A conversation between Hong Kong and Lebanese protesters
Article was published on: https://lausan.hk/2020/revolution-everywhere-conversation-between-hong-kong-and-lebanon/ The momentum for liberation is never lost; it simply picks up at different speeds in different places, at different times. By Joey Ayoub and Lausan...
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...
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)....
Campaign for a global abolitionist movement in the time of Covid
This article was first published on Daraja Press I speak with two activist members of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists about organising in the time of Covid Frieda Afary is a librarian, translator, producer of Iranian Progressives in...
07. Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta
This article was first published the fire these times This is a conversation with Sabrîna Azad. She’s a writer who published a moving piece for Mangal Media entitled ‘From Halabja to Ghouta‘ in which she looked at how deniers of Assad’s war crimes in Syria were...
Iraq’s Tahrir: Finishing What We Started
This article was first published on the website Rampant - Revolutionary politics - Chicago Style An Iraqi revolutionary talks about the current uprising in Iraq, its political history, and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since October of 2019 a massive...
