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
WWI: How did it all happen?
09 Oct 2014
Douglas Newton The darkest days: the truth behind Britain’s rush to war, 1914 Verso, 2014, pp386, £20
The IS conundrum
09 Oct 2014
The siege of Kobanê raises more questions than it answers, writes Yassamine Mather
Tied to the national state
02 Oct 2014
Support for Germany’s 1914-18 war effort did not just come from the right. As shown by Konrad Haenisch’s letter, there was a pro-war left that banked on a German victory in order to bring about socialist revolution
Going soft on the intervention
02 Oct 2014
Fear and hatred of Islamic State has caused some members of the Fourth International to lose their bearings, writes Peter Manson
Parvus: for German victory
11 Sep 2014
New translations shed light on the thinking of socialists who ended up supporting 'their' side in WWI. Mike Macnair introduces a second Parvus article
Ukraine: No siding with nationalists
11 Sep 2014
Eddie Ford argues that working class political independence cannot be built by backing the pawns of imperialism
The price of nationalism
04 Sep 2014
Mike Macnair reviews the cynical geopolitical manoeuvres of the rival power blocs
The origins, politics and economics of the Islamic State
04 Sep 2014
As imperialism once again changes its allies, the left needs to stick to its principles, says Yassamine Mather
Dynamic towards full-scale confrontation
14 Aug 2014
Kiev’s besieging of cities in eastern Ukraine has ominous parallels, says Eddie Ford
Parvus’s ‘Fourth of August’
14 Aug 2014
Sections of the left also adopted a German-defencist position during 1914-18
Imperialism: Judge it by results
07 Aug 2014
Despite the cover provided by various social-imperialists, British and French intervention has produced hell on earth, argues Eddie Ford
Cold facts and conspiracy theories
24 Jul 2014
Yassamine Mather examines the most likely explanation for the tragedy in eastern Ukraine
AWL: Apologists without logic
03 Jul 2014
Arthur Bough examines the AWL’s failure to oppose imperialist intervention
Kollontai: Leaving behind Menshevik pacifism
03 Jul 2014
She may have been best known for her work on the women question, writes Anne McShane, but Alexandra Kollontai was at the heart of the revolutionary fight against the imperialist war
Throwing babies out with the bathwater
17 Apr 2014
Are those who refer to the USSR as state-capitalist just ‘taking moral distance’ from Stalinism? Ian Donovan responds to Mike Macnair