Standing tall and fighting back: Palestinians tell their own story
Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have rarely narrated...
Yarmouk: a late obituary for the capital of the Palestinian diaspora
Palestinian blogger, Budour Hassan, writes about the story of the Palestinian refugee camp besieged, destroyed, and emptied it of its people before being looted by Syrian regime soldiers. Budour Hassan June 22, 2018 Source: Open Democracy...
The Syrian Revolution and the Emancipation of Palestinians and Kurds: Interview with Joseph Daher
Below, we reprint an interview which the Greek socialist collective Ela Liberta conducted with Joseph Daher, Swiss-Syrian socialist academic and activist. May 8, 2018 A) Ela Liberta: A large part of the Left chose not to support the Syrian revolution, or even stood by...
Oppose the Continuous and Deadly Repression of Palestinians in Gaza
These are not "confrontations" or "clashes" as the mainstream media and Western governments are saying. We are dealing with the deliberate crimes of an occupying, colonial and racist force against unarmed protesters. April 26, 2018 To date, there have been four mass...
The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
We must support the right of self-determination for 28 to 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. We need to denounce these authoritarian regimes, as well as international and regional measures and pressures that prevent Kurdish populations from...
Iraq Kurdish Independence Faces Threats from Outside and Contradictions from Within
Support for the right of self-determination of the Kurdish people and opposition to the Barzani clan is a necessity for combining democratic and social rights in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. We should bring our support to the most revolutionary and democratic...
Referendum on Kurdish independence in Northern Iraq: Between hope and contradictions
Through this referendum, the KDP and PUK, intend to strengthen their political and economic power and above all to try to divert popular anger against their neoliberal, clientelist and corrupt management of affairs. . .We must nevertheless support the possibility for...
Syrian Kurds Protest in Solidarity with Aleppo
The Kurdish protesters in Erbil and Qamishli specifically condemned the Syrian Army’s callous disregard for civilian lives in Aleppo city...“Civilians in that war-ravaged city have suffered the most under attacks by regime troops and their allies, like Russia, Iran...
A Palestinian Response to Troubling Discourse on Syria
It is our position that any discussion of Syria that neglects the central role of Bashar Al-Assad and his regime in the destruction of Syria, directly contradicts the principles of solidarity by which we abide. We have reflected on our own tendency to heroize those...