The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have conclusively demonstrated a single, simple proposition, writes James Turley: imperialism has no progressive role to play Following months of foot-dragging and not a little strong-arming from his paymasters abroad, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has finally been induced to call a second round of elections after August’s vote. The official ...
SWP actually aids the imperialists, writes Ben Lewis Around 200 people crammed into the School of Oriental and African Studies on April 27 for a Campaign Iran public meeting entitled 'Obama and Iran'. Doubtless the high turnout was partly due to the fact that - alongside the CI, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran ...
Obama's release of the infamous 'torture memos' begs more questions than it answers, writes James Turley Upon entering office in January, US president Barack Obama judged it a priority to cement the goodwill offered him by his broad liberal support base. To rapturous applause from allcomers, he announced the closure of the torture camp in Guantanamo ...
Afghanistan is not the only campaign to be escalated under Obama, writes Ted North Barack Obama conveniently found god at the time he entered politics. Similarly, as he has risen in politics, his attitude to drugs has become ever more reactionary and opportunist. He was lucky the police did not kick down the door when as ...
Mahsa, a young Iranian student living in Europe, explains how sanctions affect her and other students "Section 13 of terms of services : PROHIBITED PERSONS (COUNTRIES, ENTITIES, AND INDIVIDUALS) 13.1.B Each individual which is a National or Citizen of a Sanctioned Country is hereby prohibited from registering or signing up with, subscribing to, or using any service of ...
Barack Obama invokes the traditions of the first and second American revolutions and the 1960s civil rights movement. As Ted North shows, this has created huge popular expectations One would have had to be hiding deep in the Amazon to have avoided the news that Barack Obama is now the 44th president of the United States ...
Commander in chief As George Bush hands over the reins of power, James Turley looks at what to expect from the new man Saturday January 10 was quite a day for anti-imperialists. Around the country, many thousands protested against the obscene Israeli assault on the Gaza strip - the London demonstration saw over 100,000 by the most ...
Ted North watches a new US administration takes shape The widespread rejoicing at the election of Barrack Obama, including by some on the left, can now be put into context as his incoming administration takes shape. Soon to be key figures are emerging from the competing mass of careerists, lobbyists, and various other undesirable kinds of ...
Video from a Hands Off the People of Iran public meeting at Kings College London. Nick Rogers (CPGB) and Torab Saleth (Workers Left Unity Iran) discuss the implications of Barack Obama's election for Iran and the Middle East.
How deep is official anti-racism? James Turley examines the question There can be few constituencies in America which have received the results of the November 4 presidential election as favourably as the nation’s black voters. Always a reliably Democrat demographic, 96% of African-Americans cast their ballot for Obama, with only 3% voting for McCain. The most obvious ...
James Turley sees the illusions of millions reflected in the left A couple of years ago, I spent an overly large part of my life in endless polemics with various rank-and-file leftists on internet forums, mostly of American extraction. I was particularly harsh on the US International Socialist Organization, formerly the franchise of the British Socialist Workers ...
Imperialist threats against Iran have been stepped up once again, writes Communist Students member James Turley: Last July, during a Youtube debate, Barack Obama (now de facto official Democrat presidential candidate) promised he would talk to the leaders of what are perceived as anti-American states - Venezuela, Cuba and Iran among them. This rather mild pledge, in ...