Written by Alan Woods
Thursday, 11 September 2008
After September 11, 2001 the
American people were psychologically prepared for a more aggressive foreign
policy, severe restrictions on their civil liberties, increased powers of state
repression and a further boost to military spending. But seven years later a
radically different picture presents itself. Gone is the old confidence of the
imperialists.
Written by Tom Rollings and Francesco Merli
Friday, 15 August 2008
Despite the claims of the Russian and Georgian governments, there is no progressive content on either side of the war in South Ossetia and Georgia. The present nightmare of war and chauvinist poison is the result of imperialist meddling. The conflict between a strengthened Russian regional imperialist power and US imperialism, entangled in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the backdrop of these events. The peoples of the Caucasus are just small change in the pockets of the imperialists, but it is they who pay the price of the power politics between Russia and the USA.