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
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The imperial debacle in Afghanistan: avoiding conspiracy theories
NICK WRIGHT looks at left approaches to the US's humiliation and its reverberations at Westminster
The hearse carrying Navy Corpsman Maxton Soviak leaves Edison High School stadium after his funeral in Milan, Ohio. Soviak was one of 13 US troops killed in a suicide bombing at Afghanistan's Kabul airport on August 26
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
CONFUSION ruled in the British socialist movement in 1884. The leader of the marxist Social Democratic Federation, Henry Hyndman, had antagonised much of the membership in arguing for a British military mission to rescue General Gordon then besieged by the Sudanese in Khartoum.
Accustomed to his role in asserting British imperial authority over the Sudanese people, the hapless colonial overlord was an early practitioner of the tactics that have caused countless deaths – of colonial subjects and British soldiers alike – over the generations and, in this instance, his own.
This came about when, in defiance of his instructions, which were simply to evacuate, he instead fortified the city and began to treat with the the Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad.
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