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
A lesson in courage
03 Mar 2022
Anti-war protests in Russia give a glimmer of hope in a perilous situation, argues Paul Demarty
Putting two and two together
24 Feb 2022
A new nuclear deal is now probably on the cards, says Yassamine Mather. But Iran’s conservatives, US Republicans and the Israeli government are fuming
Blindness to empire
24 Feb 2022
As Russia invades Ukraine Britain’s social-imperialists rally to side of Nato. But for socialists the main enemy is at home, argues Paul Demarty
Going over to Washington
24 Feb 2022
James Harvey looks at how former leftwinger, Paul Mason, has made his peace with the US and Nato, and become a full-blown social-imperialist
Get out of Zionist ghetto
24 Feb 2022
Communists say national liberation is a task of the working class. Tony Greenstein takes issue with the left Zionism of Daniel Lazare
Main enemy is at home
17 Feb 2022
When it comes to Ukraine, writes Eddie Ford, what matters is not territorial integrity, but the danger of generalised war in Europe
BDS: for or against?
17 Feb 2022
Israeli settler-colonialism and the appropriate solidarity movement with the Palestinians were debated at the February 13 Online Communist Forum. Daniel Lazare argued that the BDS campaign is a cross-class popular front which therefore should be shunned. Mike Macnair stressed the US alliance with Israel, attempts to outlaw BDS and the ongoing witch-hunt against anti-Zionists in the Labour Party
Facts on the ground
10 Feb 2022
Eddie Ford argues that supporting Ukrainian self-determination, without taking into account Nato expansionism and the rights of the Russian minority, effectively means backing US imperialist interests
Behind Israeli apartheid
10 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it
In the final round
03 Feb 2022
Neither Russia nor China can afford to come to the rescue. Yassamine Mather shows that for Iran a great deal hangs on the results of the Vienna negotiations
Fuelling the cauldron
03 Feb 2022
Esen Uslu reports on the short-termist cuts in interest rates and the resulting inflation and political turmoil
Dangling in mid-air
03 Feb 2022
Biden’s whole social programme has fallen victim to the undemocratic Senate. Daniel Lazare warns that there is a distinct danger of a minority regime
Plucky little Kiev
03 Feb 2022
Self-determination is not an absolute principle. We in the western left must train our main fire on our own warmongers, argues Paul Demarty
Remembering and forgetting
03 Feb 2022
James Harvey surveys the Bloody Sunday commemorations, speeches, articles and the left’s none too glorious record
From right to right
27 Jan 2022
Yassamine Mather investigates some of the well-paid ‘independent’ experts and journalists who constantly appear in the western media