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21 June 2007
Iraq and Afghanistan: Many British people hope that, as prime minister, Gordon Brown will hasten the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq...
14 June 2007
Oil, profits, sleaze and hypocrisy
Saudi arms contract: THE FINANCIAL Times called it 'An arms deal that stinks of hypocrisy'. The FT does not normally rail against commercial deals that make super-profits...
14 June 2007
Western hypocrisy over 'democracy' utilised by Putin
US-Russia tensions heightened: NOT SINCE the height of the cold war have tensions between Russia and the western imperialist powers been so tense...
24 May 2007
Can solar power solve our energy needs?
Australia is feeling the power of the sun. The state of New South Wales is suffering an unprecedented five years of drought, probably caused by global...
26 April 2007
Nigerian elections - a dangerous farce
EVEN BY the standards of Nigeria's previous elections this April's state and national elections were a complete farce....
19 April 2007
LORD BROWNE, retiring chief executive of Britain's biggest oil company BP, has faced complaints from shareholders over his remuneration package...
12 April 2007
Nuclear power is not the answer
Climate change debate: THE LABOUR government's proposed "solution" to concerns about oil and gas supplies and the menace of global warming is to push ahead with a programme of renewing nuclear power stations...
12 April 2007
Battling over the world's oil reserves
ALISTAIR TICE looks at the rivalry for access to the world's oil supplies and assesses the likely consequences for the world economy, and the continued dominance of US imperialism....
15 March 2007
US continues threats over Iran's nuclear ambitions
TENSIONS BETWEEN the US and Iran became feverish as the United Nations (UN) security council resolution (insisted upon by the US) instructing Iran to suspend its nuclear programme, passed its 21 February deadline...
8 March 2007
What's Left? - not Nick Cohen!
PETER TAAFFE reviews What's Left? by Nick Cohen and replies to his accusation that the 'left' supported Saddam Hussein because it opposed the invasion...
22 February 2007
Anti-War demonstration 19 March 2005, photo Paul Mattsson |
22 February 2007
Iraq 'surge' doomed to failure
Only workers' unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out: NEWSPAPER REPORTS this week reveal that US General Tommy Franks met with his top officers in August 2002 to review their invasion plan for Iraq...
1 February 2007
BP condemned over safety standards
A RECENT US report slammed Britain's biggest oil company BP for flouting safety standards in this very dangerous industry...
11 January 2007
Iraq: AS WE go to press, President Bush is due to tell the US Congress his plans for Iraq...
11 January 2007
The Lagos oil pipeline tragedy was avoidable
Nigeria letter: IMMEDIATELY AFTER the devastating oil pipeline explosion on Boxing Day in Lagos, Nigeria, in which 265 mainly poor people were killed, the Democratic Socialist Movement, (DSM - the Socialist Party's counterpart in Nigeria) i...
5 October 2006
Big profits, big power, big problems...: IN A follow-up article to his centre-page feature in the socialist 456 on the geopolitics of oil, LYNN WALSH looks at the problems caused by the power of the ruthless oil giants in the economy...
28 September 2006
Capitalism's ruthless struggle for oil and gas
The geopolitics of oil: EVER SINCE oil became a crucial resource at the beginning of the 20th century, fuel for motor vehicles and modern warships, it has been at the heart of geopolitical struggle, writes Lynn Walsh.
7 September 2006
The collapse of the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers, after two planes were deliberately flown into the huge buildings, and the resulting deaths of nearly 3,000 people, is a terrible, tragic event etched in the memory of hundreds of millions of people around the world...
11 May 2006
The part-nationalisation of Bolivia's gas and oil industry by president Evo Morales, similar to Hugo Chávez's decree in Venezuela earlier this year, is another blow to the 'neo-liberal' agenda of big business and imperialism in Latin America...
16 March 2006
DEMONSTRATIONS AROUND the world on 18 March will be demanding that imperialist forces get out of Iraq. But opposition to any US attack on Iran will be an urgent theme in this year's third-anniversary protests. LYNN WALSH looks...
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