from Richard Mellor Although it may seem hopeless, I will not, and neither will this blog, stop sharing the horrific images and stories about the genocide that Zionism is committing in Palestine. The Israeli's are committing this horror with full support of the US and most of the western nations and media. The US provides the weapons, the money and the diplomatic cover. Netanyahu, a … [Read more...]
Gaza: “More than a human being can bear”
By Yorgos Mitralias The report by the UN Independent Commission* on Israel's sexual and reproductive crimes against Palestinians confirms what we already knew: the Zionist state systematically and massively uses sexual violence against Palestinian women, men, girls and boys! But the report also tells us something else: these sexual and reproductive crimes committed by Israel are an … [Read more...]
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST – A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. The fragile ceasefire reached in January between Israel and Hamas is now at breaking point. In Gaza, where tens of thousands are known to have been killed and countless more buried under the rubble, Israel has cut off all food, electricity, water and medical supplies. It has intensified its repression in the West Bank, fought with Hezbollah … [Read more...]
SYRIA: for Arab unity and socialism
by Finn Geaney In an illustration of the global instability which characterises the current period in world politics, the government of Syria collapsed on December 8th 2023 after just eleven days of fighting. The ruling regime had been in power for over fifty years, first under Hafez al-Assad and then, over the last twenty-five years, under his son Bashar. The Assad dynasty was supported by … [Read more...]
THE MIDDLE EAST: SEEKING A WORKING CLASS SOLUTION
A WIN Discussion February 2025. See the meeting HERE. The entire Middle East is in flames. To take just a few illustrations of the region’s instability… · The Assad government in Syria – a dynasty which had been in power for six decades – collapsed on December 8th after just eleven days of fighting. · Casualties of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza … [Read more...]
The truce between Israel and Hamas has begun
By ISL Coordination, Asian Marxist Review, Courtesy International Socialist League Israel finally reached an agreement with Hamas on the first ceasefire since it launched its genocidal offensive in Gaza, and an exchange of prisoners has begun. The Palestinian people celebrated in the streets the end of the bombings and an agreement that they consider a victory of their heroic resistance. … [Read more...]
SYRIA: THE DOWNFALL OF A DICTATOR
A WIN discussion, January 2025. Follow it HERE. Less than a month ago, Syria's bloodthirsty dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the country for Moscow. He and his father Hafez al-Assad had ruled it for over half a century, but Bashar was in such a hurry he didn't leave a word of explanation, written or spoken. Assad's brutal regime had survived thirteen years of civil war, but within days its army had … [Read more...]
THE MIDDLE EAST IN TURMOIL
A WIN discussion January 2025. See the recording HERE. In a world already facing its most unstable prospects for eighty years, its most volatile region of all is now rocked by new convulsions: Israel’s war of outright genocide in Gaza, intensified repression on the West Bank, military devastation in Lebanon and the weakening of Hezbollah, a tottering regime in Iran, the collapse of the bloody … [Read more...]
The war on the people of Gaza and Israel’s ‘disintegration’
by John Pickard republished from Left Horizons website Notwithstanding the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, in itself a momentous event, it is Israel, more than any other Middle East state, which faces unprecedented historical challenges and ultimately a transformation. Israel’s military has mercilessly battered the Gaza Strip; its air force has reduced Hezbollah in Lebanon to a … [Read more...]
The Syrian people have freed themselves from the Assad regime, but its campist supporters pretend to ignore it…
by Yorgos Mitralias Thousands and thousands of Syrians of all ages dancing and embracing, weeping and singing, waving the country's new flag and celebrating the end of tyranny, in the center of Syrian cities but also in Paris, Istanbul and Moscow, in Berlin or Stockholm, everywhere in the world where the almost 7 million Syrians driven from their country since 2011 have taken refuge. And … [Read more...]