Middle East 4 ChangeThe Sisi coup enters its fourth year
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Sameh Naguib, Revolutionary Socialists. July 2016 marks the beginning of the fourth year of the 3 July coup. The events of the last three years have shown, beyond…
Working class power & feminism: An interview with Alia Amirali
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Links. Sara Jaffri (SJ): How did you get involved in political work, and with what sort of organizing have you been involved? Alia Amirali (AA): I grew up…
Daraya
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Leyla’s blog. Four years following its liberation, the predominantly agricultural town of Daraya, strategically located near the capital, has fallen to the regime. A deal was reached to…
Book Review: women fight the Islamic state
Monday, August 29, 2016
Janet Biehl, Roar. A Road Unforseen: Women fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax. Second Wave feminism, once it erupted in the late 1960s, called out misogyny where…
Food Sovereignty in Rebellion: Decolonization, Autonomy, Gender Equity, and the Zapatista Solution
Monday, August 22, 2016
Levi Gahman, Znet. One of the biggest threats to food security the world currently faces is neoliberalism. It’s logic, which has become status quo over the past 70…
Political Islam, Part 3: How it effects society
Friday, August 19, 2016
Ardeshir Mehrdad, Illustrations by Ardeshir Mohassess. An illegitimate child of advanced capitalism, Political Islam has profound effects on the society that gives birth to it both before and…
Iraq’s forgotten uprising
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Robin Yassin-Kassab Qunfuz A great deal has been written on the factors behind the rise of ISIS, or Daesh, in Iraq and Syria. Too much of the commentary…
A letter in my purse: a poem
Friday, May 20, 2016
Shaimaa El-Sabbagh translated by Maged Zaher Arablit Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, poet and Socialist Popular Alliance Partya ctivist who was shot dead at a rally in Tahrir Square I am not…
A Commune in Rojava?
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Alex de Jong New Politics The siege of Kobani by Islamic State (ISIS) brought worldwide attention to the Syrian Kurdish PYD (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat, Democratic Union Party), the…
Number of civilians killed or injured by explosives rises 50% in five years
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian More than 33,000 civilians were killed or injured by explosive weapons in 2015, an increase of more than 50% in five years, according to…
Political Islam, class and capital Part 1: what are its common features?
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
By Ardeshir Mehrdad Illustration by Ardeshir Mohasses The last three decades have witnessed a relentless growth of Islamist movements, so that today political Islam is an undeniable reality…
Islam and modernism VII – Gellner’s thinly veiled historic idealism
Monday, November 30, 2015
By Mohammad Reza Shalguni Ernest Gellner is one of the most well known figures of modern sociology among Western academic circles and one of the most influential exponents of the…