Mid-East

The pressure to misinterpret the deaths, as the bodies come back, as nobly purifying is a cynically orchestrated propaganda exercise intended to justify the war. Among the rituals so consoling to our Servants of the People in Westminster is the solemn roll call of the names of recently fatal casualties of...
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Our rulers tell us they are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for democracy. Not true. I n June 2009 in Afghanistan a group of heavily armed (with US weaponry) and masked Afghan thugs forced their way into the office of a Provincial Prosecutor and demanded that a detained prisoner be handed over to them. The...
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Peace is always better than war. Because wars are never fought in the interests of ordinary people. And because in wars it is always ordinary people who suffer. So, irrespective of the issues involved or the terms agreed, Socialists can only welcome the ending of any war in any part of the world. Stop...
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A Critical Look at the Left’s Flirtation with Islamic Fundamentalism -from Communicating Vessels Magazine Issue 19 “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, nor to hate them, but to understand them.” Baruch Spinoza THE WORLD HAS undoubtedly changed since the late 1980s. No one can deny that when the Berlin wall crumbled and the...
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When socialists proclaim that we live in a class dominated society we are rebuked for not taking into account the dreadful poverty of some parts of Asia, but as recent reports indicate capitalism dominates Asia just as much as it does in Europe. “Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils...
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Preparations for a US attack on Iran are well advanced. American planes probe the country’s air defences. Commandos infiltrate Iran on sabotage and reconnaissance missions. A new military base is built close to the Iraq/Iran border at Badrah. The Fifth Fleet patrols in the Gulf and along Iran’s southern coast. Political preparations also continue. Accusations...
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  It’s now 110 years since Theodor Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews) and launched the Zionist movement, nearly 60 since the state he envisaged came into being. Upset by the Dreyfus case (Dreyfus was a French Jewish army officer framed as a spy for Germany), Herzl had concluded that Jews would...
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A Socialist perspective given by a Socialist Party of Great Britain member who grew up in Israel.
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With peace talks on the horizon and attacks continuing, one has to wonder if the conflicts between Israel and Palestine will ever truly be resolved. This area of the world has been perhaps that most highly contested place on the planet. On the surface the conflict appears to be a religious struggle, with both...
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