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
Rhetoric and double talk
26 Oct 2023
How will the Islamic Republic react to Gaza? Yassamine Mather explains why the masses are for the moment largely passive and how that could easily change
Joe Biden’s two-front war
26 Oct 2023
Economically more and more debt, diplomatically more and more enemies, militarily more and more wars. Daniel Lazare sees imperial overload
Unprecedented numbers for Palestine
26 Oct 2023
Ryan Frost gives his impressions of the demonstrations and why it is vital to go beyond the essentially circular politics of protest
Expect the worst
26 Oct 2023
October 7 was a disaster for the Palestinian people because it has created the conditions for yet another round of ethnic cleansing. There is also the danger, argues Moshé Machover, of a wider regional conflagration
Genocide in Gaza
26 Oct 2023
Electricity cut off, no petrol, an absence of drinkable water, together with grotesquely reduced healthcare, all point in one direction, warns Ian Spencer
Week in the hall of mirrors
19 Oct 2023
Reporting of Israel’s assault on Gaza provides an object lesson in how the bourgeois media works, argues Paul Demarty
What you need to know about Hamas
19 Oct 2023
Eddie Ford looks at the history and politics of what is a deeply reactionary organisation and how we could win the battle of ideas
Oppression breeds resistance
12 Oct 2023
A revolt of the hopeless by the hopeless for the hopeless. Moshé Machover explores the background to the predictable Hamas attack on Israel and the likely consequences
Opening up yet another front
28 Sep 2023
Saudi Arabia and the US are looking to repair their strained relationship with a strategic deal which could easily lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, says Daniel Lazare
Expect more hot air
21 Sep 2023
Claims of defying the government’s latest anti-trade union laws and at the same time supporting its war aims in Ukraine are in flat contradiction, writes Eddie Ford
Celebrating a mass murderer
10 Aug 2023
Christopher Nolan (screenplay/director) Oppenheimer Universal Pictures, general release
Defending neutrality
03 Aug 2023
What are so-called socialists doing upholding the foreign policy of their ‘own’ bourgeois state? Anne McShane upholds the principles of international socialism
MEK’s strange journey
06 Jul 2023
Nowadays they are the darlings of the neocon right, but most consider them a loony cult. Yassamine Mather traces the evolution of the ‘holy war’ fighters
Both sides cracking
29 Jun 2023
Russia is not the only major power that is feeling the strain, argues Daniel Lazare . The US is too
An unofficial deal?
22 Jun 2023
Iran and the United States seem to be talking about the nuclear issues again. Yassamine Mather reports on the latest round of diplomatic negotiations and manoeuvres