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Editorial of the Socialist issue 1358 US and Israeli missiles are continuing to rain down on Iran, with thousands killed. The Iranian regime is in turn still firing at targets across the Middle East. Fifteen countries have so far been hit by one side or the other, with an estimated 7.5 million people living within 1km of a missile or ...

The Netanyahu-Trump gang is expanding regional conflagration in service of the occupation and the rule of capital Advance broad protest, refusal, and strike action with the call: No to the Israel-Iran war, an end to the war of extermination in Gaza, overthrow Israel’s ‘government of death’ – yes to a cross-border struggle for equality, welfare, and personal security, no to ...

By Berkay Kartav London Socialist Party On Saturday 13 January, once again hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of London to join the first national demonstration of 2024, marching from Bank to Downing Street. Appalled by the brutal war on Gaza and the recent US and British airstrikes in Yemen, it was clear that the anger towards world ...

Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1170 The horror of war, of families fleeing for their lives as bombs fall on their cities and towns, is dominating the news. Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is being watched with fear and revulsion. His farcical propaganda claims this is a ‘special military operation’, designed to fight ‘Ukrainian fascism’. Yet Ukraine is being trampled ...

Stop the war in UkraineWithdraw Russian troops and end the bombingNo trust in NatoFor workers’ unity, for self-determination and full democratic rights for all minoritiesNo trust in Johnson, Putin, Biden, or Zelensky. For an independent workers’ movementFight for a socialist alternative to capitalism and war War is the inevitable consequence of an international capitalist system based on profit, exploitation and ...

By Robert Bechert on the CWI website  Shockwaves went around the world, and outrage spread in the Middle East, as news broke of Trump’s unilateral decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and a key Iranian leader. Suleimani had a legendary status, particularly amongst Shias, throughout the Middle East. He was a labourer’s son ...

Solidarity with the victims! Down with terrorism and imperialist war! Their wars; our dead! On 17 August, a brutal terrorist attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona saw a van drive more than half a kilometre, running over hundreds of people in its path. The tragic result of this attack was the death of 13 people, with more than 100 injured ...

Young people out enjoying themselves were instead faced with one of the worst kinds of horror imaginable on 22 May when a bomb was exploded in the foyer of the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Twenty two people were killed and at least 59 injured by this blast at the end of a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. This atrocity, which ...