Israel

Shir Hever — Since its founding, Israel’s market for weapons has developed in tandem with its war objectives.

Gilbert Achcar — Western governments’ support for the Zionist genocidal war in Gaza has been part of a gradual banalization of the far right by the “centrists”.

Behnam Amini — A principled anti-imperialism must centre on working-class political interests, as well as the interests of oppressed and minoritized social groups.

Marc Botenga on how Europe’s inaction on Gaza amounts to legal and moral complicity.

Eric Toussaint analyses the practical policies of the BRICS countries and the institutions they have established towards Israel and its genocide in Gaza.

Samirah Jarrar outlines the need to move beyond a humanitarian framework of Palestinian health to envision a politics of care rooted in justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.

Like other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran’s troubled relations with the US and Israel — and with Iranian Kurds — have their roots in imperialism, writes Sarah Glynn.

Nasrin Parvaz discusses the fallout of the recent US-Israeli war on Iran and the Islamic regime’s response.

Araz Bağban — In their desire to push back imperialism, some leftists ignore everything else, including the right of 90 million Iranians to determine their own destiny.

Gilbert Achcar — US imperialism is far from dead. Instead, what we have is a mutation of US imperialism, which began not with Trump, but with Biden and the war in Gaza.

Gilbert Achcar — Countries recognizing a hypothetical “State of Palestine” is symbolically positive. But under present conditions, it can't be more than a renewed version of the vast prison the Zionist state confines Palestinian people in.

Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.