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Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
Another Attack on Women’s Rights in Iraq
Article 57 Amendment: Another Attack on Women's Rights in Iraq by Huda Samir Despite the poverty, destitution, and loss of job opportunities that Iraqi society suffers from, Despite the public demands to end sectarianism and corruption in government institutions,...
Strengthening of normalization process of Israel after agreement with the UAE
On 13 August the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel entered into a US-sponsored peace accord that further deepens the process of normalization of the colonial and racist apartheid state. An American-Israeli delegation, led by President Trump’s son-in-law and White...
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...
Video of Panel on Women in Prisons: U.S. & Iran
On Saturday, September 26, the Zanan Group of Northern California organized a panel discussion of former women prisoners from the US and Iran. Below are the video link and bios of the speakers. The Prison journal, Captured Words, Free Thoughts has also...
The Me Too Movement in Iran: What Is New About It? What Can It Learn From Abolitionist Feminism in U.S.?
For the past month, an unprecedented development has started to take place in Iran. Thousands of women and some men have started to speak publicly on social media about their experiences of sexual harassment, abuse, assault and rape. by Frieda Afary Originally...
Macron on an imperial visit to Lebanon & Iraq
Emmanuel Macron has paid another visit to Lebanon, and also to Iraq to seek to consolidate the role of the French imperialist power in the region. At the end of his latest visit to Beirut, the second in the space of a month after the double explosion of 4 August,...
Catastrophe in Lebanon, A CRIMINAL TRAGEDY ROOTED IN SECTARIANISM AND NEOLIBERALISM
On August 4, 2020, a new tragedy struck Lebanon. An explosion of unprecedented magnitude in the country’s history occurred in the port of Beirut and left more than 180 dead (Lebanese, Syrians and other nationalities), more than 6,500 injured and 300,000 homeless....
For Iraqi Women, Silence was Never an Option
The participation of women in the 2019 and 2020 protests were very apparent and inspiring for many women around the world, though their participation came with a price. Women have lost their lives because of systematic killing and assassinations. Reham Yaqoub is the...
The Greek – Turkey Imperialist Conflict in East Mediterranean
Despite the nationalist hysteria that the state propaganda media and the mass media cultivate in both countries, the agony of the popular masses is evident, both in Greece and in Turkey, about the possibility of a war. By Pantelis Afthinos and Κostas Kousiantas The...
