Militarism

Militarism

• Why socialists oppose imperialist wars

  

  Smashing the link between militarism and the system is a fixed task for our side, argues Dominic Alexander

• If you are against the West's wars you need to be against Nato

  

  Chris Nineham looks at Nato’s interventionist history and its deranged bid to expand operations to every corner of the world

• Where is the love?

  

  An anti-arms trade campaigner explains what the DSEI arms fair is and why it is so important to join the protests against it when it comes to London in September

• Sudan: fury on the streets

  

  Months of fearless mass protest force one of the world’s most brutal military regimes, and its external backers, into a power-sharing deal, reports Susan Ram

• The environmental cost of the United States war-machine

  

  The sheer scale and perpetual nature of US military operations make it unimaginably destructive for the planet, argues Pete Morgan

• The Russians are Coming, Again - book review

  

  Kuzmarov and Marciano's analysis of the US media demonisation of Russia warns of the danger of a new cold war, in full historical context, finds Martin Hall

• Gavin Williamson: delusional and dangerous

  

  Gavin Williamson's latest speech with jingoistic rhetoric and calling for more military spending shows just how out of touch with reality he is, argues Lindsey German

• Climate chaos is the most political issue of our time, to stop it we need systemic change

  

  Climate breakdown is a political issue, and to stop it we need to tackle it at the root, argues Jim Scott

• Stop bombing Yemen

  

  Our movement has set its sights on the UK's barbaric arms trade, reports Jonathan Maunders

• The politics of Remembrance

  

  Remembrance is about the present and the future, not just the past, argues Alex Snowdon in this repost of his 2015 article

• Saudi rogue killers? Why the West is so quiet about the death of Jamal Khashoggi

  

  The murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate in Turkey will irretrievably tarnish Saudi Arabia’s reputation in Western public opinion, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• Military propaganda must end

  

  The MoD is attempting to rebrand life in the military in order to recruit vulnerable young people, argues Jago Corry

• Syria: the solution is not more military intervention

  

  As Theresa May prepares to back Trump in escalating military intervention in Syria, Stop the War published the following letter in response

• The Salisbury incident: facts not necessary

  

  After Porton Down experts revealed that they can't confirm the origin of the nerve agent, it's clear that the government is trying to manipulate the public argue Johnny Charles and Harry Rogers

• Did the West provoke this crisis with Russia?

  

  A US army study, 'Is the Next Global Conflict Imminent?', suggests NATO expansion is the key driver of tension with Russia

• 'Making France great again': Macron to bring back compulsory military service

  

  Macron is at one with Trump in his quest for a return to national ‘greatness’ with his call for compulsory military service argues Susan Ram

• Russia and imperialism today

  

  Putin’s Russia is an authoritarian state, but does it pose the threat that advocates of the NATO alliance often claim? John Rees looks at the profile of Russian military power today.

• Fear and loathing in the Trump White House

  

  The blunders of the Trump team have provided cover for the consolidation of a quasi-military clique at the highest levels of the US state, writes Sean Ledwith

• Armed force on the streets: the French experience

  

  France’s state of emergency has suspended civil liberties while failing to stop the menace of terrorism

• Obama: the peacenik’s president?

  

  Don’t believe the hype, the Obama administration’s war record is bloody and shameful, argues Lindsey German

• Trump and Nato: continuity and change

  

  As the dust begins to settle on the result of the US presidency, Jonathan Maunders disentangles the reality from the rhetoric in Trump's nascent foreign policy   

• Libya: hindsight is not good enough

  

  The anti-war movement argued unequivocally against intervention in Libya, and the Foreign Affairs Committee proved it was right, argues Chris Nineham

• Failed coup, new clampdown

  

  President Erdoğan is using the defeat of the coup in Turkey to repress opposition, as this analysis from the Turkish and Kurdish Centre Day-Mer explains

• Responding to terror: Brussels, anger and understanding

  

  Frank Barat argues that we have to understand the root causes of terrorism if we are to achieve a peaceful world

• Back on the attack: the meaning of Cameron's defence review

  

  Not only is new money being pumped into the military – it is being targeted on strengthening UK ability to intervene internationally

• Starvation and austerity: the price of Britain's military spending

  

  Look at what could be done with the £37 billion Britain spends annually on its military and foreign wars

• 'We Are Many' - telling the secret story of people power

  

  A great virtue of the film is how it shows the impact 15 February 2003 had on movements that followed and even now is shaping politics

• Destroying Libya to 'save it': David Cameron has no regrets

  

  The anti-war movement's prediction that western interventions would set the Middle East on fire, have proved tragically true, but that will not stop politicians fanning the flames