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
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
Trump greenlights ethnic cleansing
13 Mar 2025
As Zionists triumphantly talk of Palestine being on the ‘threshold of the gates of hell’ and ‘absolute victory’, Jack Conrad presents the communist strategy for winning the Israeli-Jewish working class
Theatre of cruelty
06 Mar 2025
Zelensky’s humiliation in the Oval Office was a cynical setup. But for that we should be grateful, says Eddie Ford, as it lifted the curtain on what normally happens behind closed doors
Organise to stop genocide
13 Feb 2025
Take Trump’s plans seriously, says Yassamine Mather. Not the ‘riviera’ stuff, but the clearing out of Palestinians from Gaza. That explains why there has been a welcome across the Zionist spectrum
Terror of colonialism
06 Feb 2025
George Evans reviews Caroline Elkins Legacy of violence: a history of the British empire Vintage 2022, pp872, £16.99
After the ceasefire
23 Jan 2025
Our solution can only be feasible if it is regional and socialist. Nothing else works strategically. Moshé Machover looks at the prospects following the ceasefire deal and in light of the new Trump administration
Questions of war and peace
23 Jan 2025
Once again it has become common to talk about genocide and the danger of nuclear war. How should we respond? Paul Cooper reports on last weekend’s Winter Communist University
Turmoil and divisions
16 Jan 2025
Far from HTS bringing stability, things continue to fragment. Yassamine Mather looks at the continued hold of rebel groups and the frustrations of neighbouring Arab states
Rise of lifeboat imperialism
16 Jan 2025
What’s the big deal about Greenland? Paul Demarty examines Donald Trump’s promised new wave of American continental colonial expansion
Redrawing the map
09 Jan 2025
Putting faith in the ‘axis of resistance’ and Netanyahu’s legal troubles was always woefully misplaced. The Zionist state is backed to the hilt by the global hegemon. Moshé Machover spoke to the January 5 CPGB members’ aggregate