British MPs have voted overwhelmingly to involve UK military forces in yet another imperialist adventure in Iraq. So successful have previous efforts at ‘stability’ and ‘democracy’ been, that the military is being sent in once again in a desperate attempt to prevent Iraq from spiralling out of the control of the Western imperialists. Rob Dransfield examines the hypocrisy and real motives of imperialism

Many in the West are justifiably horrified by the atrocities being perpetrated by the ISIS gangsters. But imperialist intervention, which led to this wreck in the first place, is no solution. There is no short-term way out. John Peterson of Socialist Appeal USA discusses the only genuine alternative: a socialist revolution that can transform the region and the world.

With the vote in Parliament last week overwhelmingly in favour of involving the Royal Air Force in attacking the ISIS in Iraq, Britain has once more become involved in an extraordinarily complex and increasingly out-of-control situation in the Middle East. Owen Walsh of the Leeds Marxists looks at the latest development in Iraq.