Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
Latest editorial
Are we ready to make a declaration of independence from capitalism?
Whilst Corbyn fights Brexit battles at home, there's been unexpected vote of confidence for the left from the US - where 65 per cent of Democrats now view socialism positively
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
SOCIALIST ideas are enjoying something of a revival. Here too. The prospect of a Labour government — even with the party in the midst of intensely destabilising struggle with a sizeable section of its MPs and party establishment — has the ruling elites, big business and the banks intensely anxious. But in the United States socialist ideas are also challenging the official consensus.
The US party system is crafted precisely to prevent the emergence of a political vehicle that might challenge the dominant corporate power which has, in the Democratic and Republican parties, two powerful political machines.
A Soviet leader once quipped — in response to criticism that political power in the USSR was exercised in a one party state — that the United States too was a one party state but, with typical American extravagance, it had two such parties.
Similar stories
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa