The anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks coincides with a resurgence in 'liberal interventionism'. James Turley evaluates the bloody harvest of both (first published here) On September 11 2001, a motley crew of Islamist militants hijacked four planes in US airspace. Hours later, the tallest buildings in the country had been demolished, and thousands of ...
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley. First published in the Weekly Worker. In recent years, there have been no end of occasions for military strategists to wonder what, exactly, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is actually for. It used to be pretty obvious: with the Soviet ...
Communists stand against secrecy laws which allow states to go about their dirty business in private. To show how little has changed in this regard, read below Trotsky's justification for the publication of state documents from the Tsarist and Coalition governments, when the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia. STATEMENT BY TROTSKY ON THE PUBLICATION OF ...
James Turley looks at Tony Blair’s performance before the Chilcot enquiry and the futile search for a smoking gun. Britain’s alliance with the United States is the real culprit January 29 saw, to much media fanfare, former prime minister Tony Blair face the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Britain’s part in it. ...
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 ...
James Turley examines the unravelling Stanford fraud affair When he first entered British consciousness in any serious way, Allen Stanford was hard to miss. Here was a Texan billionaire, ostentatiously arriving in a monogrammed helicopter to discuss - of all things for a Texan billionaire - a sponsorship deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board ...
social-imperialists of the AWL take note... May Day 2008 Statement from the Iraqi Labour Movement To the Workers and All Peace Loving People of the World On this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and occupation to increase support for our struggle ...