Category: War and peace

The Israeli state has responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas has its headquarters and over 2.3 million civilians have their homes, starving inhabitants of food, water, medicines and fuel. But why did this happen? And what can be done about it?

We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid.

Barak said, “Every reporter that lives in Gaza or in Israel knows” about the location of this command center. His claim is preposterous.

How the Gaza conflict is viewed from the Global South

Anne-Sylvie Sprenger interviews Gilbert Achcar on the Gazan conflict

Statement by the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

What happens when the right takes over a nationalist movement?

The attack on Gaza threatens massive human suffering

Start with the rockets fired into Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and not with the illegal occupation of Palestinian land by Israel and the blockade of Gaza since 2007, and you have an entirely different story.

Israeli draft refuser discusses the roots of Hamas’s horrendous attack

An inappropriate award to Jeffrey Sachs

Further reply to Achcar on Ukrainian arms and alliances

You cannot understand the war in Ukraine without knowing its history.

After the bait-and-switch bombing of Japan, the appalled leader of the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, embarks on a public crusade for a future free of nuclear holocaust, thinking that great minds will save the people.

In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.

Betsy Zucker reviews Gordon et al.’s book “Our Veterans,” on the veterans’ healthcare in the US and the threat of privatization.

Promise Li reviews Gilbert Achcar’s “The New Cold War,” an analysis of inter-imperialist rivalry between the US, Russia, and China.

The ties between India and Russia, and a call for the Indian left to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Drawing in part on his own experiences in Ukraine, Carl Mirra criticizes the factual background and interpretations in Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies’ “The War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.”