Author Archives: aidarends

A key feature of the Iraq war was the prominence of international legal argument. This article argues that the motif of the ‘illegal war’ was crucial in mobilisations against the war. It traces the reasons for the prominence of this ‘illegal war’ motif and the wider political consequences of its adoption. — Read on http://www.academia.edu/64028197/International_law_politics_and_opposition_to_the_Iraq_War

Interview with Max Fox, M.E. O’Brien, and Tiana Reid, conducted by Nico Millman — Read on http://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/25/interviews/nicomillman/pinko-magazine/

This is the second part of a two-part article on the Palestinian question. This part treats the development and trajectory of anticolonial nationalism, focusing on the post-1970s period in the Gaza Strip. It treats the growth and development of the main armed factions in the Strip, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and then discusses Israeli policiesContinue reading “Palestine’s Great Flood: Part II – Max Ajl, 2024”

This is the first part of a two-part article which considers the US-Israeli attack on Palestine in general and the Gaza Strip in particular in a world-historical and regional context. In contrast to a range of theories which resort to liberal international relations theory, economism, or methodological nationalism when theorizing accumulation in general or ArabContinue reading “Palestine’s Great Flood: Part I – Max Ajl, 2024”

Israel attacks Iran. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/culmination

Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat…when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose from the grim continuity of daily life.”  Published nine years before his death this April, and inscribed “for Oakland, for theContinue reading “For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover | Verso Books”