On New Year’s Day, a US military veteran who identified as a member of the Islamic State rammed and killed 14 late-night revelers with a truck in New Orleans. A Firebrand member and New Orleans resident offers a political perspective on the attack, placing it in context of the US’s bloody wars in the Middle East.
Recently deceased US president Jimmy Carter has predictably been eulogized across the political spectrum as a statesman and a progressive saint. However, socialists should never mourn presidents, the servants of capital and our class enemies. Instead we should remember Carter for what he was: a Cold Warrior, a war criminal, and one of the key architects of neoliberalism.
The current civil war in Sudan, with rival factions backed by foreign imperialist powers, has resulted in a terrible humanitarian crisis. The social and economic causes of the war are storied and complex — but are also the result of Western imperialism and the neoliberal capitalist order leaving an African nation with desperately limited resources, crippling austerity, and ethnic division.
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