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...]
Syria: One bloody dictator less and an uncertain future
By International Socialist League Asian Marxist Review In a Middle East already severely devastated by the Palestinian genocide and the Zionist State of Israel’s attack on Lebanon, Bashar al-Assad’s draconian dictatorship fell in Syria a few days ago and was replaced in power by an Islamist sector in command of a heterogeneous rebel coalition. A new era full of uncertainties has begun in … [Read more...]
Facts for Working People Blog – Gaza
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, HEO/GED retired, USA. GAZA: WHEN A GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING SILENCE IS COMPLICITY The savagery that we see in the video, occurred, not in opposition to US policy and the Biden/Harris Administration, but with its full cooperation. If you are silent on this in your everyday life then you too are complicit, not at the same level for sure, but you are not … [Read more...]
Israel’s War on Palestine
A WIN discussion, November 2024. LISTEN TO THE DISCUSSION HERE Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the entire population of Gaza has outraged workers throughout the world. Now the war has spread to the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond, and threatens an all-out regional conflagration throughout the Middle East. How will this horrific war end? What will be its long-term repercussions? Will it … [Read more...]
Ilan Pappe – Israel is disintegrating
from Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired From 'Facts for Working People' Ilan Pappe talks of what the future holds for Israel as the US colonial proxy disintegrates under intense pressure from the Palestinian resistance and the worldwide condemnation of its genocidal war. The Zionist Apartheid regime has already lost the war as it is in the process of bombing four countries at the … [Read more...]
Netanyahu: a pure-blooded fascist by origin, training and mentors…
by Yorgos Mitralias Why has Bibi Netanyahu become the darling and idol of racist, neo-fascist and neo-Nazi right-wing scum in Europe and around the world? The answer is not difficult: these scum recognize themselves in him because they consider, quite rightly, that Bibi Netanyahu is flesh of their flesh. And not just because of his warlike and other “exploits”, which have made Netanyahu's … [Read more...]