Middle East 4 ChangeIraqi Protests: Deep Anger and Simple Demands
Monday, August 13, 2018
Darya Najim and Krekar Mustafa. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists August 2, 2018 Editor’s Note: Below we print an opinion article submitted by two Iraqi Kurdish…
Can Freedom and Capitalism Co-Exist?: Book review
Friday, August 10, 2018
Chris Wright. Posted on Counterpunch August 7, 2018. Being run by business, American culture suffers from an overwhelming preponderance of stupidity. When a set of institutions as reactionary…
Israel Illegally Enshrines Apartheid in Its “Basic Law”
Friday, July 27, 2018
Marjorie Cohn. Posted on Truthout July 24, 2018. On July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset enacted a law that illegally enshrines a system of apartheid. The legislation, which has the…
One Question: The future of Gaza
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Posted on State of Nature June 28, 2018. One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single…
Prisoners of a Vision: Dissidents in Sisi’s Egypt
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Tom Stevenson. Posted on LA Review of Books, June 27, 2018. ON JANUARY 31, 2017, four lawyers arrived at the steps of Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on the…
Iran’s Labor Protests/strikes, Revolutionary Socialist Direction and International Solidarity
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Frieda Afary. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialists June 13, 2018. Below is the text of Frieda Afary’s presentation to a group of international labor activists on…
‘The growth of right-wing forces is ominous’: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M. Posted on Frontline June 22, 2018. NOAM AVRAM CHOMSKY is one of the greatest intellectuals in modern times. For the past six decades…
Erdogan has used same techniques as Trump to de-democratize Turkey
Monday, June 25, 2018
Juan Cole. Posted on Informed Comment 25th June 2018. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, began his legitimate political career at the turn of this century with…
Istanbul’s Gezi Park: how did visual communication between protesters help create a movement?
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Olu Jenzen and Aidan McGarry. Posted on Open Democracy. This article is part of Right to Protest, a partnership project with human rights organisations CELS and INCLO, with support from…
Erdoğan’s ‘new’ Turkey: Purges and Paranoia
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Ella George. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 The elections due to be held on 24 June, brought forward abruptly…
Syria is not exceptional: interview with Joseph Daher | Part 2
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Joe Hayns & Joseph Daher. Posted on RS21 May 10, 2018. This is Part 2 of an interview with Joseph Daher, on revolution and counter-revolution in Syria. In…
The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Henry Siegman. Published by London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018 During the latest outbreak of violence in Gaza, Israeli security forces, using…
Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on ZCommunications May 23, 2018. 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed…
“There is a consensus. The proximate cause of the horror in Gaza is the Israeli blockade. It is not Hamas”
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Norman Finkelstein. Posted on Democracy now facebook Norman Finklestein on the Gaza blockade. http://ow.ly/nRTF30k1Ypu
Morocco’s Movements Take to the Streets for Water, Labor Reforms, and Human Rights
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Ilhem Rachidi. Posted on Toward Freedom May 10, 2018. Last December, the brothers Houcine and Jedouane Dioui died while working in a coal mine in Jerada, a small…
It’s the People, Stupid: Debunking the Myths on Protests in Armenia
Friday, May 4, 2018
Asbed Kotchikian. Posted on Hetq April 19, 2018. Since April 13, 2018 protesters in Armenia’s capital Yerevan have been gathering in public spaces, barricading roads and demonstrating against…
Turkey: Erdoğan’s Cesspit
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Daniel Finn. Editorial in New Left Review number 107. For the gatekeepers of established wisdom in the West, the rise of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was…
Writing about Violence: A Joint Reflection from Latin America and the Middle East
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Hiba Bou Akar , Roosbelinda Cárdenas This is a shortened version of an article that first appeared on MER284 This essay reflects on some of the challenges of…
Gaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justice
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Stephen McCloskey. Posted on Open Democracy 26, April 2018. In 2015, a Guardian editorial said that “The right of assembly in a public place is truly one of…
Systematic destruction of healthcare in Eastern Ghouta, Syria
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Posted on BMJ 28 March 2018. Systematic attacks on hospitals, patients, doctors, and civilians in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, have killed nearly 1600 civilians and resulted in the internal…
Seven years after: what is next for Syria?
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Syrian playwright Mohammad Al Attar moderates a panel on seven years of the Syrian revolution featuring the great Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Thomas Pierret and Kristin Helberg. The 18th…
Calling on world conscience
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh. Posted on Electronic Intifada April 7, 2108. Much has already been written and said about the bloody events of the first Great March of Return…
Bread, water and roses: The guerrillas of Shengal (Sinjar)
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Marcel Cartier. Posted on The Region on April 4, 2018. Powerful, sobering and heart-wrenching images are once again to be seen from the Yazidi heartland of Shengal, otherwise…
Israeli peace group urges soldiers to refuse orders to shoot Gaza protesters
Friday, April 6, 2018
Posted on Informed Consent on April 6, 2018. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem launched a campaign entitled “Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot,” on Thursday urging…
Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified By Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Posted Jewish Voice for Peace March 30, 2018 Jewish Voice for Peace is horrified by the Israeli response to the #GreatReturnMarch, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian…
Iran: Prison sentence for Maryam Shariatmadari for taking off her hejab
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the women of Enghelab Street, who took off her compulsory hejab as protest on 23rd February 2018, following the weeks of protest across in…
The Women’s Movement in Turkey
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Ecehan Balta and Arielle Concilio. Posted on Left Voice on February 28, 2018. Arielle Concilio of Left Voice spoke with Ecehan Balta of the socialist collective Başlangıç Kolektifi…
Climate & Capitalism Interview with Zafer Ülger: Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Zafar Ugler and Arielle Conclio. Posted on Monthly Review on March 5, 2018. Originally on Left Voice. Zafer Ülger is a member of the Başlangıç socialist collective in…
Egyptian Surrealist art at the Tate Liverpool, UK
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Marina Warner. Posted on London Review of Books Vol 40, no 5, March 8, 2018. Art et Liberté was a movement that came into being in 1938 in…
Turkey: conflicts on many fronts
Monday, March 12, 2018
Esen Uslu. Posted on Weekly Worker, number 1193, March 8, 2018. Despite the popularity of Turkish actions in Syria, Cyprus and the Aegean, the ruling AKP is forced…