Category: International Relations

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  China and the World Market: Thirty Years of the ‘Reform’ Policy

  It is now thirty years since the People’s Republic of China announced its market reform policy at the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party … Keep reading »

  International Relations, Social Movements  •  March 30, 2008  •  Greg Albo

• Turkish incursion into Northern Iraq: Military Fiasco, Political Debacle

  The February incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq has ended in a terrible debacle for both U.S. imperialism and Turkey. The two allies are at loggerheads once again, … Keep reading »

  International Relations  •  March 13, 2008  •  Sungur Savran
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  Putting the U.S. Economic Crisis in Perspective

  It is time to take stock. The centrality of the American economy to the capitalist world – which now literally does encompass the whole world – has spread the financial … Keep reading »

  International Relations, USA  •  January 31, 2008  •  Leo Panitch

• Turkey into the Vortex of the Iraq Quagmire

  Another breach in U.S. policy A new dimension of immense importance is being added to the contradictions of U.S. policy in Iraq and the Middle East at large. Turkey, a staunch … Keep reading »

  International Relations  •  October 30, 2007  •  Sungur Savran
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  COSATU Open Letter in Support of CUPE Resolution

  The passing of a resolution on 27 May 2006 by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in support of the Palestinian peoples has sparked a great … Keep reading »

  International Relations  •  June 7, 2006

• Palestine, Israeli Apartheid and the Canadian State

  Canada has a long and inglorious history of supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This has included the indirect support of Canadians furthering the illegal colonial settlements in the Occupied … Keep reading »

  International Relations  •  May 15, 2006
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  The End of a Political Fiction?

  Hamas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. … Keep reading »

  International Relations, Social Movements  •  January 31, 2006  •  Adam Hanieh

• The Anti-semitism of Iran’s President

  Stupidity or Deliberate Strategy? Since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Western governments became somewhat accustomed to the conciliatory gestures of both the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations. The overtly hostile … Keep reading »

  International Relations  •  December 20, 2005  •  Khashayar Hooshiyar