General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Peace: the people’s priority in Iran
After the Gaza genocide and unleashing chaos in Syria, the US and Israel prepare to target Tehran next, leaving the Iranian people caught between foreign intervention and continued theocratic oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
BRUTE FORCE: An Israeli war plane at Tel Nof air base prepares for strikes on Iran
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
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The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
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As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
THE Middle East has long been a battleground in which imperial powers have played out their power games by creating, enhancing and exploiting regional tensions. However, the most recent plans of the US to “reshape” the region go back some 18 years to the speech made by then US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, in July 2006 when she stated that the US was seeking major change in the Middle East.
Under successive US presidents since then, the concept of a Greater Middle East has evolved. President Obama developed the US’s New Middle East Plan to reassert influence and bolster resource control in the region. Obama’s version of the plan resulted in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran in 2015 and a more nuanced approach to containing the perceived threat of Iran to the regional power balance.
Donald Trump took a more belligerent approach, tearing up the JCPOA in 2018, taking a clear position of supporting the objectives of Israel to be the region’s dominant military power and protector of US interests.
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