Achcar responds to Dale on arms to Ukraine and NATO.
Category: War and peace
Against Half-Solidarity and False Pacifism – Statement of the Russian Socialist Movement on May Day
May Day is not only International Workers’ Day but also a day of solidarity with the oppressed peoples and civil disobedience against war.
Book Review Essay: Anti-Authoritarian Internationalism, Then and Now
The consensus from the authors reviewed here is that the anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian causes requires profound socio-economic and political changes at all levels of global society.
Why African Americans Should Support Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is about national self-determination—and we need to support the resistance in Ukraine because it is the right thing to do in the face of injustice.
What’s Wrong with Ukraine’s Wartime Diplomacy in the Global South
In the month of the first anniversary of Russia’s illegal and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky held a speech at the European Parliament, where he declared Russia to be “the biggest anti-European force of the modern world”[1]. By . . .
Disappeared for 10 Years in Syria
Everyone you see in the photo above was kidnapped by Assad forces on March 9-11 in 2013. Exactly 10 years ago. The mother depicted, Rania Alabbasi, was a dentist and Syria’s most famous chess champion. In addition to her . . .
Voices of the Ukrainian Resistance
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a highly commendable work that gives a needed platform to Ukrainian socialists and trade unionists.
Our Slogan Is “War Against War”
Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists”
Ukraine: Those who choose not to see, those who choose not to hear, those who choose to forget
Those who speak of “peace” by not supporting the legitimate right of Ukrainian peoples to self-determination and to live, those who break with support for national liberation struggles are mistaken and contribute to undermining the rights of all citizens, in Ukraine and around the world.
The East Is Not Red
When one surveys the history of American interventionism in other countries—from Brazil to Guatemala, from Cuba to Chile, from Mossadegh’s Iran to Grenada and Nicaragua—and when we contemplate . . .
Journalism with movements in the South
It is ironic that those who most ardently declare their anti-imperialism are the same who believe there’s no subjectivity except U.S. subjectivity: no protest against states they deem anti-imperialist is possible without Washington’s approval, money, or agents spurring it on.
An Ambiguous Paradise Built in Hell
Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice (London: Pluto Press, 2022)
On November 20th, Turkey launched Operation Claw-Sword, a large-scale campaign of drone attacks killing civilians and militants in the predominantly Kurdish regions of Syria and Iraq.1 Then, in . . .
Letter from an American to Russian Soldiers as Christmas Approaches
Putin could end this war today if he wanted. So could you and your comrades in arms if you refuse to fight or simply begin to go home.
The Ukrainian Left’s View on the Prospects of Peace Negotiations
It is a precious recognition that negotiations in the understanding of the current Russian government can only take place as a continuation of accumulating multi-layered lies, which appears to be the foundation of the public communication strategy of the Putin regime.
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