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Iran war exposes the decrepitude of Britain’s armed forces
Desperate to maintain Britain’s relevance, successive governments have pledged to ramp up military spending – a promise that British capitalism cannot afford. The Iran war is now exposing that Britain has no independent military role to play on the world stage.
The rise and fall of the US Empire
Today, we are witnessing the relative decline of US imperialism. This crucial subject is outlined in John Peterson’s fantastic book ‘Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism’. Here, we reproduce extracts from the book alongside a review from a reader.
British imperialism’s history of plunder in Iran
While the liars, hypocrites and thieves in Westminster cynically hope for the downfall of the Iranian regime for their own aims, we look at the real history of British imperialism in Iran. Starmer and co. are no friends of Iranian “freedom”: hands off Iran!
Monopolies and imperialism: How big corporations dominate our lives
2026 has started with an almighty imperialist bang. Given the current actions of US imperialism, kidnapping the president of Venezuela and threatening the rest of Latin America and Greenland, it is clear that imperialism is something communists must understand.
A brief history of the East India Company
425 years ago this month, the East India Company was founded in London. This “empire within an empire” soon ruled almost the entirety of the Indian subcontinent, bleeding its people dry – and laying down the foundations for the development of British imperialism.
NATO, Ukraine, and Zelensky: Zarah Sultana hits out against western imperialism
Zarah Sultana has come out forcefully against the institutions and allies of western imperialism, denouncing NATO and Zelensky. Such welcome words must be given flesh and blood, by mobilising workers against the warmongers in London and Washington.