The growth of large metropolitan centres, especially in the South, has transformed the growing urban population – with more Black, Latino, Asian, progressive, and unionised voters. For the ruling class this poses a threat which requires a response – either diluting, or outright preventing these votes from being expressed.
The signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by Iran and the United States does not signify the end to US imperialism’s long-term assault upon the Islamic Republic.
We must now press the US to honour and implement the commitments made in the MOU.
What surrounds the 2026 World Cup is a concentrated form of how the United States conducts itself more broadly. A state that stratifies entry to its territory by race and by geopolitical alignment has staged the world’s most international event, and has carried that stratification intact into the stadium.
US imperialism’s war against Iran is entering its thirteenth week and likely to be protracted. It has killed thousands in Iran and devastated many buildings. It is also having an immense impact on the economy across the globe, and here in Britain.
The US does not need west Asia’s oil for itself, its strategy is to be able to deny it to others, particularly China.
Because this is key for the US, it will not give up its attack on Iran, only the forms will change.
Trump has lost the first round in this war on Iran, but it is too early to assume the US will lose the war.
A US escalation of its war on Iran carries the threat of world recession, climate catastrophes and horrendous levels of fatalities and suffering. The anti-war movement must be preparing to oppose any escalation and work to achieve a wider mobilisation.
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