The Alliance of
Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan
We the Alliance of Middle East Socialists support the ongoing uprising which erupted across Sudan starting December 19th, 2018. The protests were set off by the lifting of subsidies on bread, wheat, and electricity as well as spiking inflation. The United Nations...
Iranian Labor Leader Speaks of His Torture & Challenges Iran’s “Intelligence” Minister
Esmail Bakshi, leader of the Sugar Cane Worker's Independent Union in Ahvaz, speaks of the torture to which he was subjected after his arrest and calls on Iran's minister of intelligence to answer him in a live television debate. Esmaeil Bakhshi, Iran’s prominent...
Los Angeles Screening & Discussion of Play About the Israeli Occupation
"It's What We Do" is a recorded play that dramatizes Israeli soldiers' testimonies, exposing their day-to-day interactions with Palestinian. It takes you behind the headlines to see what the Israeli occupation looks like on a daily basis, how if affects the soldiers...
Alliance Statement on Threat of Turkish Planned Military Invasion Against Northern Syria: Internationalist Solidarity Needed
Donald Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw 2000 U.S. troops from Syria is a green light to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to decimate the Kurds in what remains of Rojava in northern Syria. Earlier this year, Turkey invaded the Afrin area with the assistance of Syrian...
An idea called Daraya
Five years on from the kidnapping of the ‘Douma 4’ activists, Joey Ayoub pays homage to another Damascus suburb symbolic of Syria’s peaceful, democratic revolution. By the time Huda was arrested by regime soldiers in 2013, the siege of Daraya, a suburb of Damascus,...
Open Letter to Code Pink
The following is an open letter to the US peace group, Code Pink, concerning its planned trip to Iran. It was issued by U.S. labor activists, John Reimann and Cheryl Zuur, and co-signed by various U.S. and international labor and solidarity activists and...
In memoriam: Raed Fares and Hammud Junayd, giants of Syrian civil society
Remembering the larger-than-life personalities and legacies of Raed Fares and Hammud Junayd, two iconic Syrian democracy activists assassinated Friday. In Aleppo in early 2012, at a discussion between opposition activists, the banners used in demonstrations in a small...
Repudiating the Stalinist Legacy
Editors' note: Below, we reprint part I of a three-part series by Javier Sethness, libertarian socialist, activist and author. The links to parts two and three of this series can be found at the end of this article. This series was originally published by Notes...
New Wave of Strikes / Protests in Iran Need Solidarity from International Socialists and Progressives
During the past two weeks, the ongoing wave of protests and strikes in Iran have gained a new intensity. On the one hand, the impact of the second and more cruel wave of the U.S. Trump administration’s sanctions on Iran is truly breaking the backs of the...
