Category: War and peace
Farooq Sulehria reviews the new edited volume Propaganda, Communication and Empire, a critical analysis of media representation of western intervention in Afghanistan.
David Finkel criticizes Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies’ book on the war in Ukraine, which minimizes the voices of left-wing Ukrainians and antiwar Russian dissidents, and obscures Putin’s annexationism as the cause of the war.
Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the
Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.
Husam Mahjoub criticizes international complicity in the ineffective, elite-led peace processes in Sudan, and calls for justice rooted in accountability for perpetrators and material conditions for human dignity.
Then, in October 2023, the war in Gaza began. Her dreams slipped away, not only the dream of buying that piece of land, but even the simple dream of living in peace, free from the constant fear of losing the people she loved.
Rather than endorsing one or the other elite faction, we must stand for the defense of Ukraine and of its democratic and social values.
The Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy held this webinar on June 21, 2026 with Iranian American, Cuban, Ukrainian American socialist feminist speakers. It was moderated by MaryLinda Moss of the NELA Alliance for
Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.
The wars against Iran are the product of American imperialism; Israel and global Zionism, and the clerical/military/economic oligarchy of the Islamic Republic.
The U.S. government spent more money attacking Iran in the first two weeks than it did on military aid to Ukraine over four years.
We, a group of Baluch abroad, while opposing this reactionary war and emphasizing the necessity of overthrowing the Islamic Republic, declare our solidarity with Iran’s progressive forces.
In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people specifically, has been limited.
From our perspective of “No to war and no to the Islamic Republic,” this conflict is an absolute evil. It brings neither democracy nor security and well-being for the people.
DSA should enter into a coalition with the groups like Indivisible that have organized the No Kings protests, most of whom are liberal democrats and independents, and many of whom are progressive activists, while some are democratic socialists.
Why progressive Iranian exiles who oppose the Islamic Republic nevertheless reject the U.S._Israeli war.
The Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy is part of the broader network of democracy and human rights activists in the
Iranians face attacks from both US imperialism/Israel and a brutally oppressive regime amid their struggle for democracy and social justice
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