Category: War and peace

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.

In this interview, conducted amidst a rapidly changing situation in Syria, Tempest asks Swiss Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Assad’s rule, the prospects for progressive forces,

Syrians are under no illusions; whatever comes after Assad will be a mess. But for millions of Syrians nothing can be worse than this genocidal fascist regime, writes Leila al-Shami

Historical background to this fourth Israeli invasion of Lebanon

Resolution adopted by the Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) conference, which took place in Kyiv, October 5-6, 2024.

Is the shock about this film that a civil war could happen in the modern US, the “exceptional” USA? Time to wake up, America. The film is not about a civil war, per se, as much as it is about war photographers

The party fell into the trap set for it by Israel, through its insistence on continuing to exchange fire with it “until a ceasefire in Gaza”, while it became clear that the weight of the battle was shifting from the wracked Strip to Lebanon.

Bill Keach reviews Mark Steven’s book “Class War: A Literary History”, a wide-ranging account of uprisings of oppressed classes.

Justin Akers Chacón discusses how the crises of global capitalism and imperialism are causing mass displacement of immigrants, who are targeted by fascist and bourgeois political forces.

John Feffer speaks for the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the Russian invasion, as a struggle of an oppressed people against imperialism.