The Alliance of
Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
The Syrian Revolution: A History from Below (12 Webinars,June 20-August 5, 2020)
This webinar will challenge the mainstream, orientalist, and manichean perspectives that have come to dominate narratives surrounding the events that have transpired in Syria since 2011. That includes a mainstream perspective that often ignores the revolutionary...
The Coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism: an interlocking phenomenon
Article initially published on the website Middle East 4 Change 14 May 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has unravelled the close structural links between the climate crisis and the global capitalist mode of production.[1] This is a scenario that the socialist left should...
Standing With Black Lives Matter Protests: Opposing Police Brutality, Militarism, and All Forms of State Violence
Scenes of multiracial protests and street battles against police brutality and state violence in Minneapolis and more than 140 U.S. cities reveal that there is something new emerging in the U.S.: A powerful movement against the police’s systematic killing of Black...
Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition Statement of Purpose
This coalition actively draws connections between national and international struggles and between political prisoners and social prisoners, who are mostly working-class victims of poverty, racism, marginalization and neglect. Our position regarding prison abolition...
Iranian feminist political prisoner’s open letter defends Kurdish women political prisoners
Golrokh Iraee’s letter from inside the Varamin-Qarchak prison; the pressures on #Zeynab Jalalian continue. Zeinab Jalalian is one of the longest serving political prisoner in Iran. After enduring years of incarceration and torture in several prisons and detention...
Palestinian Labor Unionists’ May Day Statement
On May Day, the Palestinian trade union movement salutes workers around the world, especially all essential workers putting their lives on the line during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We pay tribute to all the workers and workplace activists we have lost to this...
Statement on the German Government’s Resumption and Expansion of Political, Economic and Development Policy Cooperation in Sudan
This article was first published on the following link: https://www.docdroid.net/q5ueIcm/statement-by-sudanuprising-germany-25apr20-final-eng-pdf#page=13 Introduction and Summary SudanUprising Germany is an activist platform founded by Sudanese and Sudanese-German...
Covid19 and popular struggles of Syria
I speak with Yasser Munif. He is a Sociology Assistant Professor in the institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College where he teaches courses about social movements, the Arab uprisings, gender in the middle east, and the history of racism. He is the author of “The...
Uprisings in the time of COVID19: Algeria
We discuss the impact of the COVID19 epidemic on the Algerian uprisings with Hamza Hamouchene, a London-based Algerian scholar-activist, commentator, researcher, and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA)....
