Defence & Security Equipment International - London Exhibition

Ten years after the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Kieran Allen analyses the latest phase of US imperialism, arguing that despite the massive loss of lives and resources, the United States is steadily losing its place as the global superpower.

At the end of August an unclassified diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks focused attention on one of the many little-known atrocities of the US ‘War on Terror’. In the town of Ishaqi in 2006 American troops executed 11 Iraqi civilians before calling in an air strike to destroy the evidence.

Following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi, John Molyneux, exposes the key differences between the mass revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia and more conventional military struggle in Libya.

Ten years ago, before the events of September 11th had happened, the world's eyes where firmly fixed on a very different place, far from the skyscrapers of New York City. Holy Cross, a small Catholic girl’s primary school in North Belfast was to become infamous for scenes of sectarianism so disturbing, that even the most hardened observers of the North where left shocked.

Report from an American city up in arms

The wars that followed 9/11 were supposed to prove US power to the world, but, says Alex Callinicos, they have done the opposite

(We produce here the front page of socialist worker from the day after the attacks)

From 'socialist worker' special September 12th 2001

Colin Barker looks at what makes a revolutionary situation—those moments in history when everything seems possible—and what shapes their outcome

In the wake of the English riots, Art Historian, John Molyneux, exposes the ruling class as the real source of violence in capitalist society.

"Who will speak for the voiceless Protestant working class in Northern Ireland?"