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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We Need Socialist Feminist Resistance It feels like society is being dragged backwards. The footprint of escalating wars seems to cover more of the world every day. A girls school in Minab, Iran was one of the first targets of Trump and Netanyahu’s deadly new war in the Middle East where an estimated 175 people […]
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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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The working class must enter the stage, against the war on Iran and for revolutionary change Within hours of Trump and Netanyahu beginning their new war of imperialist aggression against Iran, the conflict had spread throughout the region. As of 3 March, death and destruction have already been visited on a dozen countries. The situation […]
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Build and escalate working-class antiwar resistance! The Middle East is in flames once more, and again it is Trump who has lit the fire. The world’s warmonger-in-chief has unleashed a new dangerous situation. After building up the biggest armada in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US and Israeli militaries began “Operation […]
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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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