South Africa’s fractured society is not in any shape to cope with fallouts from the attack on Iran by the US and Israel.
War requires defence against mass unemployment and price increases
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The US and Israeli war with Iran: what approach is needed for a principled socialist Left?
The Iranian regime has used its rhetoric against US imperialism and Israel to suppress progressive opposition in the countries where it has influence.
The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic
The U.S. government is not making the world any safer. It’s making the world more dangerous.
The Trump-Putin Axis and its impact on global politics
Donald Trump’s forging of a political alliance with Russia’s Vladimir Putin represents a dramatic transformation of world politics.
‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism
Under capitalism, envisioning a shift away from fossil fuels is more difficult by the day.
OP-ED: Like the Phoenix, Gaza will Rise from the Fire
The Palestinian spirit is unbreakable. Like the mythical phoenix, defiant and heroic Gaza will rise from the fire. The aerial bombardment of Gaza’s most crowded Jabalia refugee camp piles on one massacre after another. It signifies Israeli barbarism and a fascist...
75 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA, THE CATASTROPHE FOR PALESTINIANS
THE ISRAELI REGIME IS RARELY described for what it is: a settler, colonial state that practices apartheid against Palestinians. Palestinians have been saying this for decades. Human rights organisations, such as Al Haq, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and...
For a socialist, not a “color” revolution in Iran
Socialist Web Site 22 June 2009 The protests in Tehran over the weekend have served to highlight the limited social base of the political opponents of the dominant faction of the Iranian clerical regime. The opposition movement has not only failed to draw in broader...
Obama in Cairo: a new face for imperialism
5 June 2009 The speech delivered by US President Barack Obama in Cairo yesterday was riddled with contradictions. He declared his opposition to the “killing of innocent men, women, and children,” but defended the ongoing US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US...