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
Online Communist Forum, Sunday July 13 5pm
10 Jul 2025
Defend right to protest
10 Jul 2025
Proscribing Palestine Action marks yet another attempt to silence those raising the alarm over the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Those MPs voting against an increasingly authoritarian government are to be congratulated, argues Ian Spencer
Looking back at the 12-day war
03 Jul 2025
People rallied in defence of the country, not the regime. They complain about the lack of preparation, the incompetence and the shortages. Meanwhile, says Yassamine Mather, the foreign media remains clueless
Nowhere else to go
26 Jun 2025
Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran was a predictable betrayal of his pitch to voters. But, asks Paul Demarty, who else are they to vote for? Especially when it comes to elections, memories are short
Besieged, battered and badly led
26 Jun 2025
Even before the bombing, Iran was an economic wreck. Years of sanctions and endemic corruption have produced poverty for millions. Michael Roberts describes a failed state
War, genocide and ceasefire
26 Jun 2025
Iranian left - within the country and without - must facilitate, encourage and take full advantage of any loosening of the ayatollahs' grip, through an immediate programme designed to defend the lives and interests of the broad mass of the population. A statement of the CPGB Provisional Central Committee
Order of the day
26 Jun 2025
There is much common ground on the revolutionary left in Turkey when it comes to Israel’s attack on Iran. However, Esen Uslu shows that there are distinguishing fault lines too
Carnival of the oppressed
26 Jun 2025
Midsummer day’s 350,000-strong Palestine demonstration in London was a defiant, disciplined protest against genocide, war and an increasingly repressive British state, writes Ian Spencer
Build working class resistance
19 Jun 2025
Arms shipments to and from Israel are being blocked in many countries - an example that trade unions in Britain can be won to follow. There is no time to lose, says Ian Spencer
Zionism’s dual war aims
19 Jun 2025
Netanyahu has been wanting to attack Iran for years. Now that the war with Iran has begun, he can finish the job in Gaza and the West Bank, warns Moshé Machover
Peering into the darkness
19 Jun 2025
Yassamine Mather questions the western nuclear bomb narrative, discounts the chances of managed regime change and insists that Israel’s war is not only against the regime. Millions of ordinary Iranians are in danger and must be defended
Devouring the prey and drinking the blood of the slain
19 Jun 2025
Netanyahu is bent on death, destruction and gore. Donald Trump gave the green light - that much is obvious. Now he has approved attack plans and is demanding ‘unconditional surrender’. Jack Conrad presents the communist alternative to capitalist barbarism and war
Pro-Palestine symbolism
12 Jun 2025
Rival demonstrations brought large numbers on to the streets of Cork. Some want to drape themselves in the Irish tricolour, others raise the red flag of internationalism. Anne McShane reports
Food used as bait
05 Jun 2025
Israel is starving the Gazan population to ready them for mass expulsion, warns Eddie Ford. After that it will be the West Bank and then the Arab-Palestinian population in ‘Israel proper’
Kurdish entanglements
29 May 2025
Laying down arms and dissolving the PKK has been hailed by some optimists as a ‘victory’. Yassamine Mather strongly disagrees and instead sees the defeat of the Kurdish people both in Turkey and Syria