The US-led invasion of Iraq began 20 years ago. Since then, the country has been torn apart by war, sectarianism, and fundamentalism. To end the horror and barbarism of imperialism, we must fight for revolution.
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CIA Used Prisoner as “Prop” to Teach Torture Methods
It has been revealed that the CIA spent three years using a detainee in Afghanistan as a “puppet” to train interrogators in torture methods.
The Killing of Qassem Soleimani: Oppose US Imperialist Aggression!
In an act of supreme arrogance, the Trump administration killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Yet again, US imperialism is adding to the instability in the Middle East.
Iraq: Against Imperialism and Fundamentalism
In a press conference on August 28, US president Barack Obama openly admitted that he did not have a strategy yet to combat the jihadist ISIS group in Iraq and Syria. Obama’s confession reveals the impasse the US are facing with the new, explosive crisis provoked in the Middle East by the advance of ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Iraq Falling Apart: The Forces Behind the Insurgency
The speed with which large swathes of Iraqi territory have fallen to a relatively small force of armed militias begs the question as to how this was possible. The Iraqi armed forces were numerically much superior to the groups who took over towns such as Mosul in the north. The army actually melted away. This cannot be explained simply by referring to armed Islamic groups. Something deeper is going on.
Civil War and Black Reaction in Iraq: a Frankenstein’s Monster of Imperialism Raises its Head
ISIS captured Mosul and then proceeded South towards Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands have already fled fearing their lives under the rule of this reactionary group. This specter of barbarism rising on the horizon is the direct result of the cynical adventures of American imperialism.
Contracting Out the War in Iraq
After Blackwater USA’s recent street shoot out in Baghdad, which resulted in as many as 17 civilian deaths, the role of mercenaries in Iraq has received extra attention in the media. Although they have played a key role in the occupation of Iraq...
The Iraq War Comes Home to Roost
Editorial for SA #33
Like the Katrina disaster two years ago, the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis, MN is yet another reminder of the real effects of the capitalist policy of “guns before butter”. A key bridge in a city with some of the worst rush hour congestion in the country, it is just one of the 73,784 U.S. bridges found by the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be “structurally deficient or functionally obsolete” – including 64.8 percent of the bridges in Washington, DC. The thirteen people who lost their lives are just part of the tragedy.
For a United Anti-War Movement: Statement by the WIL
The Workers International League enthusiastically endorses ANSWER’s May 31 call for a peaceful, legal, united front antiwar demonstration. The basic unifying slogan “End the War Now!” can effectively mobilize the millions of workers and youth who want the war ended immediately.
Is NATO Using Depleted Uranium in Yugoslavia?
The use of high-tech weapons by the NATO alliance may have some serious, lasting environmental and health effects on the people of the Balkans.
The Communist: Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.