Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. “There’s no floor under the U.S.-China relationship. We keep finding new lows,” says author and China expert Richard McGregor. The conflict between the two biggest imperialist powers is escalating at dizzying speed. In July, the US ordered the closure of China’s consulate in Houston, which was followed immediately […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. “Before the Lebanese were angry because they had no money and no electricity. Now they have no windows and many do not have homes. If there is no bread, the people will be forced to violence. No electricity, no home, no bread? That’s a revolution” Abu […]
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Yassine Laabadi is a member of Tayaar al-`Amael al-Qa`aedi (ISA in Tunisia). The huge explosion that occurred yesterday evening in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in the heart of the commercial port, has shocked many people the world over. It resulted in a large number of victims. Extensive solidarity was displayed on social media from various […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). The statement by former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) commander Alireza Alavi-Tabar recently that, “if the current situation continues, people will rise up and the government will face a revolution or collapse which we should deter at all costs,” demonstrates how the Iranian ruling […]
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Starting on July 1, the new Israeli power-sharing coalition government is threatening to launch, with the support of the US Trump administration, an official annexation of up to 30% of the occupied West Bank to the State of Israel. Even a smaller scale annexation would mark an immense blow against the democratic and national ambitions […]
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Christian Pistor is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). The lockdowns across much of the planet put an end to the wave of massive street protests in countries such as Iraq, Algeria, Chile, France and Hong Kong in 2019. Lebanon’s lockdown began in mid-March ending a wave […]
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Uri Bar-Shalom Agmon and Shahar Ben Horin are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). Emergency measures are needed to lift restrictions on the Gaza strip, so that all the necessary medical equipment and assistance can be delivered. The 13-year long draconian blockade imposed on two million Palestinians in the most densely populated place […]
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Mike Forster is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Humanitarian Catastrophe Threatens Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic has shown it does not discriminate in the way it infects people, as the virus continues to spread rapidly across the world, it’s clear that the effects on those countries and peoples which are the least […]
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Turkish President Erdogan’s decision to push thousands of refugees and migrants to the country’s mainland border with Greece on the Evros river and the islands has led to the greatest crisis over refugee flows since 2015 and to the worst crisis, in the recent period, between Greece and Turkey. Starting on 27th February, the Turkish […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. Despite the brutal suppression of the latest wave of protests, the dictatorial regime that came to power 40 years ago is now much weaker, facing a severe crisis. The crucial question is what should be […]
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