Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo are members of ISA’s International Political Committee On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, high on ceremony but almost wholly lacking in concrete results. Trump described the meeting […]
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Towards a fragile deal or an escalating war? With hours left of the “ceasefire” with Iran, Trump is zigzagging between announcing that he is “very close to a fair deal” and again threatening to “knock out every power plant and bridge” in Iran. Seven weeks into this war, the Bonaparte in the White House has […]
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Iran has been at the centre of global events continuously for more than a century. Imperialist powers dominated the entire period up to the revolution in 1979, treating Iran as “a semi-colonial country, half-industrialised and half colonial”, leading Marxist Ted Grant concluded in 1979. Iran has also seen revolutions in 1906 and 1979, numerous waves […]
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In its third week, the US-Israel war on Iran is not going as Donald Trump wished, to put it mildly. What Trump envisioned as a demonstration of strength and another “easy victory” following his January operation in Venezuela, is instead going down in history as a gigantic miscalculation. Its consequences now dominate the concerns of […]
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Trump “told us the Kurds must choose a side in this battle — either with America and Israel or with Iran”, according to the Washington Post on 5 March. Almost a week into the war on Iran, the US president is increasing pressure on the Kurds to offer him ground troops, since he is very […]
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Trump sides with the Syrian regime With a military offensive that began on 5 January, the Syrian army has taken control of large parts of the long-autonomous region of Rojava, which has a largely Kurdish population. As in 2015, the city of Kobane is now threatened with invasion, and as then, a strong international solidarity […]
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Crisis sharpened by new threats of war from Trump and Netanyahu The latest protest movement in Iran, which began on 28 December, has spread to all 31 provinces of the country. Triggered by food inflation of 70%, demands are now being made that are directed squarely at the Islamist capitalist dictatorship. On Thursday 8 January, […]
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Workers’ action shows the way forward Update October1: As the Israeli regime intercepted boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, mass protests erupted in cities across Europe and Middle East. Italian trade unionists have called another general strike for Friday, October 3. Under the slogans “24 hour general strike” and “Block everything,” the […]
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The struggle against Israel’s war is a struggle against imperialism and capitalism With the attack on the Hamas headquarters in Doha, Qatar, the Israeli government further escalated its regional war. It was an unprecedented attack in a country closely allied to the US, the location of the largest US military base in the Middle East. […]
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The protest movement globally and the protests in Israel must be directed at the root of the genocidal war Over one million people in Israel participated in protests on Sunday, August 17, against the escalated genocidal war in Gaza. At the same time, the Israeli far-right government and military continue their starvation and bombing campaign […]
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