macnair
Across the entire spectrum
14 Oct 2021
Whistleblower Frances Haugen said what people wanted to hear. Daniel Lazare scoffs at the moral panic over Facebook and Instagram
Tudor, Whig or what?
07 Oct 2021
No ultimate source of sovereignty: Daniel Lazare takes issue with Mike Macnair on the nature of the US constitution
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
Decline and decay
30 Sep 2021
Mike Macnair shows that the post-1945 and post-1976 global ascendancy of US-style constitutionalism is at the core of the current liberal impasse
Enlightened constitutions
23 Sep 2021
Mike Macnair shows that the US constitution modernised the English constitution - no monarch, no hereditary peers, no state church - but made the interests of capital more secure against the lower orders
A political system test
23 Sep 2021
Joe Biden is attempting to reverse US imperial decline through a neo-Keynesian turn, argues Jim Creegan
One coup attempt or two?
23 Sep 2021
There was general Mark Milley too. Daniel Lazare re-examines January 6 in light of the latest revelations
Media muddle
23 Sep 2021
Yes, they are deeply reactionary, writes Yassamine Mather. But they have learnt to survive, adapt and win
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
Another ‘flight forward’?
16 Sep 2021
Daniel Lazare asks whether or not any lessons have been learnt from forty years of war and disaster
Mirror images of terror
16 Sep 2021
Al Qa’eda wanted to provoke, the US neocons wanted to be provoked. The result has been a whole series of failed states, writes Eddie Ford
Exciting, historical, tearful
09 Sep 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Summer of soul (or When the revolution could not be televised)', Ahmir Thompson (director) general release