Middle East
18 July 2021 · · Middle East, Palestine
Palestinian liberation and the MENA revolutions
Israel’s recent attacks against Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza demonstrated, once again, the brutal colonial, racist, and apartheid nature of the Zionist state, writes Josep…
8 February 2020 · Middle East, Syria, Uncategorized
Syria: 9 years of struggle for democracy
S OCIALIST RESISTANCE - The movement for democracy which erupted in 2011 in Syria, alongside others in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), gave hope that the Syrian people could overthr…
17 October 2019 · · Kurdish struggle, Middle East, Turkey
Erdogan launches reign of terror to crush Rojava
By Sarah Parker and Phil Hearse “They didn’t help us in Normandy, in the Second World War” was Donald Trump’s less than entirely relevant comment on the fate of Syrian Kurds, after his green…
10 October 2019 · Kurdish struggle, Middle East, Turkey, Uncategorized
Trump’s 'stab in the back' to the Kurdish national movement
In one more blatant display of his erratic character, political irresponsibility and human carelessness, US President Donald J. Trump abruptly announced on the night of Sunday 6 October, fol…
27 August 2019 · Kurdish struggle, Middle East, Syria
Oppose Continuing Assaults on Idlib and on Kurds in Northeastern Syria
We, the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists oppose the military attacks on the Idlib region and northern Hama and threats and assaults against the northeastern regions of…
30 June 2019 · Africa, Middle East, Sudan
Solidarity with the revolution in Sudan
The popular revolution in Sudan is an inspiration and gives hope for the fight for democracy and for social and economic justice in the Arab world. It has already scored one huge success by …
6 June 2019 · Africa, Middle East
Sudan: “The general strike can force the regime to go”
“The general strike can force the regime to go”: Sudanese trade unionists speak out as killings continue - By Miriam Scharf and Irang Bak A general strike has brought Khartoum and all major …
28 May 2019 · Israel, Middle East, Palestine · 1 comment
As Israel lines up with the far right, step up solidarity with Palestine
Israelis living in a self-imposed cultural bubble, in which they see themselves as living somewhere in the mid-Atlantic remote from the Middle East, saw their composure very slightly dented …
25 February 2018 · Middle East, Syria
Syria: the war is far from over
Gilbert Achcar met with Syrian Corner during Syria Awareness Week in February 2018 at SOAS. Achcar posits that the Syrian conflict is far from over and that for Bashar al-Assad to establish …
3 November 2017 · Israel, Middle East, Palestine, antisemitism
Palestinians still paying for European antisemitism
The hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, by which Britain promised the land of Palestine, over the heads of its Arab inhabitants, to Jews fleeing European racism and pogroms, ha…
11 February 2017 · Middle East, Reviews, Tunisia, Uncategorized
Brothers in power
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi, 2016 £16.99 reviewed by Farooq Suleheria The phenomenon of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is a vital case…