Latest Additions - Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists

Accountability for Assad’s Murder of Marie Colvin: A Precedent for Justice?

by Javier Sethness It was from Baba Amr that Colvin courageously went live on CNN, the BBC, ITN News, and Channel 4 News, on February 21, 2012, to belie the Assad regime's fabrications that its assault on the district was exclusively targeting so-called “terrorists.”...

Imprisoned Argentinian Workers in Support of Striking Iranian Workers

Editors’ note: Below, we publish a statement from the Commission of Condemned Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras, Argentina in response to the appeal of Iranian Haft-Tappeh sugarcane workers and Awhaz steel workers. The oil...

Don’t Forget the Syrians

Editors’ Note: Below is the translation of an Arabic text by Syrian playwright, Mohammad Al Attar. Syrians die ceaselessly, die generously, and die individually and collectively. They experience every manner of death. They die violently, from disease, or...

From Exile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism” in the U.S.

by Alexander Reid Ross “What’s wrong?” I asked my friend Mikhail* as he stumbled into the dorm room. “You seem shaken up.” “It’s nothing,” he said, sitting next to me on the bed. “A gang tried to beat me up on my way from the Metro.” It happened in a central district...

Syria, the United States, and the Left

As the war in Syria draws to a close, the debate on the U.S. left over that conflict seems as intractable as ever. The immediacy of Syrian politics for Americans seems to ebb and flow as the war impinges on a shifting but surprisingly broad scope of issues salient to...

Peel Back Tulsi Gabbard’s “Progressive” Veneer

By Stanley Heller (a version of this appeared on the blog Economic Uprising) Tulsi Gabbard is getting a pass from people who should know better, first from Glenn Greenwald and then from the folks at Democracy Now. They describe her as...

The Me Too Movement in the Middle East

by Lara al-Kateb and Omar Abbas with contributions from Selin Cagatay, Frieda Afary, Fatemeh Masjedi and socialist feminists inside Iran The Me Too movement against sexual assault and rape has animated women throughout the world. In the Middle East too, despite...

Free Iranian Labor Leaders, Jafar Azimzadeh and Parvin Mohammadi

The Free Union of Iranian Workers is unique in several ways. It includes Parvin Mohammadi, a woman, as one of its two leaders. In its statements and analyses , it has opposed the Iranian regime’s militarism, military spending and has also...

Publication of Adopt a Revolution: Reconstructing Syria: Risks and side effects Strategies, actors and interests

Summary The reconstruction plans of the al-Assad regime largely ignore the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The regime’s reconstruction strategy does not address the most pressing needs of over 10 million Syrian IDPs and refugees. Instead it...

Exposing Tulsi Gabbard’s Ties to Hateful Politics

Recently, Tulsi Gabbard, a representative for Hawaii in the U.S. Congress, announced that she is considering nominating herself as a presidential candidate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Shiyam Galyon and Sina Zekavat, members of the Alliance of Middle...