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Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
Nine years of struggle for democracy in Syria
This article was first published on the Websites of Socialist Resistance and International Viewpoint SOCIALIST RESISTANCE – The movement for democracy which erupted in 2011 in Syria, alongside others in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), gave hope that the...
Free Mays Abou Ghosh and Khalida Jarrar from Israel’s prisons !
We publish the the following article as part of an ongoing series calling attention to the state of political prisoners and the importance of the MeToo movement in the MENA region. By Lara al-Kateb The "banana" position is a method used in interrogation which involves...
Report on Socialist Feminist Dialogue Between Iranian, Iraqi, Palestinian-Lebanese, Chilean women
The speakers identified a universal challenge in their movements: too often gender justice is viewed as a secondary struggle, less important than economic or political fights. A key task for socialist feminists is to meld economic, political, and social issues....
Al-Mounadil/ah Newspaper threatened with suspension, and its website with closure: No to stifling the freedom of expression!
"The following statement, published on 30 January 2020, explains the Moroccan judiciary’s threat to close the revolutionary socialist newspaper and website, al-Mounadil-a (‘the Militant’). As the al-Mounadil-a editorial board suggests below, such threats are parts of...
The ‘Caesar Bill’: A step towards accountability in Syria, or a worsening economic crisis
Article first published on the website Syria untold: https://syriauntold.com/2020/01/27/the-caesar-bill-a-step-towards-accountability-in-syria-or-a-worsening-economic-crisis/ The Caesar Bill has become the subject of debate among progressive and democratic Syrian...
Global Protests Say “No War With Iran.” Can They Inspire a New Antiwar Movement?
BY Emma Wilde Botta & Frieda Afary, PUBLISHED : January 25, 2020 Originally published on Truthout: https://truthout.org/articles/global-protests-say-no-war-with-iran-can-they-inspire-a-new-antiwar-movement/ Today, people around the world are taking to the streets...
Western “Anti-Imperialists” Silence Middle Eastern and North African Voices
By Daliah Lina January 26, 2020 “You stand with the terrorist troops. You are a jihadist.” This just covers a part of the public smearing I had to face the last couple of weeks since Trump’s airstrike on Qassem Soleimani. One who has been involved in political debates...
Livestream Socialist Feminist Dialogue Between Iranian, Iraqi, Palestinian-Lebanese, Chilean women
Sunday January 26, 2020 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Geneva Time Sponsored by Alliance of MENA Socialists. Socialist feminists from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Chile will discuss the unique features of the uprisings in each country, the role of women, the state of women’s...
Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism and International Socialist Solidarity Today: Panel Recording
Recording of panel at Howard Zinn Conference, December 6, 2019, San Francisco https://wearemany.org/a/0/0/imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-international-socialist-solidarity-today The U.S. is no longer an unrivaled empire dominating the world system. It has suffered...