Imperialism

• Conflict and war in Syria
  • 02 June 2015
  • Judith Orr spoke to Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the resistance, the regime, the West and rise of Isis after more than four years of conflict in the country

• Imperial boundaries are being redefined in South East Asia
  • 12 May 2015
  • China’s ability to exert its influence in neighbouring countries shows the limitations of US imperialism, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

• Saudi troops seen in Aden
  • 05 May 2015
  • Around 100 Saudi-led ground troops have arrived in the Yemeni port of Aden. 

• The roots of Al Shabaab
  • 07 April 2015
  • The killing of 148 students at Kenya’s Garissa University College by Somali Islamist insurgents Al Shabaab marks the latest episode of bloodletting in a cycle of violence into which the region has been locked for some time.

• Middle Eastern states manoevure in regional power play
  • 07 April 2015
  • The danger for Western imperialism is that the mess—and with it the Middle East—escapes anyone’s control, writes Alex Callinicos

• West backs Saudi Arabia in launching attacks on Yemen
  • 31 March 2015
  • The attacks on Yemen highlight the problems US imperialism faces as it tries to reassert its control over the region, writes Ken Olende

• Activists debate how best to win liberation in Palestine
  • 31 March 2015
  • Some 70 people attended a public meeting on Palestine on Wednesday of last week, organised by Camden Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

• International round-up
  • 17 March 2015
  • US president Barack Obama rushed to condemn the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, last week.

• Isis - the real problem is Western imperialism
  • 03 March 2015
  • Muslims face a new racist crackdown after the identity of “Jihadi John” was revealed.

• State terror and West’s wars helped create an Isis fighter
  • 03 March 2015
  • The revelation that the Isis executioner known in the Western media as “Jihadi John” was Londoner Mohammed Emwazi has unleashed a new flood of Islamophobia.