Syrian War in year 7: The age of cyber warfare
We find ourselves caught between the crossfire of two battles; one that is annihilating forms of life in Syria, the other is the battle of ideas conflicting in cyber spheres. In recent years, the virtual world has become a defining space to exercise free thought and...
read more“Our Destinies are Linked”: Joseph Daher on the Syrian Revolution
As the Syrian Revolution entered its eighth year this March, Dan Fischer and S. Majasent sent some questions to the Syrian-Swiss anti-capitalist activist and academic Joseph Daher. Daher founded the website Syria Freedom Forever and authored Hezbollah: The Political...
read moreFree Leila Hosseinzadeh and Other Iranian Students Who Are on Trial for Demanding Democratic Rights
It was the leftist students at Tehran University who stood in solidarity with the nationwide protests and chanted “Reformist or principalist, this story has come to an end!”, a powerful slogan that challenged party-centric establishment politics and immediately became...
read moreVictory of Assad Regime in Ghouta Is Major Defeat for Those Fighting Racism and Capitalist Authoritarianism Globally
Those who oppose both the Assad regime and the Jihadists and all the imperialist powers, need to focus on a glaring fact: Support for Assad and Putin has become a rallying cry for Western white supremacist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic organizations and...
read moreThe Experience of Local Councils in the Syrian Revolution: A Critical Retrospective View
The original idea behind the councils became meaningless. Under the hegemony of weapons and conditional funding, the space for council work closed up. Thus, the possibility of building an alternative, democratic authority from below, which could lead the revolution...
read moreIndian Socialist Discusses Iran’s Present & Past Struggles
Rohini Hensman analyzes the recent uprising by working-class Iran in the context of a battle for democracy which has spanned longer than a century. Rohini Hensman is a writer and independent scholar whose forthcoming book, Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-Revolution,...
read moreInterview with a Turkish Socialist
The Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists strongly opposes Turkey's latest land and air attacks on Afrin and Turkey's ongoing war on the Kurdish population of Northern Syria and Turkey. Below, we print an interview with a Turkish socialist, Foti Benlisoy, which...
read moreAcquittal of Two Egyptian Political Prisoners
The Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists salutes the acquittal of Egyptian feminist lawyer Mahienour el-Massry and trade unionist Moatasem Medhat whose names were included in our international campaign in solidarity with Middle Eastern political prisonners. They...
read moreIranian Socialists Take Over Podium at Rosa Luxemburg Conference to Demand Support for Iran Mass Protests
On Saturday January 13, a group of Iranian Socialists named "Grapes of Wrath", briefly took over the podium at the International Rosa Luxemburg conference in Berlin to read a statement and demand that leftist parties in Germany take an official stand in defense of...
read moreThe new resistance in Iran
Ashley Smith of the International Socialist Organization interviews Frieda Afary source: https://socialistworker.org/2018/01/10/the-new-resistance-in-iran The new resistance in Iran January 10, 2018 Iranian workers and the poor, mostly teens and unemployed young...
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