Imperialism – Red Flag

Global capitalism at a turning point

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Our perspectives on the current global situation, League for the Fifth International Congress in Berlin, June 2019

Hong Kong: “Occupy 2.0” forces government retreat, for now

Friday, June 14, 2019

On Sunday, 1 million people marched in protest against a proposed new law which will allow Beijing to extradite anyone from the territory of Hong Kong.

I is for Imperialism

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Imperialism poses the question: socialism or barbarism?

W is for War

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Unlike pacifists – who reject all wars – socialists oppose some wars, support others and will be prepared to wage war against the capitalist enemy.

Nato summit lays plans for new cold war

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Editorial from Fifth International no. 15 The decision of the 2014 Nato Summit in Wales to station permanent military forces along the Russian border marks the end of the post-Cold War “phony peace” and the

No to war in Syria and Iraq

Monday, September 29, 2014

By Marcus Halaby US President Barack Obama took office in 2009 promising to end the US occupation of Iraq. Today US warplanes are bombing Iraq and Syria with the aim of “degrading and destroying” the

Imperial rivals and the New World Disorder

Monday, March 24, 2014

By Dave Stockton The tectonic plates of the world order, established after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, are shifting again, producing the political equivalents of earthquakes and tsunamis. Across the globe there are

Why communists oppose the French military intervention in Central African Republic

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

By KD Tait, 11 December 2013 The French government has sent 1,600 troops to the Central African Republic to disarm rebel militias under a United Nations plan to “restore order” to a country destabilised

No to imperialist intervention – yes to the Syrian people’s revolution

Friday, August 30, 2013

By Marcus Halaby / 30 August 2013 On 21 August, reports emerged that hundreds of people had been killed in a chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held agricultural region just outside of the

Don't attack Syria: model resolution for Left Unity Branches

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

This motion was proposed by Workers Power members and passed by Lambeth Left Unity branch on 27 August 2013. Lambeth left Unity condemns the preparations by the US Administration and the British Government for missile

Mali: French boots on the ground – fire fighters or arsonists?

Sunday, January 20, 2013

“France represents only humanitarian interests,” insists French president François Hollande. It is a solely a case of the war on terror, an attempt to stop al-Qaeda gaining another Afghanistan or Somalia – a collapsed state

Troops out of Afghanistan

Monday, October 15, 2012

Marcus Halaby reports on the endgame in Afghanistan In late August the number of American troops killed in the war in Afghanistan reached a total of 2,000. This includes those killed in Pakistan and other

Syria: Legitimacy and Division

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

As the rival imperialist powers manoeuvre to gain an advantage from the mass uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship, Marcus Halaby examines the regime’s strategy and tactics as it struggles, if not for outright victory, then

Free Marian Price

Saturday, May 12, 2012

VETERAN IRISH Republican Marian Price has been imprisoned without trial since May 2011. This harks back to the British government’s widespread use of internment in the 1970’s as a way of silencing opposition to its

KONY 2012 : right cause, wrong answer

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Dan Edwards and KD Tait from Revolution investigate the facts behind the popular Kony2012 campaign and find a sinister organisation with questionable goals

US threatens war against Iran

Monday, November 7, 2011

With the publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency report on the Iranian nuclear programme this week, it is no surprise we are seeing images of Israeli soldiers preparing for nuclear attacks. Warfare rhetoric is

Imperialist hypocrisy over Libya

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

THE IMPERIALIST powers were caught backing the ‘wrong side’ in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, notes Richard Brenner. Only when it became clear that Mubarak would fall, did they turn around and start to pose

Obama: President of war

Monday, May 30, 2011

Jamie Traska from Workers Power USA explains how Obama is starting more wars and being just as aggressive as Bush

Why socialists want troops out of Afghanistan

Friday, March 25, 2011

This October will be the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. It will probably not be celebrated anywhere in the world, least of all in Afghanistan itself. This has been the most unpopular of

British imperialism’s bloody history in the Middle East

Sunday, March 6, 2011

UK Prime Minister David Cameron flew into Cairo after Hosni Mubarak was forced out, saying he wanted to be the first Western politician there since the revolution. He was flanked by British arms dealers on