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...
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...
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...
