Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The New Cold War:
The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine
by Gilbert Achcar
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023, 350 pages, $22.95 paperback.
IN THE NEW Cold War, Gilbert Achcar describes how the United States abused its “unipolar moment” after the collapse of the Soviet (...)
At first glance, the trajectories of Russia and China in the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries seem very similar: from revolution to reintegration into the capitalist world market at the risk of (again) becoming dominated countries, followed by a rebound leading to the (...)
In a detailed analysis Geoff Ryan looks back at the formation of NATO and calls for it to be dismantled. Why? Well the evidence points to it only ever being a force to impose imperialist domination around the world.
Anti Capitalist Resistance is totally opposed to any invasion of Ukraine by (...)
Globalisation’s history, starting with Magellan’s circumnavigation 500 years ago, is not only of connection and trade, but also of intolerance, exploitation, slavery, violence, aggression, genocide.
Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of (...)
"Part I of Reading Piketty is a straight summary, with very little critical commentary, and what there is of the latter serves mainly to point to an omission on the part of Piketty or to strengthen an observation or argument he makes. Unfortunately, many people’s acquaintance with Piketty (...)
The mass slaughter of leftists in Indonesia was more than just another Washington-backed atrocity. It was the prototype for smashing the hopes and dreams of the Left in the developing world — for good.
With the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the post–Cold War global (...)
Introduction, table of contents and link for free download of this new book by Indian publisher LeftWord.
At the close of the Communist Manifesto (1848), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a line of great hope and mystery – workers of the world, unite! What did this phrase mean? In 1848, (...)
On his visit to Hiroshima last May, Obama did not, as some had vainly hoped he might, apologize for the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Instead he gave a high-sounding speech against war. He did this as he was waging ongoing drone war against defenseless enemies in faraway countries (...)
The worst US bombings of Japanese cities began in the spring of 1945, marked by the firebombing of Tokyo on March 9-10 that killed an estimated 120,000 Japanese. So total was the destruction of more than 60 large cities by August that Japan’s leaders had long accepted that massive amounts of (...)
Observers speak of the “New Cold War” as a self-evident and incontrovertible reality. Already in the spring, the new contours of international politics, demarcated by sanctions and mutual rhetorical incursions, were fully recognized by the broadest segments of the public in Russia, Europe and (...)
As its initial name indicates (International Bank for reconstruction and development), the World Bank (WB) had two main objectives:
1. bring financial support to the reconstruction of the countries that had been devastated by the Second World War;
2. grant loans to contribute to the (...)
John Riddell is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922 . Here, he explains how the First World War broke out 100 years ago, how the socialist movement reacted, and how a (...)
IN HIS AGE of Extremes, the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm marked the start of World War I in August, 1914 as the beginning of the “short twentieth century.”
In Hobsbawm’s account, that short century ended with the reunification of Germany and the breakup of the Soviet “East Bloc” in (...)
Marx once wrote that “history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living,” and even twenty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse activists are still confronted by the legacy of Stalinism. At the same time, capitalism has failed millions of working and poor people around the world. (...)
August 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate (...)
On the occasion of its centennial, the Russo-Japanese War drew great attention among historians who organized many symposia and published numerous studies. What have been the recent perspectives, debates and insights on the historical impact of the Russo-Japanese War on the imperial world (...)
This past spring, television viewers in Britain were treated to a six-part series called Civilization about the rise (and possible fall, if China has its way) of the West, hosted by the historian Niall Ferguson. The series offered a highly reductive version of history, identifying “the West” (...)
I. What was the Enlightenment?
Over two centuries ago, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote an essay entitled ‘Was ist Aufklarung?’ [What is the Enlightenment?]. For Kant, the Enlightenment represented an age when human consciousness was liberated from ignorance and error, culminating (...)
Far from having been overcome after the meeting of the representatives of the various Communist Parties at Bucharest, the conflict between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party is developing and broadening. The forms that it has taken up till now are not the (...)
Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum—America’s shrine to the technological leading edge of the military industrial complex—hear a familiar narrative from the tour guides in front of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic weapon on the civilians of Hiroshima 70 years ago (...)
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