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LOS ANGELES PANEL ON MASS INCARCERATION & THE GLOBAL RISE OF RACIST AUTHORITARIAN CAPITALISM
The Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution & Social Justice invites you to a panel discussion: MASS INCARCERATION & THE GLOBAL RISE OF RACIST AUTHORITARIAN CAPITALISM What is the Prison-Industrial Complex in the U.S. and how does it affect African...
Barriers to Internationalism: Views of a Syrian Youth
Freedom cannot be treated as a commodity that is the right of some people and not others. Oppression is international. For struggles against it to be successful, they too have to be international and relate to each other. Internationalism and the Question of...
Assad’s White Supremacist Supporters
According to the Washington Post, "Syria's Assad has become an icon of the far right in America."(August 13). James Alex Fields Jr., the man who rammed his car into anti-racist counter-protesters at the white supremacists' rally in Charlottesville, VA on August 12, ...
Solidarity with the Oppressed, Not the Oppressors: Why We Should Support Syrian Revolutionaries
Comments presented by Zach Medeiros at the July 14, 2017 public meeting to launch the Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice. How can we support revolutionary Syrians and the Syrian people as a whole? This is not an easy question to answer....
How Did We Go from the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement to the Destruction of the Syrian Revolution and the Global Rise of Racist Authoritarianism?
Comments presented by Frieda Afary at the July 14, 2017 public meeting to launch the Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice. In 2011, the world was abuzz with the spirit of the Arab Spring, a revolutionary movement for social justice,...
Reflections of a Syrian Refugee from Aleppo
What has opened the eyes of many Syrian refugees in foreign countries is the global oppression. I am happy that we started looking at things in the bigger picture. We came to the conclusion that what happened in Syria is a result of something bigger and rotten that...
Crisis Between the Reactionary Monarchies of the Gulf
In this political crisis between reactionary states, we must of course denounce the political opportunism and the lies of Saudi Arabia and its allies in their campaigns of isolation and pressure against Qatar. These states are dictatorships which repress any form of...
The Particular Features of the Islamic Republic’s Capitalism and the Need for a Humanist Alternative to Capitalism/Militarism
There is no doubt that there are divisions within the Iranian ruling class concerning economic and political approaches. There is no doubt that Iran’s capitalism is inefficient. There is no doubt that the IRGC acts like a Mafia band. However, currently, it seems...
Creating a Public Library in Daraa Despite Assad Regime Bombs
“The main goals of the library are to fight the regime with education … and serve college students in opposition-controlled areas,” Loai Abu Abdou, a 34-year-old math teacher and one of the founders of Ajyal (Generations), told Syria Deeply. The article below is being...