U.S. Foreign Policy

Can The Left Become Relevant To Islamic Pakistan?

by Pervez Hoodbhoy

Summer 2010

The left has always been a marginal actor on Pakistan’s national scene. While this bald truth must be told, in no way do I wish to belittle the enormous sacrifices made by numerous progressive individuals, as well as small groups. They unionized industrial and railway workers, helped peasants organize against powerful landlords, inspired Pakistan’s minority provinces to demand their rights, set standards of writing and journalism, etc.

Obama's Foreign Policy: The View from Canada

by Derrick O'Keefe

Summer 2010

Canadian author Margaret Atwood famously described the border between our country and the United States as the world’s longest “one-way mirror.”

Questions for the Peace Movement: The U.S. Occupation of Iraq

by Joanne Landy

Winter 2004

 

This article is part of an ongoing discussion of the Iraq war and its aftermath. Various New Politics editors will be writing on this subject in future issues, not always with identical viewpoints, and we welcome contributions from our readers.

 

 

Unraveling Iraq: The Sociopolitical and Ethical Dimensions of Resistance

by Wadood Hamad

Winter 2005

Iraq, as one long conversant in its fervent political history remarked to me, is much like the earth resting underneath a giant rock laid there for a very long time. The U.S.-led invasion of 2003 destabilized -- if not moved -- this rock and unleashed a multitude of organisms that were unknown even to local residents.

Self-determination and Democracy in the Iraqi Conflict

by Barry Finger

Winter 2005

The demand for national liberation, for the right of self-determination of a people, is understood by socialists to be a demand for radical, consistent democracy. This at once separates us from those who, such as the Buchananite paleocons, place the inviolability of the national principle above all other considerations and who may consistently oppose imperial interventions on that basis.

Symposium on Iraq and the Antiwar Movement

Summer 2005

We are pleased to publish the following exchange on the politics of the U.S. occupation, the Iraqi resistance, and the antiwar movement. The symposium builds on a trio of articles -- by Barry Finger, Wadood Hamad, and Glenn Perusek -- that appeared in New Politics 38 (Winter 2005).