Socialist Appeal
The Marxist voice of Labour and youth
On Thursday 2nd April, Iran and the world’s most powerful nations signed a preliminary outline agreement about Iran's nuclear programme. This marks the beginning of the end of a 12 year standoff between the US and Iran. Hamid Alizadeh asks: what interests lie behind the negotiations and what does the deal mean?
Since early Thursday morning, hundreds of fighter jets, representing Saudi Arabia and a wide coalition of Arab states, have been bombing targets across Yemen, killing dozens, destroying all major runways and much of key infrastructure of the country. Yemen has become the latest country emboiled by the crisis in the Middle East and the proxy wars of the imperialists.
The forces of ISIS are closing in on the besieged town of Kobane on the Turkish-Syrian border. While the rest of the world looks on, the people of Kobane are threatened with an unspeakable bloodbath. The international labour movement must rally to the defence of the Kurds who are faced with a genocidal massacre.
The struggle of the Kurdish forces that have been defending the town of Kobane against the onslaught of ISIS forces, which outnumber and outgun them, has been nothing short of heroic. These latest events, however, expose the cynical manoeuvres of the Ergodan government in Turkey and the hypocrisy of the Western imperialists.
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