A sectarian political regime Since the end of the civil war (1990), Lebanon has been a country ruled by parties that were heavily involved in the civil war. The leaders of most of these parties are former warlords, or their sons. The only fundamental difference between the parties is the religious group with which they […]
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Claus Ludwig is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). A new stage of the war in Syria is now beginning after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered Turkish troops to attack and occupy the Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria. The first wave of troops accompanied by widespread airstrikes has moved across […]
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Seamus Whelan is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The 1979 revolution didn’t have to end in a religious state Forty years ago, in January 1979 the hated Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled the country to the U.S. The Shah was driven out by a mass movement led by workers and […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The United States is dangerously close to a military conflict with Iran. The catalyst was the shooting down by Iran of a U.S. military drone on June 20. In response Donald Trump authorized airstrikes against Iran only to halt them ten minutes […]
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The City We Need Trudeau’s Pipeline Interview with Jean Swanson Student Debt Mountain Indigenous Education … more news from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]
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Kevin Parslow is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The CWI school 2018, attended by nearly 400 comrades from over thirty countries in Barcelona, opened with a lively and confident discussion on the turmoil and upheavals facing global capitalism and prospects for the class struggle and socialism. This session was […]
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Shahar Ben Horin is a member of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). This was one of the most important demonstrations organized in Israel in recent years. The fact that all six parties in the Netanyahu coalition government all oppose full equality to LGBT people has not prevented the right-wing regime from making cynical propaganda […]
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Around the world people have watched in horror at the unfolding violence perpetrated by the Israeli state against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Sixty were killed on 14 May alone, during protests against the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The following day, 15 May, marked the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) – the forcing […]
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Judy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Socialists Fight for Palestinian Liberation and Workers’ Unity The 70th anniversary of the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state is being marked this month in Israel. For Palestinian refugees, however, it marks only their ‘Nakba’, the Arabic word for catastrophe, when […]
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Shahar Ben Horin and Yasha Marmer are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). Trump’s declaration of unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, while ignoring the right of the Palestinians for a state with a capital in Jerusalem, ignited a wave of protest around the world, and already has raised the death toll […]
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