Against the arbitrary decision of the UNIL rectorate
By: TempestFebruary 21, 2025
We offer our support and full solidarity to Prof. Joseph Daher who is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism.
Saeed Rahnema analyzes the fall of Assad from a long-term historical perspective, and warns the threats posed by religious fundamentalism and the emboldened Turkish regime.
Samuel Farber analyzes the situations and practices of Zionism in the context of Jewish politics, in the early 20th century and interwar Poland.
Hank Kennedy reviews Wilson and Keko’s Freedom Shall Prevail, a comic book on the life of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish freedom struggle.
Syrian poet Mohja Kahf celebrates the human rights activist Razan Zaitouneh, and calls for a future Syria based on her vision.
In an interview, Leila al-Shami analyzes opportunities and obstacles for left, labour and feminist organizing in post-Assad Syria, as well as damages caused by the global campist left.
In an interview, Gilbert Achcar analyzes geopolitical transformations across the Middle East over the past year, and prospects for emergence of a progressive movement.
The Syrian people never gave up in the years since 2011, whether inside the country or in exile, and continue on today amid myriad obstacles
Crucial to a just peace is an alternative vision of the ultimate goal in Palestine: From the river to the sea, freedom and democracy.
Gilbert Achcar explains the sudden collapse of the Syrian regime
China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.
An interview with Joseph Daher
By: Joseph DaherDecember 9, 2024
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,
Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regime
By: Michael KaradjisDecember 9, 2024
An analysis of the different forces involved in recent Syrian developments.
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
Global condemnation of the Israeli parliament’s decision to pass two laws banning the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees has cemented Israel’s isolation on the global stage.
Historical background to this fourth Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ignited violence in Amsterdam, but the far-right is victimizing them to repress Palestine solidarity.
The U.S. Election in the Context of Imperial Decline
By: Richard SeymourNovember 7, 2024
We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.
The systemic violation of students’ rights and freedoms has persisted for forty-five years under the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the current period under President Masoud Pezeshkian.
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.
Fighting antisemitism through solidarity doesn’t just create safety for Jews and all people; it allows us to directly confront the conspiratory core of contemporary fascist and rightwing arguments while building resilient antifascist and left movements.