Oil, natural gas and capitalism War in Ukraine and the Middle East plays into the hands of the US oil and natural gas imperialists, warns ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Wednesday 14th Sep 2022 Why the war in Ukraine must be stopped Beyond ideas of Russian aggression and Nato encroachment lie the deeper causes of this war: competition for energy markets and resources between the East and West. This is not worth a single human life, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Monday 30th May 2022 Report card on a failing economic system Capital’s imperative to reproduce itself has taken it into riskier and riskier places, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Monday 28th Mar 2022 Opinion ‘Is Russia an imperialist country?’ — that’s not the right question to ask Many Western leftists are looking to the writings of Lenin to answer the question of whether Russia is an imperialist country or not – but that is to overlook what the great Russian revolutionary was actually seeking to explain, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Monday 29th Nov 2021 Inflation: the working class doesn’t have to pay for it As organised labour gets more assertive at last, we cannot let rising prices outstrip our wages – inflation is the result of monopoly capitalism and the rich must be the ones that are forced ‘cut back,’ explains ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Tuesday 23rd Nov 2021 Bad ideas: why is the left so keen to champion every idea that avoids confrontation with capitalism? The class struggle is a zero-sum game, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Thursday 23rd Sep 2021 The return of anti-monopoly politics? Opposition to the mega-companies that dominate industry cannot be left to the political centre — the labour movement could build a a powerful coalition around the cause. But beware, warns ZOLTAN ZIGEDY, this is still not anti-capitalism
Sunday 29th Aug 2021 Afghanistan follies The end of the 20-year US-Afghanistan adventure is another one of imperialism’s overreaching, supremely arrogant, regime change projects ending in fiasco, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Monday 09th Aug 2021 Gutting anti-imperialism The early US often had a far better understanding of the injustices of imperialism than their modern liberal descendants with their selective application of ‘human rights,’ writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Tuesday 27th Jul 2021 A tale of two countries Haiti and Cuba have the same enemies and are victimised by the same imperialist forces, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Thursday 03rd Jun 2021 Chile after nearly fifty years of despair Today, as the nation gets ready to write a new constitution, the horror and tragedy of the Pinochet coup and regime of terror is widely known. What is shocking is the history of Cold Warrior sell-outs who blocked solidarity inside the US labour movement, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY