The Second World War

Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Review of The Second World War by Anthony Beevor, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2012 Seventy five years ago, the European continent and large areas of Asia and Africa were on fire in the second world war, with inhuman suffering of the worst kind caused by […]

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Iran: Trump brings region closer to war

Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). The headline and editorial in the Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper “Al-Akhbar” on Friday read: “The martyrdom of Soleimani: It is war!” This is just one of the first angry reactions to the overnight US drone attack on the convoy leaving Baghdad International airport that killed […]

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Rojava: No to the Turkish Invasion!

Claus Ludwig is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany).  A new stage of the war in Syria is now beginning after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered Turkish troops to attack and occupy the Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria. The first wave of troops accompanied by widespread airstrikes has moved across […]

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World relations: Open splits at G7 jamboree

Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. G7 failure, penalty tariffs reflect capitalist world disorder Trump’s claims of success after his Singapore meeting with Kim Jong-un were in complete contrast to the downbeat mood amongst most of the other leaders who had been with him at the preceding G7 summit […]

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