Assad’s White Supremacist Supporters
According to the Washington Post, "Syria's Assad has become an icon of the far right in America."(August 13). James Alex Fields Jr., the man who rammed his car into anti-racist counter-protesters at the white supremacists' rally in Charlottesville, VA on August 12, ...
read moreSolidarity with the Oppressed, Not the Oppressors: Why We Should Support Syrian Revolutionaries
Comments presented by Zach Medeiros at the July 14, 2017 public meeting to launch the Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice. How can we support revolutionary Syrians and the Syrian people as a whole? This is not an easy question to answer....
read moreHow Did We Go from the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement to the Destruction of the Syrian Revolution and the Global Rise of Racist Authoritarianism?
Comments presented by Frieda Afary at the July 14, 2017 public meeting to launch the Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice. In 2011, the world was abuzz with the spirit of the Arab Spring, a revolutionary movement for social justice,...
read moreReflections of a Syrian Refugee from Aleppo
What has opened the eyes of many Syrian refugees in foreign countries is the global oppression. I am happy that we started looking at things in the bigger picture. We came to the conclusion that what happened in Syria is a result of something bigger and rotten that...
read moreCrisis Between the Reactionary Monarchies of the Gulf
In this political crisis between reactionary states, we must of course denounce the political opportunism and the lies of Saudi Arabia and its allies in their campaigns of isolation and pressure against Qatar. These states are dictatorships which repress any form of...
read moreCreating a Public Library in Daraa Despite Assad Regime Bombs
“The main goals of the library are to fight the regime with education … and serve college students in opposition-controlled areas,” Loai Abu Abdou, a 34-year-old math teacher and one of the founders of Ajyal (Generations), told Syria Deeply. The article below is being...
read moreSyria’s Prisoners: Absent but Never Forgotten
A recent report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) estimates that the number of detainees is likely to exceed 215,000. 99 per cent of these have been detained by Syrian regime forces. by Leila Al-Shami June 14, 2017 This article was originally...
read moreThe Threat of Wider Wars in the Middle East and the Responsibilities of Socialists
The coming together of Qatar, Iran and Turkey against Saudi Arabia and its allies, showed that coalitions now forming to compete with each other are not strictly based on the Shi’a-Sunni divide. The alliances currently confronting each other are fighting over the...
read moreThe Other Iran’s Views on the May 2017 Presidential Election
At a time when the Trump administration’s bellicose language about Iran is raising serious concerns, it is important not to equate opposition to U.S. imperialism with support for Iran’s repressive regime and its own regional imperialist wars. There is an Other Iran...
read moreNew Peace Coalition in Los Angeles
In contrast to the authoritarian left, we oppose and organize against the machinations not only of U.S. imperialism and its subimperialist allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, but also those of Russian imperialism and of subimperialist powers like Iran. Thus, we...
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