Zep Kalb. Published on MERIP on November 2, 2017. At ten o’clock in the morning, Thursday October 5, 2017, about 500 teachers gathered in front of the Budget…
Cengiz Gunez. Posted by New Left Review 107, September-October 2017. In the Turkish general election of June 2015, the left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (hdp) won 13 per cent…
Yassamine Mather. Posted on Weekly Worker issue 1180, November 23, 2017. Last year, when Donald Trump was elected US president, old-order defenders of imperialism were telling the citizens…
Perry Anderson Published in New Left Review March-April 2011 The Arab revolt of 2011 belongs to a rare class of historical events: a concatenation of political upheavals, one…
Lindsey Hilsom Posted on New York Review of Books, 23 November 2017 The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh, with a foreword…
David Krieger Posted on Counterpunch on November 23, 2017 The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has been working to end the nuclear weapons threat to humanity and all life…
John Bellamy Foster. Posted on Monthly Review, Volume 69, Issue 06 , November 2017. Aside from the stipulation that nature follows certain laws, no idea was more central…
Jean-Marie Guéhenno. Published in Foreign Policy . The world is entering its most dangerous chapter in decades. The sharp uptick in war over recent years is outstripping our…
Marjorie Cohn. Published with permission from Truthout, November 4, 2017. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October…
Yassin al-Haj Saleh interviewed by Ashley Smith. Posted on International Socialist Review, Issue 107 Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the pivotal figures in the Syrian Revolution. He…
Jonathan Cooke. Posted on Counterpunch on November 2, 2017. There is more than a little irony in Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attend a “celebration” dinner…
By Eduardo Galeano, Book extracts Published in TomDispatch, November 2, 2017 The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died…
Manali Chakrabarti. Posted February 21, 2017 on Redline. According to the World Bank, India’s nominal GDP crossed the $ 2 trillion mark in 20141, and is slated to…
Dalia Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi. Book review: Posted on Jadalyya on October 20, 2017. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Daanish Faruqi (DF): As preface, it’s…
John Bellamy Foster Published in Monthly Review volume 69 number 3, July August 2017. The Russian Revolution of 1917 erupted on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of…
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