Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific reality, Washington backed down. Trump announced that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. The pause in the war provides at least a temporary respite for the people […]
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Over a year of incessant mass atrocities and the Government of Death of Netanyahu and the far-right is galloping, full of hubris, into the regional military escalation it initiated. Domestically, it does so under the guise of “security” demagoguery designed to disguise the political purpose of deploying the Israeli war machine. Along with the continuation […]
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The onslaught of assassinations and bombings in Lebanon is pushing the entire Middle East into the abyss of a regional war. Now with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Iranian missiles fired at Israel, on top of the massive bombings in Beirut and the assassination of the secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, signifies a […]
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Demonstrative Assassinations Deepen and Expand the Bloodbath The provocative assassinations by the right-wing Israeli government in the last 24 hours have aggressively swung the regional pendulum from the possibility of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, towards a wide-scale “multi-front” escalation in the direction of regional war. The danger inherent in this development and its destructive […]
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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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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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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 […]
Continue ReadingSerge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Build a united struggle of workers and youth – for a socialist alternative to communal divisions, poverty and war! Lebanon has been swept by mass protests for the last two weeks. These have been triggered by the unbearable accumulation of tons of garbage […]
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