What’s War For?

There’s an issue that was not asked about in the election debates or by the Canadian media circuit. That question is the Canadian military, and the shocking increases in military spending. The Trudeau government is drastically increasing military spending with virtually no pushback from a country that prides itself on its “peaceful” reputation. Trudeau agreed […]

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Afghanistan: An Ignominious End

Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). US Imperialism Withdraws US imperialism’s 20-year war in Afghanistan has come to an ignominious end with the final withdrawal of its 2,500 remaining troops this month. The withdrawal comes two months before Biden’s deadline of 11 September – the 20th anniversary of Al-Qaeda’s criminal […]

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COVID-19, War and Economics

The metaphors of war have been in abundance since the onset of COVID-19. In Britain, the Queen, in a speech, evoked the WW2 song, “We’ll Meet Again.” The Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, also invoked WW2 when he used Winston Churchill’s words to talk about Italy’s “darkest hour.” Donald Trump has described himself as a […]

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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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