Russia and the Left
What explains the enthusiasm in certain quarters of the left for Vladimir Putin and Russia? Why do some cheer on Russian bombing in Syria, dismissing out of hand the evidence from Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch1 that they...
Statement by Iranian Activists Opposed to Iran’s Intervention in Syria
January 1, 2017 We the undersigned, are ashamed of all the pain and suffering brought upon the innocent people of Syria. For the past few years, all the expansionist states of the world from the East and the West have descended upon the Syrian people. In the face of...
Popular Protests Follow Partial Ceasefire in Syria
The latest protests reveal that as soon as there is even a partial cessation of bombing by the regime and its allies, what remains of the Syrian revolution tries to reemerge. December 31, 2016 Joseph Daher and Frieda Afary Two weeks after the fall of Eastern Aleppo...
The Fall of Eastern Aleppo & Its Consequences
The fall of Aleppo may be the final nail in the coffin for Syria’s orphaned revolution. An Assadist victory means the end of Aleppo’s civil democratic experiment, once a beacon of hope. It means the possible arrest of hundreds more civil society activists, medical and...
List of Progressive & Democratic Syrian Opposition Groups, Individuals, Websites
Reach out and contact these groups, individuals and websites to help Syrians who are still fighting for justice and human rights. This is a long list. Please scroll down to the end and past the graphics. Joseph Daher December 20, 2016 Al-Jumhurriya website, Yassin...
British-Syrian Author/Activist Leila Al-Shami in Dialogue with Russian Anti-War Activists
Leila al-Shami, co-author of Burning Country, a writer who has worked with human rights movements in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, gave this interview to Ilya Matveev and Gabriel Levy on 29 November for OpenLeft (before the fall of Aleppo to the government...
Iranian University Student Questions Iran’s Role in Syria Genocide
History has judged us guilty because we have remained silent about the horrible genocide in Syria... Are we really standing on the right side in Syria? 500,000 have been killed, generations have been burned, and Syria has been destroyed. Where do we stand in this...
Assad Regime’s Imperialist Allies Respond to Trump’s Election by Escalating Military Offensive
Joseph Daher's interview with Real News Network December 2, 2016 Highlights: In Syria, Eastern Aleppo had been a symbol of the democratic alternative. The Islamic State had been kicked out in the beginning of 2014 following an uprising of the democratic forces, both...
The Tragedy of the Syrian Revolution and the Responsibilities of Socialists
The inaction of the majority of the global Left in face of the Syrian regime/Russia/Iran perpetrated massacre in Aleppo is the sign of a very deep problem. In this article, I will attempt to explore the roots of this problem in order to draw out some lessons about...