Idlib Resists
Despite being trapped between the regime and extremists, Idlib (Syria) remains home to many civil initiatives and outpourings of resistance. November 9, 2019 by Leila Al Shami source: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/idlib-resists/ Over the past few days...
Letter from the Free Union of Iranian Workers to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Dear General Secretary Burrow, all of these acts of repression against Iranian workers are committed because the Iranian government considers any union activity by workers, teachers and all wage earners to be a security threat. It uses false security accusations to...
Livestream Event: Youth Power: Socialist Activists from Sudan, Iraq, Iran, China, U.S. in Dialogue, Nov. 17
Sunday November 17, 2019 7 p.m. -9:30 p.m. Geneva time Livestream Dialogue with socialist activists from Iraq, Iran, Sudan, China and the United States about what is new in their struggles. Our discussion will include the opposition to racism and imperialism, the...
Statement by MENA Socialist Feminists and Allies on the Popular Uprisings in the Region
In all the ongoing struggles in the region, the most progressive demands have been raised by women participants who oppose patriarchy and do not separate social justice from women’s emancipation. In order for the 2019 uprisings to move forward, the struggle for...
“The People Want the Fall of the Regime”
Article published on the website of Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/lebanon-protest-movement-inequality-austerity?fbclid=IwAR2EWx4FZtUA7XVt5L3i5aNknFkHaq35g3AT3proWX6xr2n5fhvwJskdacc The streets of Lebanon are ringing with protest chants as the country...
Lebanon’s ‘October Revolution’ must go on!
Lebanon has a golden opportunity for the formation of an alternative, we should not let the ruling class reproduce itself again. Rima Majed October 20, 2019 source: Open Democracy...
Palestine: “No Liberation Without Free Women”
The TALIAAT movement mobilized for the first time in Ramallah on September 26, 2019, bringing together more than one hundred women against violence committed against a woman by her husband. Other demonstrations were organized at the same time throughout all of...
Solidarity with Iraq Popular Protests: Statement from Alliance of MENA Socialists
The demands for social justice and economic redistribution against the neoliberal destructive policies cannot be dissociated from the opposition to the sectarian political system. The overwhelming majority of protesters continue to denounce the Islamization and...
Video of San Francisco Event in Solidarity with Iranian Women Political Prisoners
As part of a monthlong series of events for women, human rights activists and political prisoners in Iran, an art mural opening took place in San Francisco last week. Some of the artists participating were born in Iranian prisons because their mothers were political...
No to the invasion and occupation of northeastern Syria by the Turkish army
The Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists condemn Turkeys invasion of Northeastern Syria and its deadly assault on the Kurds. Last week, after U.S. president Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from Northeastern Syria on October 9th, Turkey...