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Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 11th April 2024 by International Socialism

Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton have an interesting article, entitled “Reframing the geopolitics of global capitalism”, in the 2024 edition of the journal Socialist Register. Although framed in a somewhat obscure discussion of the philosophy of form or content,… Continue Reading →

Pick of the quarter imperialism, Middle East, Racism

Interview: fossil imperialism and green capital in the Middle East and North Africa

Posted on 11th April 2024 by International Socialism

Hamza Hamouchene is an Algerian scholar and activist who is based in London. He spoke to Oisín Challen Flynn about a collection of essays, Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (Pluto, 2023), which he co-edited… Continue Reading →

Interview climate crisis, energy, imperialism, Middle East

Reassessing revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Posted on 14th January 2023 by International Socialism

A review of Revolution is the Choice of the People: Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East and North Africa, Anne Alexander (Bookmarks, 2022), £12 Since 2019, the world has been witnessing a “third cycle of revolt”, following the anti-globalisation… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Arab revolution, Middle East, Tunisia

Behind the Lebanese apocalypse

Posted on 29th September 2020 by International Socialism

On 4 August a massive explosion shook Beirut port when a neglected storehouse of ammonium nitrate blew up, catapulting Lebanon onto the front pages of the global media. The volatile chemical was being stored next to the country’s main grain… Continue Reading →

Article Arab revolution, finance, Lebanon, Middle East, The Economic Crisis

From uneven and combined development to revolution: the roots of Algeria’s crisis

Posted on 28th March 2020 by International Socialism

On 2 April 2019, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign.1 In scarcely more than one month, a massive popular movement that had emerged for the first time on 22 February managed to get rid of the ageing and… Continue Reading →

Article Algeria, Arab revolution, development, Leon Trotsky, Middle East, neoliberalism

The “NGOisation” of the Syrian Revolution

Posted on 17th October 2019 by International Socialism

In March 2011 the Arab Spring arrived in Syria. Syrians had lived under the totalitarianism of the Asad family, first with the father, Hafez al-Asad (1971-2000), followed by the son, Bashaar al-Asad, for 40 years.1 This included a state of… Continue Reading →

Article Arab revolution, Middle East, NGOs, Syria

The contemporary dynamics of imperialism in the Middle East: a preliminary analysis

Posted on 26th June 2018 by Camilla

Recent months have been full of ominous signs of deepening conflict between the major players in what Alex Callinicos calls the “multi-level chess game” of Middle Eastern geopolitics.1 In March 2018, Turkish forces entered Syria, forcing tens of thousands to… Continue Reading →

Analysis Israel, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey

ISIS, imperialism and the war in Syria

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

For the fourth time in less than a decade and half the UK is at war, and once again the vast majority of the victims will be Muslims. Bolstered by the votes and voices of the Labour right, on 2… Continue Reading →

Analysis imperialism, ISIS, Middle East, Syria

Fascism and ISIS

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

Ghayath Naisse’s article “The ‘Islamic State’ and the Counter-revolution” is an extremely valuable contribution to the discussion about the nature of ISIS. In particular, Naisse’s emphasis on the devastating impact of war on Iraqi and Syrian societies—in the Iraqi case… Continue Reading →

Feedback ISIS, Middle East

The “Islamic State” and the counter-revolution

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

According to the world’s media outlets and major heads of state, a new threat has been looming over “world peace” since June 2014—the threat of ISIS. ISIS was presented as an imminent danger and, far from being constrained to the… Continue Reading →

Article ISIS, Middle East, Syria

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