Welcome to the new Algerian revolution: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene
Omar Hassan speaks to Algerian scholar and activist Hamza Hamouchene, coordinator of Environmental Justice North Africa and co-founder of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign, about the mass movement sweeping the country. April 17, 2019 In 2011, a wave of revolutionary...
read moreVenezuela: a country held hostage
Under the global spotlight for the past two months, Venezuela is perhaps the most debated and at the same time misunderstood country in recent times. The truth embraces demanding paradoxes: a country ruined but rich in resources, with a civilian-military dictatorship...
read moreAlgeria in revolt: “We woke up and you will pay!”
What makes this movement really unique is its massive scale, peaceful character and national spread, including the marginalized south. The movement is also characterized by a significant participation of women and especially young people, who constitute the majority...
read moreThe Fall of Sudan’s “Morsisi”
By Gilbert Achcar April 12, 2019 The Sudanese people just toppled their longtime autocratic leader, Omar al-Bashir. It's a confirmation that the revolutionary ferment of the Arab Spring didn't die out in 2011. On December 17, 2010, the self-immolation of a young...
read moreIranian Masses Crushed by Floods, Militarized State Capitalist Regime and U.S. Imperialist Sanctions
In this article, I would like to examine the causes and catastrophic consequences of the current floods in Iran. This is a disaster brought about not simply by natural causes and mismanagement but by the logic of capital in a repressive...
read moreDocumentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : 1948: Creation & Catastrophe
Through riveting and moving personal recollections of both Palestinians and Israelis, 1948: Creation & Catastrophe reveals the shocking events of the most pivotal year in the most controversial conflict in the world. 1948: Creation & Catastrophe tells the...
read moreVenezuelan 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...
read moreThe 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,...
read moreAccountability 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.”...
read moreFrom 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...
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