United States
A divided Squad is sign of Democrats’ flaws
Are cracks appearing in the Squad—the group of left Democratic Party members in the US House of Representatives?
International round-up: Revenge raids escalate after prison escape in Palestine
Israeli soldiers have captured the last two of six Palestinian prisoners who liberated themselves from a high security jail nearly two weeks ago.
Biden ramps up new arms race with China
Aukus is the agreement by the United States and Britain to supply Australia with the technology to build eight nuclear submarines.
Attica riot 1971—‘We aren’t beasts, we won’t be beaten’
Fifty years ago prisoners in a US jail exploded in revolt. Sam Ord looks at the resistance—and the state’s revenge
‘We’re not criminals,’ say protesting migrants trapped in Mexico by US
Hundreds of migrants trapped in southern Mexico protested on Wednesday against the state’s immigration rules.
Why the US right attack abortion
Abortion rights have been hard fought for in the US. Now some of these rights are under ferocious assault. Isabel Ringrose explores a history of resistance and shows why the right’s view on abortion is complicated
Europe’s imperialism is still reliant on US
07 September 2021The Western ruling classes’ response to the entirely predictable Taliban victory in Afghanistan is astonishing—combining arrogance, self-deception, and panic.
More die as US state fails those hit by storm
07 September 2021Far from helping, President Biden is creating conditions that will lead to more disasters, says Sophie Squire
Fury as Texas bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy
01 September 2021This assault on women's rights is part of a sustained attack across large parts of the United States
Hurricane Katrina—class, race and climate change
31 August 2021As flash flooding and tornadoes hit the north-east United States, Sophie Squire looks at the lessons from Hurricane Katrina in 2005
Same lies to justify killings in Afghanistan two decades on
31 August 2021All the lies used to justify the terror the West inflicted on Afghanistan 20 years ago played out over its airstrike on children last week.
US military continued killings of children in Afghanistan
31 August 2021The United States military left Afghanistan as it arrived—by killing children.
The climate crisis fuels hurricanes
30 August 2021Hurricane Ida has spread panic across the US Gulf Coast as 150 mile an hour winds and torrential rains lashed the state of Louisiana.
Dangerous wounded beasts—the failures of imperialism
29 August 2021Nick Clark looks at the US's and Britain's huge defeats in Afghanistan
Feminism, bombs and liberation
28 August 2021Lies are being spun that most Afghan women’s lives improved under the US occupation. Judy Cox explores the reality for Afghan women after 20 years of war
Philips recalls breathing machines in US but not in Britain
26 August 2021Medical equipment company Philips has recalled millions of machines used to treat sleep apnoea in the United States because of fears of potential serious harm to users.
State tried to derail Black Lives Matter
24 August 2021Something of an echo of the establishment panic of the late 1960s is reverberating around the seats of power in Britain and the US.
The firms who made a fortune from the slaughter in Afghanistan
18 August 2021The US paid private contractors £136 billion, over the eight years to 2019.
Key articles on the defeat of imperialism in Afghanistan
18 August 2021Here are some of our key articles written as the regime in Afghanistan collapsed, a grievous defeat for British and US imperialism
Earthquake causes new devastation across Haiti
17 August 2021As Haiti is struck by earthquakes, Sam Ord explores the damage that imperialism has done
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