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Imperialism & War > War and peace

Our duty to Iran's working class

15 Mar 2012

Speaking at a CPGB meeting in Manchester in support of Hands Off the People of Iran, Yassamine Mather makes the call for urgent and principled solidarity

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

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

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

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

Red lines and regional gambits

22 May 2025

Trump’s visit to the Middle East garnered all manner of mega-sized business deals. However, unspoken, in the background, there were two looming issues, Gaza and the US-Iran nuclear talks. Yassamine Mather looks at the likelihood of an agreement

Death by degrees

22 May 2025

It is not just Netanyahu and his far right coalition government. Ethnic cleansing and genocide are built into the DNA of the Zionist project. And, of course, the British state is fully complicit, explains Eddie Ford

Silence of the Beeb

22 May 2025

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Despite recent token gestures, the Gazan population faces starvation. David Lammy huffs and puffs but allows the export of arms to continue. As for Donald Trump, says Ian Spencer, he is more interested in real-estate deals

Watershed moment

15 May 2025

Abdullah Öcalan’s huge moral authority predictably prevailed. Esen Uslu comments on the many questions that arise following the PKK’s historic decision to lay down arms and end its armed struggle

When Louis met Moloch

15 May 2025

Paul Demarty reviews Josh Baker (director), Louis Theroux (presenter and writer) Louis Theroux: the settlers BBC 2 2025

From Balfour to genocide

15 May 2025

Starvation, denial of aid, the current military escalation of Zionist violence into attempted genocide should be viewed in the context a century of colonial dispossession, writes Yassamine Mather

Netanyahu is rebuffed

24 Apr 2025

Israel wants Iran attacked, degraded and broken. But the latest US-Iran talks make it clear who is in charge, argues Yassamine Mather

Death of an absolute monarch

24 Apr 2025

Pope Francis liked to parade his simple life, his identification with the poor and downtrodden. But, shows Jack Conrad, he turned a blind eye to mass killing and presided over a fabulously wealthy and thoroughly compromised institution

From welfare to warfare

28 Mar 2025

We are returning to ‘military Keynesianism’, but will the ‘war dividend’ result in the end of stagnation and an economic boom? Michael Roberts doubts it

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