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Politicians have always used atrocities to justify their own bloody wars, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Unidentified gunmen stormed the Radisson luxury hotel in Mali’s capital of Bamako on Friday of last week. They killed at least 27 people.

David Cameron wants to exploit the shock of the Paris attacks to start bombing Syria, reports Judith Orr

The US has used the excuse of fighting Isis to intervene in Iraq again and in Syria.

The world was horrified by shootings and suicide bombings that killed at least 129 people in Paris on Friday of last week.

Positively the stupidest thing said about the Paris attacks came from the French president, Francois Hollande, when he denounced them as an “act of war”. Of course they were, but this war didn’t start on Friday of last week.

The editorial committee of Al Manshour (Socialist Forum) in Lebanon report from Beirut in the aftermath of last week’s deadly suicide bomb attack

The US has launched new extended airstrikes in eastern Syria. French jets bombed the city of Raqqa.

The shock of the terrible deaths in Paris has led to an outpouring of international solidarity from ordinary people.

Imperialism and international competition lies behind wars the world over. But if capitalism causes war, what ends it? Dave Sewell looks at the revolts that stopped the slaughter

Last week the Guardian newspaper published a statement signed by 343 British academics pledging not to cooperate with Israeli academic institutions. By Friday this list had risen to over 500.

The “war on terror” was always a lie. The West had to find an enemy to help it win support for its imperialist project.