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As of March 2021, this website will no longer have new posts. For future posts, go to the facebook page of the Alliance of MENA Socialists. https://www.facebook.com/Alliance-of-MENA-Socialists-2196931800604746 این تارنما تبدیل به آرشیو شده لطفا به صفحه ی فیس بوک اتحاد...
Defend Iranian Woman Labor Leader Parvin Mohammadi
Parvin Mohammadi needs support from labor activists and feminist activists around the world. During all these years of struggle, she has never separated the labor struggle from women’s struggles for their rights. Frieda Afary January 20, 2021 Source: New Politics On...
The Covid Lockdown in India: a Predictable Catastrophe for Informal Labour
The first case of Covid-19 in India was detected in Kerala on 30 January 2020, with two more on 2 and 3 February. All three were students who had returned from Wuhan. By then it was common knowledge that the virus was spreading around the world. The World Health...
Transformative justice & anti-carceral politics: Webinar on June 28, 2020
Transformative Justice seeks to build a anti-carceral politics while engaging in harm/violence reduction. This panel will unpack different understandings of abolitionism generated from an internationalist & anti-capitalist politics. The speakers will explore the...
The Syrian Revolution: A History from Below (12 Webinars,June 20-August 5, 2020)
This webinar will challenge the mainstream, orientalist, and manichean perspectives that have come to dominate narratives surrounding the events that have transpired in Syria since 2011. That includes a mainstream perspective that often ignores the revolutionary...
Palestinian Labor Unionists’ May Day Statement
On May Day, the Palestinian trade union movement salutes workers around the world, especially all essential workers putting their lives on the line during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We pay tribute to all the workers and workplace activists we have lost to this...
What is New About State Capitalism in the 21st Century?
For much of the left, since the 1980s, neoliberalism has been an all-encompassing term to identify the character of contemporary capitalism ... Since the 2008 economic crisis however, some leftist as well as liberal analysts have argued that this concept is not...
Public-Private Partnerships as a tool for privatization and reinforcement of clientelist networks
Syria's reconstruction can often seem like a distant prospect. Here, Joseph Daher assesses how the Syrian government is doubling-down on its pre-war neoliberal policies in the hope of drivin forward the country's reconstruction and economic renewal. But what will...
Letter from the Free Union of Iranian Workers to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Dear General Secretary Burrow, all of these acts of repression against Iranian workers are committed because the Iranian government considers any union activity by workers, teachers and all wage earners to be a security threat. It uses false security accusations to...