Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland The devastation caused by US imperialism’s war on Iran has been widely documented. The independent Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency estimates that as many as 3,636 have been killed there, and in Lebanon, the death toll from the Israeli regime’s ongoing […]
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Anna Barret is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US After five weeks of all-out war on Iran and seven weeks of a very fragile ceasefire, yet another round of talks is taking place between the US and Iran. Whether the result is a deal or a new round of war (or yet more […]
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How Can Workers Fight Back? Just under a year ago, John Healey, Labour’s Defence Secretary in Britain, visited a munitions factory. There, he made a speech extolling the virtues of a dawning new era of “military Keynesianism.” Slashing overseas aid budgets and “reinforcing the British industrial base” would lead to “more jobs in every part […]
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On 19 April, Trump posted on Truth Social declaring “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY,” threatening to end the ceasefire and carry out wide-ranging attacks on Iranian infrastructure. Two days later — on the eve of the ceasefire deadline and in the type of walk-back now characteristic of Trump — he announced a one-sided ceasefire extension […]
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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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“Coming on top of the Ukraine and tariff wars, the Iran war is shaping up to be the biggest stagflationary shock the world has seen in five decades.” (Kenneth Rogoff, former Chief Economist of the IMF) Donald Trump has retreated from his April 8th deadline to flatten Iran, but the current temporary ceasefire can still […]
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Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific reality, Washington backed down. Trump announced that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. The pause in the war provides at least a temporary respite for the people […]
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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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