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Venezuelan Socialist Speaks to Middle Eastern Socialists

Editors’ Note: On March 9, 2019, Eva Maria, Venezuelan socialist writer and activist spoke to a meeting of the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists. Below is the text of her presentation: First of all, thank you so much for inviting me...

The Trajectory of India Under Modi

Narendra Modi has from his childhood been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which had links to Italian fascism and Nazism; from the period when Modi was chief minister to this day, school textbooks in Gujarat, ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP,...

Statement of Solidarity with Refugee Movement in Greece

By: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Endorsed By: Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists and Southwest Asian & North Afrikan - Los Angeles (SWANA-LA) Circulated 3/9/19 Earlier this week, the Greek Ministry of Migration Policy under extensive pressure by the...

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...

The Syrian Death

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...

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