Tag Archives: counter-revolution

Editorial: ISIS, U.S. both savage Iraq

Posted on September 4, 2014 by franklindmitryev

The explosive advances of the army of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), crossing from Syria into northern and central Iraq, have brought deeper miseries to the Iraqi people who might have expected they had already endured the worst, including the effects of U.S. imperialist policy. Atrocities from mass shootings and beheadings to systematic kidnapping and rapes of women—that the world and U.S. foreign policy ignored when IS carried them out against anti-Assad revolutionaries in Syria—in Iraq no longer remained hidden. Continue reading →

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Israel decimates Gaza as world faces global counter-revolutions

Posted on September 4, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Lead from the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Israel decimates Gaza as world faces global counter-revolutions The loss of lives and vast destruction visited In Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed the horror of 2008’s “Operation Cast Lead.” Over 2,000 Palestinians … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Arab spring, Asmaa al-Ghoul, Avigdor Lieberman, Ayelet Shaked, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, counter-revolution, Egypt, Elizabeth Tsurkov, Eyal Yifrach, Gaza, Gerry Emmett, Gilad Shaar, Hamas, Israel, Israeli occupation of Palestine, Israeli Right, Jewish Voice for Peace, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, Naftali Bennett, Naftali Fraenkel, Operation Cast Lead, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian unity government, Palestinian youth, Qatar, revolution, Syria, Turkey, two-state solution, West Bank, Zeev Sternhell | Leave a comment

Call for News and Letters Committees Convention, 2014

Posted on March 11, 2014 by franklindmitryev

News and Letters Committees has posted its OFFICIAL CALL FOR CONVENTION to Work Out Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2014-2015 February 23, 2014 To All Members of News and Letters Committees Dear Friends: The sharpness of revolution and counter-revolution … Continue reading →

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Teach-in on the Revolution in Syria

Posted on February 26, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Participant report on a New York teach-in on “Syria in the Context of the Arab Uprisings.” Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Alawites, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, counter-revolution, Damascus, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamism, Leila Shrooms, Middle East North Africa Solidarity Network-US, Middle East revolutions, New York University, Razan Ghazzawi, Revolutionary Councils, Stop the Killing Campaign, Syria, Syrian revolution, Syrian Revolution Youth Coalition, Union of Free Students | Leave a comment

Tahrir three years later

Posted on February 7, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Three years ago, the Egyptian Revolution was fighting for its life in Tahrir Square. For 18 days and nights, the women and men of the Square faced off against President Hosni Mubarak’s security forces and thugs. In the end Mubarak was forced to follow Tunisia’s President-for-life, Ben Ali, into retirement and shame. The light of freedom spread–Square to Square, occupation to occupation. It was a historic turning point. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Arab spring, counter-revolution, Hanaa Safwat, Hosni Mubarak, imperialism, Iran, Islamic fundamentalism, Karl Marx, labor, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Nour Party, Paris Commune of 1871, philosophy of revolution, religious fundamentalism, revolution in permanence, Saud Omar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tunisia Jasmine Revolution, Turkey, V.I. Lenin, women's liberation movement, workers, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Leave a comment

Rampant U.S. surveillance slouches toward totalitarianism

Posted on February 6, 2014 by franklindmitryev

So overwhelming has been the past year’s flow of revelations about the U.S. government’s spying on virtually everyone that even President Obama’s hand-picked review panel had to acknowledge it. Though noting the potential for abuse of the state’s mountains of covertly gathered data, nowhere does the report by Obama insiders grapple with the question of just what sort of totalitarian instrument the militarized top secret government has become. Continue reading →

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The Syrian Revolution as the test of world politics

Posted on November 13, 2013 by franklindmitryev

On Aug. 21 the genocidal regime of Bashar al-Assad murdered over a thousand civilians, mostly women and children, with sarin gas in the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta. It committed this crime in full view of the world—images of hundreds of murdered children, still in pajamas, laid out in temporary morgues, shocked viewers across the world.
Since April 2011 the world has looked on as over 115,000 Syrians have been killed, and over 7.2 million have been made refugees. When Assad’s regime resorted to illegal chemical weapons, it seemed to many that this would change. It seemed that the images of so many murdered innocents might compel some action. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged al Qaeda, Al-Baghdadi, Aleppo, Ali Khamenei, ANA New Media Association, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Ben Allison-Davies, chemical weapons, counter-revolution, Egypt, Free Syrian Army, Ghouta, Hassan Rouhani, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, John Kerry, Local Coordination Committees, Middle East revolutions, political Islam, Rami al Razzouk, Raqqa, Russia, sarin, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian National Council, Tea Party, Tunisia, Turkey, UN Security Council, Vladimir Putin, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part II

Posted on October 12, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part II Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Access Living, ADAPT, Arab spring, capitalism, Communization theory, counter-revolution, criminal injustice system, Department of Health Care and Family Services, DHCFS, dialectic, Disability Pride Parade, disability rights movement, East German Revolt of 1953, Folsom State Prison, Human rights, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Karl Marx, Maximus, Medicaid, Middle East, North Korea, Paris Commune of 1871, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, people with disabilities, political Islam, prison industrial complex, prisoners, queer liberation, revolution, Russia, Vorkuta | Leave a comment

Egypt at deadly crossroads

Posted on September 7, 2013 by franklindmitryev

The horrific events taking place in Egypt today show the dead end of all alternatives to revolution. The military, led by Deputy Prime Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has been all too happy to retake power and impose capitalist “stability” once again. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Arab spring, counter-revolution, Damietta, democracy, Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hosni Mubarak, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, Mona Eltahawy, Muhalla al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Repression, Tahrir Square, Tamarod | Leave a comment

Arab Spring and the missing link of philosophy

Posted on May 4, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Tunisia, Syria and Egypt show the determination of the masses to continue their revolutions in the face of vicious counter-revolution. Continue reading →

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