Two wars over Ukraine
Pacifists and liberals are fond of repeating the old adage that ‘the first casualty of war is the truth.’ In fact, the exact contrary is far closer to the truth: […]
Category Archives: inter-imperialist rivalries
Why the Australian-New Zealand military adventure in the Solomon Islands is bound to fail
The New Zealand government announced 1 December that over the coming weeks it will be deploying a force of about 65 ‘peace-keeping’ troops and police to the Solomon Islands, at […]
China’s great precursor: Trotsky on the rise of US imperialism
Part 3 of China in the age of American decrepitude The six years following the publication of Lenin’s Imperialism were a time of uninterrupted political upheaval in Europe, as the […]
Lenin on the imperialist stage of capitalism
Part 2 of China in the age of American decrepitude Empires and imperialism in a general sense have existed for at least two thousand years, since the time of the […]
China’s extraordinary industrial hegemony
China in the age of American decrepitude – Part 1 The breath-taking rapidity of China’s economic development over the last three or four decades races ahead of our ability to […]
A worker at large 