American and British liberals tend to present phenomena like Donald Trump as distasteful ‘populist’ aberrations, based on the unfortunate and excluded ultra-poor. This is wrong on every count. In most places the ultra-right mass movements have their core in the comfortable (and generally older) middle classes, however much working class support they eventually garner. What is happening goes way beyond ‘populism’.
Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker write that the people of Rojava and north Kurdistan today need international solidarity more than ever.
Gilbert Achcar analyses Turkey’s murderous invasion, and argues that the Kurdish movement be given the means to resist.
Sarah Glynn, co-convener of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, argues that the United States’ backing of a Turkish offensive into Syria must be opposed
The Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists oppose the military attacks on the Idlib region and northern Hama and threats and assaults against the northeastern regions of Syria. We support all the innocent civilians in Syria.
Trump has not been reticent to support the wishes of the Israeli government; both the move of the embassy to Jerusalem and his recognition of Israel’s control over the Golan Heights come to mind. Within hours the Israeli government said that Tlaib and Omar were not welcome in Israel.
Gilbert Achcar speaks on the Long Arab Spring and the revolution in Sudan.
Watching the news about the attacks on 2 oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, I had this strange feeling of déjà vu
Sudanese trade unionists speak out as killings continue
