Capitalism kills: Imperialism, Capitalism and the Destruction of Humanity and Nature
A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.
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Tag: Imperialism
Is this the long-overdue Iraqi Spring?
Iraq is once again the scene of massive protests. In the capital and in southern cities...
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For a Socialist United States of Europe
Meeting in Lisbon in March 2000, the leaders of the European Union, on the initiative of its dominant powers, Germany and France, pledged to “make Europe, by 2010, the most competitive and the most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world”. Two decades later, the European Union has instead become the “weakest link” in the imperialist world order.
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Global capitalism at a turning point
Our perspectives on the current global situation, League for the Fifth International Congress in Berlin, June 2019
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Hong Kong: “Occupy 2.0” forces government retreat, for now
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.
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I is for Imperialism
Imperialism poses the question: socialism or barbarism?
Read More W is for War
Unlike pacifists – who reject all wars – socialists oppose some wars, support others and will be prepared to wage war against the capitalist enemy.
Read MoreNato summit lays plans for new cold war
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 opening of a pre-war...
Read MoreNo to war in Syria and Iraq
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 Islamic State. Pentagon...
Read MoreImperial rivals and the New World Disorder
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 threats...
Read MoreWhy communists oppose the French military intervention in Central African Republic
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 by decades of...
Read MoreNo to imperialist intervention – yes to the Syrian people’s revolution
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 Syrian capital...
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