Duterte’s arrest: justice for the Filipino people won’t be found in the Hague While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, argues KENNY COYLE
Monday 05th Aug 2024 A dangerous path in the Asia-Pacific: China branded a ‘systemic challenge’ In the final part of his series on Labour’s possible foreign policy in government, KENNY COYLE warns that the party’s so-called ‘progressive realism’ could see increasing aggression towards China, with added uncertainty over a potential second Trump presidency
Saturday 03rd Aug 2024 Nato, nukes and a new cold war In the second of his three-part series on how the new Labour government’s foreign policy is likely to shape up, KENNY COYLE examines David Lammy’s writings on Asia and the Indo-Pacific region – where the risk of military flashpoints is high
Monday 15th Jan 2024 Understanding the elections in Taiwan The main, Western-backed separatist party has returned to power – but with a smaller majority, thanks in part to the emergence of a ‘third camp’ sitting between full independence and reunification with China, explains KENNY COYLE
Saturday 30th Sep 2023 Canada and the whitewashing of Nazis In the late cold war period Canadian scholars were at the forefront of promoting revisionist theories that downplayed the horrors of Nazism – no wonder Justin Trudeau’s apologies over the Hunka affair do not ring true, says KENNY COYLE
Thursday 28th Sep 2023 Exclusive Who is Yaroslav Hunka? – A sordid cold war story The Waffen SS Galicia Division veteran whose celebration in the Canadian parliament has caused outrage entered Canada by way of Northamptonshire, where he lived after the war, avoiding any semblance of justice. KENNY COYLE investigates
Thursday 13th Apr 2023 Working-class unity and the nations of Britain KENNY COYLE reviews a new pamphlet on the labour movement and the national question
Friday 24th Mar 2023 British war-hawks’ new flirtation with Taiwan is bad news KENNY COYLE explains that the recent British-Taiwanese all-party parliamentary group visit to the contested island is part of a drive to get involved in a conflict Britain had the good sense to abandon in the 1970s
Friday 18th Nov 2022 Analysis Untangling the Polish missile crisis: did the US know what was afoot from the start? KENNY COYLE on the background of the explosion in Przewodow
Monday 07th Nov 2022 Is Britain already at war with Russia? Britain gave £2.3 billion to Ukraine’s war effort in 2022, along with vehicles, equipment and training of soldiers on British soil — but direct involvement in the war long predates the Russian invasion, explains KENNY COYLE
Friday 07th Oct 2022 Why shouldn’t Taiwan be independent? The debate around Taiwanese independence in the West largely ignores what Taiwan's actual politics and territorial aspirations are — it does in fact see itself as part of China, but the 'true China' — this is the real dispute, argues KENNY COYLE
