The Alliance of
Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists – Founding Statement of Principles
November 24, 2017 We are an alliance of Middle Eastern socialists opposed to all the international and Middle Eastern regional imperialist powers and their wars, whether the U.S., Russia and China or Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey. We also oppose other...
U.S. Socialist Labor Activist Speaks on Solidarity with Syrian & Iranian Working Class
Editors’ Note: Below is an expanded version of a presentation which John Reimann, a socialist labor activist in the U.S. gave on November 4, 2017 in Los Angeles at a Left Coast Conference panel on solidarity with Syrian and Iranian progressives. Reimann is a retired...
Political Economy of Hezbollah: A Book Review
Hezbollah's role in the Lebanese government is being used as a pretext for Saudi Arabia and Israel --with U.S. backing-- to threaten Lebanon and Iran with war. For those socialists who oppose the actions of all these states and want to express a principled anti-war...
The Likely Winners in the Race to Rebuild Syria
Daher argues that two ulterior motives underlie the Syrian government’s approach to reconstruction: Consolidating political and economic power within a narrow circle of Syrian elites connected to the ruling Assad family and quelling dissent in former opposition areas....
Statement From Detainees in Homs Central Prison
More than 500 political prisoners in Homs Central Prison, detained by the Syrian regime for participating in the Syrian revolution, have issued a statement announcing that they have launched a hunger strike. There are currently over 100,000 political prisoners in...
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...
Why White Nationalists Love Bashar al-Assad
There’s a simple explanation for how the American far-right became curiously infatuated with the Arab totalitarian leader: Their hearts were won over by the Assad family’s years-old propaganda campaign at home in Syria. Assad’s authoritarianism uses the same buzzwords...
Join the Solidarity with Iranian Political Prisoners & Oppose Imperialist War Threats Against Iran
Below are short biographies of three Iranian political prisoners who strongly oppose any imperialist intervention in Iran as well as internal state repression and any regional imperialist intervention by Iran or other Middle Eastern states. Each of these prisoners...
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...
