How Liberals Learned to Love NATO
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, NATO has been presented as a defensive alliance for democracy — but its actual history has been the promotion of Western imperial interests, often at the point of a gun.
7 Articles by:
Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray is vice chair of Stop the War and a Tribune columnist.
The Iraq War Exposes the West’s Ukraine Hypocrisy
On this day in 2003, the Iraq War began. It was an illegal invasion in the same mould as Putin’s war in Ukraine – but almost two decades later, its architects have faced no consequences.
Keir Starmer’s Start the War Coalition
Keir Starmer’s latest attack on Stop the War had nothing to do with peace. Its aim was simple: to convince the hawks who dominate Western foreign policy that Labour no longer stands in the way of their warmongering.
The Warmonger Internationalists
The moves to realign Labour’s foreign policy after Corbyn reveal exactly what the political centre means by ‘internationalism’ – liberal values advanced at the point of a cruise missile.
Class Politics After Corbyn
The failure of Corbynism was its inability to cut through in working-class communities. The risk of a Starmer-led Labour Party is that it abandons that effort altogether.
Assessing Defeat
To understand December’s loss, socialists should look beyond the ‘Brexit or Corbyn’ binary to deeper problems facing the labour movement which can’t be solved by charting a course towards the centre, argues Andrew Murray.
Why the Left Came Back
The media treats Corbyn’s emergence as an anomaly. In fact, it is the product of decades of failed economic policies.