The Alliance of
Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
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...
Syria’s Unfinished Revolution: Review of Joseph Daher’s Syria After the Uprising
Joseph Daher’s new book, Syria After the Uprisings, is perhaps the most detailed and comprehensive explanation of the nature of the Syrian state, the causes and character of the revolution, and the reasons for its defeat and, in the words of the book’s subtitle, the...
Iran Popular Protests Against Regime Intensify in Response to Iran Downing of Passenger Plane
The eloquent statements and slogans voiced by the latest wave of mass protests in Iran seem to indicate that the uprising has entered a new stage. The efforts of the regime to derail the protests after the U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani and to give the...
Oppose U.S. and Iran War by Showing Solidarity with Uprisings in the MENA Region
The most worrisome aspect of these developments is that they might lead to catastrophic consequences and full-scale war. That would in turn overshadow the wave of uprisings that have broken out in the Middle East and North Africa region in 2019, from Sudan and...
Mass Upsurge Against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act
The Citizenship Amendment Act In combination with the nationwide National Register of Citizens has been compared, by opposition parties and others, to the infamous Nuremberg Race Laws that disenfranchised and rendered stateless German Jews, reminding people that RSS...
Why the Latest Uprising in Iran Matters?
Emma Wilde Botta of Jacobin interviews Frieda Afary from the Alliance of MENA Socialists: "This appeal for help and support is not just for the sake of the Iranians. It is for the sake of defending similar struggles against capitalist exploitation, racism, sexism,...
Petition: Where Is Iranian Socialist-Humanist Intellectual, Yashar Darolshafa?
Darolshafa is a unique type of humanist intellectual activist who has broken with the dogmatism, nationalism and sexism of many members of previous generations of Iranian socialists. His contribution to emancipatory thought and struggle at this critical moment in...
Call for Solidarity with Uprisings in the Middle East & North Africa
Will the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa succeed in moving the region in a progressive and revolutionary direction, or will authoritarian regimes simply change face, survive and engage in endless wars? Which scenario will prevail? Much depends on what...