Toward decolonisation: the struggle for Palestine today – interview with Tareq Baconi
Spectre Journal interviewed Tareq Baconi, author of Hamas Contained, about 7 October, Israel’s genocide, and the state of the Palestinian resistance and its implication for the region and world.
Do workers in the Global North benefit from the exploitation of workers in the South?
Charlie Post argues that imperialism has intensified exploitation across the entire global working class
Yemen: ‘It’s not working: we’re going to keep doing it’
Jamie Allinson points out the contradictions of US and British policy towards Yemen.
Palestine 101: Asking questions of Zionism
Sherry Wolf interrogates three common claims made by supporters of the state of Israel.
Palestine 101: Israel is the watchdog of US imperialism
brian bean analyses US support for Israel and the geopolitical implications of the war on Gaza
Debate – the limitations of settler colonial theory
Australian socialist Jordan Humphreys, author of recent book ‘Indigenous Liberation & Socialism’ replies to two recent articles by Sai Englert on settler colonial theory.
Palestine 101: A century of Palestinian resistance
Shireen Akram-Boshar discusses the history of Palestinian resistance to colonialism.
Western terror in the Middle East
Wars and oppression in the Middle East and North Africa are a product of centuries of colonial and imperial domination by Western powers. Eleanor Morley explains the bloody history.
Queers for Palestine
Opposing the ‘pink-washing’ of Israel – rs21 member Colin Wilson explains the importance of a slogan increasingly seen on Palestine solidarity protests.
Why I support Palestine: an interview with Merilyn Moos
My family in Germany were killed by Nazis because they were Jews. What Israel has constructed in Gaza is a concentration camp.
Settler colonialism, Zionism and Palestinian liberation
Sai Englert on the relationship between the Zionist labour movement and the road to Palestinian liberation.
Settler colonialism and the birth of global capitalism
Sai Englert discusses the history of settler colonialism and its central role in the development of global capitalism
Video | End the siege of Gaza: building solidarity with Palestine
Anindya Bhattacharyya discusses the shifting landscape of Palestinian solidarity campaigning during the siege of Gaza.
Hope amid the horror: Palestinian resistance after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
Anindya Bhattacharyya analyses Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and its repercussions for resistance to occupation and imperialism.
Is BRICS+ an Anti-Colonial Formation Worth Cheering From the Left? Far From It.
BRICS+ is not a new Non-Aligned Movement seeking to redistribute global wealth but an alliance of aspiring hegemons.
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 2
The uncounted costs of nuclear power
‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever
Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 1
Brian Parkin explores why nuclear power remains so important for Britain’s rulers, in the first part of a two-part article.
Review | Making the Revolution Global
The history of black anticolonial radicals in Britain is central to the history of the left.
Review | The New Cold War
The new imperialist world order is characterised by increasing military tensions between the world’s major powers, but also by economic competition.
A fuel’s paradise: capitalism, energy crises and the markets
Fossil fuel companies and national governments are driving the climate catastrophe that threatens us all.
Leicester: the global spread of the Indian far right
Hindu supremacism is growing in Indian communities in Britain
Inside the Ukrainian Resistance
Interview about the Ukrainian Resistance, the state of war, the dynamics of class struggle and popular consciousness, and the tasks of the international Left in building solidarity with Ukraine.
Music of the streets, music of rebellion
The 1920s saw the emergence of new kinds of music around the world, sometimes with links to anti-colonial movements.
Review | Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Caroline Elkins’ compelling new book makes the barbarity of the British empire in the twentieth century absolutely clear.
Russia’s war and the West
Gareth Dale responds to an article by Tom Bramble exploring the reasons for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Russian imperialism under Putin
The invasion of Ukraine can be understood only with reference to the imperialist competition that dominates the world system.
How the West made Putin
Anindya Bhattacharyya charts a recent history of links between Putin and key figures in the Western ruling class.
Russia’s invasion and world imperialism
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows that we have to understand imperialism as a world system.