Category: War and peace

An appalling decision by federal judge Trevor McFadden was filed on August 4. The idea that Jews are a “race” makes one’s skin crawl.

The underlying logic and key characteristics of the 12-day Israel-Iran war.

But here it is, August again. I will turn 81 in a few days and so will my age-mate the atomic bomb. You and I will continue, as we know, to live in the shadow of the bomb until we create a movement to rid ourselves of it.

In this 1916 essay, Ukrainian Marxist Lev Yurkevych develops a vision for the liberation of Ukraine, against multiple imperialist powers.

Christopher Ford introduces the political thoughts and activities of Lev Yurkevych, a prominent Ukrainian Marxist in the early 20th century.

The bombs fell in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City around 2 a.m. on July 14, killing more than two dozen people. The IDF hasn’t answered why it bombed the Arafat home or barred rescue workers.

Regardless of the backgrounds and reasons behind Israel and the United States’ military aggression against Iran, it is clear that this invasion has imposed a new “state of war” on the Middle East. The fragile ceasefire established after the “12-day war” cannot conceal the gravity and severity of this imposed situation.

Iranian feminists will speak about how U.S. activists can take a principled stand against the violations of human rights by all the powers involved and defend progressive, life-affirming forces inside Iran, the Middle East region, and the U.S.

On Zoom, Tues. June 24 at 7 pm Eastern.
Speakers: Yassamine Mather, Michael Karadjis, and Evan Siegel.

Opposing Netanyahu, Trump, and Khamenei

Children are in danger around the world — in Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere. On International Children’s day, the Ukraine Solidarity Network calls for their protection.

We need to say “No” to all unjust wars everywhere

How Iran’s “heroic flexibility” towards its foreign enemy is accompanied by an intensified “iron fist” against the internal enemy

While the situation in Sudan does not get even a tenth of the global media attention as the ongoing Zionist genocidal war in Gaza, the scale of the human catastrophe there is equally horrific.

Does the NY Times story discredit Ukrainian resistance?

More terror in Gaza, an upsurge of repression in the United States

In his latest ultimatum to Hamas President Trump wrote, “Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!”  Doesn’t he know that that his bosom allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, keep bodies as bargaining chips and for other reasons?  Isn’t this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

The Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. (USN) opposes any attempt to impose a settlement that is not acceptable to the Ukrainian people.

We offer our support and full solidarity to Prof. Joseph Daher who is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism.

In an interview, Gilbert Achcar analyzes geopolitical transformations across the Middle East over the past year, and prospects for emergence of a progressive movement.

Crucial to a just peace is an alternative vision of the ultimate goal in Palestine: From the river to the sea, freedom and democracy.