Place: Middle East

Background on the Israel-Palestine crisis

The people of Palestine have suffered from multiple oppressions for many years.  Their homeland was occupied.  They lost many of their youth.  Their intellectuals were exiled or killed.  Their children experienced war and explosions.  Women experienced the loss of their

The Israeli state has responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas has its headquarters and over 2.3 million civilians have their homes, starving inhabitants of food, water, medicines and fuel. But why did this happen? And what can be done about it?

We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid.

Barak said, “Every reporter that lives in Gaza or in Israel knows” about the location of this command center. His claim is preposterous.

How the Gaza conflict is viewed from the Global South

Anne-Sylvie Sprenger interviews Gilbert Achcar on the Gazan conflict

Socialists should see the Palestinian struggle as inextricably tied to the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) against all the region’s states, most importantly Israel.

Statement by the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

What happens when the right takes over a nationalist movement?

The attack on Gaza threatens massive human suffering

Israeli draft refuser discusses the roots of Hamas’s horrendous attack

In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.

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

Background and prospects for the Iranian protests

Background and prospects for the Iranian protests

Ukrainian feminists see themselves as part of the same struggle as that of Iranian women

What are we to make of the Saudi vote to cut OPEC+ oil production?

At this time, international solidarity with women in Iran is critically important in order to help the continuation of the current courageous wave of protests in defense of women and against state brutality.