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Editorial: ISIS, U.S. both savage Iraq
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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Tagged 2003 invasion of Iraq, Aleppo, Arab spring, Baghdad, Barack Obama, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Assad, beheading, boots on the ground, Caliphate, chemical weapons, counter-revolution, Damascus, Dick Cheney, Egypt, Erbil, European Union, Free Syrian Army, George H.W. Bush, Haider al-Abadi, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Iraqi Army, IS, ISIS, Islamic Dawa Party, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, John McCain, Kurds, Marsh Arabs, Marxist-Humanism, Mosul, Mosul Dam, new humanism, Noury al-Maliki, Ottoman Empire, peshmerga, Rape, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, state capitalism, Sunni Arab, Syria, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Square, Tigris River, U.S., U.S. imperialism, World War I, Yazidi.
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Tahrir three years later
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 →
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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
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Egypt: Dual fascisms test women
For Egyptian women to experience freedom, the revolution has to continue, and for that to happen the revolutionaries have to oppose both Morsi and Sisi’s bloodthirsty military and fight for the vision of a new society that sustained them in Tahrir Square. Continue reading →
Egypt at deadly crossroads
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 →
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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
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Egyptian masses must determine the next stage of the revolution
The mass demonstrations that forced the removal of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3 were a call to continue and deepen the Egyptian revolution. Millions of people took to the streets in opposition to Morsi’s rule in demonstrations even larger than those that ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak. They were a measure of the detestation the Egyptian people had come to feel at the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood through Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party. It was this that forced the Egyptian generals to act, once again removing a president. Continue reading →
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Tagged Adly Mansour, Ahmed Shafik, Al-Nour, Arab spring, democracy, Egypt, Freedom and Justice Party, Galal Morra, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, labor, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed ElBaradei, Mohamed Morsi, Muhalla al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, religion, revolution in permanence, Revolutionary Socialists, Salafists, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Square, Tamarod, Tunisia, Turkey, women textile workers, youth
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Turkey, Syria and Iran at crossroads of world revolt
The mass protests in Turkey, the presidential election in Iran and, above all, the continuing struggle for the Syrian revolution express the depth of today’s social crisis. These crises are interpenetrated and inseparable. The stakes are high. Continue reading →
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Tagged AKP, al Qaeda, Arab spring, Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia, Cedar Revolution of 2005, China, Chokri Belaid, Egypt, feminism, Gezi Park, Hafez al-Assad, Hassan Rouhani, Hezbollah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iraq, Islamism, Israel, Jabhat Al-Nusra, Justice and Development Party, Kurds, labor, Lebanon, Mansour Osanloo, Middle East, Muammar Qaddafi, Occupy Gezi, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slobodan Milosevic, Syria, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Square, Taksim Square, Tunisia, Turkey, women's liberation, workers, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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Arab Spring and the missing link of philosophy
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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Tagged Ain Sokhna, al Qaeda, Al-Qadam, Aleppo, Alexandria, Arab spring, Baathist Party, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnian genocide, Chokri Belaid, counter-revolution, Crossroads of History: Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East, Damascus, dialectics, Egypt, Egyptian Trade Union Federation, Ennahda, feminism, G.W.F. Hegel, Hosni Mubarak, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iraq, Islamists, Jabhat Al-Nusra, Jobar, Karl Marx, labor, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Muhalla al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, neighborhood self-defense committees, patriarchy, philosophy of revolution, Port Said, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution, revolution in permanence, Revolutionary Socialists, sexism, shabiha, Spanish Revolution, Stalinists, Syria, Tadamon, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Violence against women, women's liberation, workers, Yarmouk, Yemen
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From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom
From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: Lead From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom by Terry Moon Two recent events have shown the deep and seemingly intractable worldwide oppression of women and, at … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Abortion, Addis Ababa, All India Progressive Women's Association, Arab spring, Bangladesh, birth control, Chokri Belaid, City of Joy, Congo, Contraception, Delhi, Egypt, Ennahda Party, Ethiopia, feminism, Hosni Mubarak, I Am One, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kavita Krishnan, Military rape, Mogadishu, Native American women, One Billion Rising, Opantish, Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, patriarchy, Rape, Reproductive rights, revolution, Roman Catholic Church, sexism, sexual harassment, Somalia, Syria, Tahrir Square, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World, Tunisia, VAWA, Violence Against Women Act, women's liberation movement
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March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters is available on the web
The March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters is available on the web. News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 2 March – April 2013 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead From India to Egypt … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abolitionist movement, Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Black history, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Families Against Solitary Confinement, California Nurses Association, CFASC, Chicago Youth Climate Coalition, City College of San Francisco, climate change, criminial injustice system, CYCC, Egypt, feminism, Forward on Climate, global warming, healthcare, Hosni Mubarak, India, Iraq war, Jyoti Singh Pandey, Keystone XL pipeline, labor, Maria Stewart, Nat Turner, News and Letters Committees, patriarchy, prison industrial complex, prisoners' hunger strike, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, security housing unit, sexism, shu, Some Cuts Don't Heal, Steven Spielberg, Tahrir Square, torture, U.S. Civil War, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), war on terror, women's liberation movement, workers
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Uprisings in Egypt and Syria confront counter-revolution
From the new January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Lead Uprisings in Egypt and Syria confront counter-revolution by Gerry Emmett “However partial the industrial revolt may be, it conceals within itself a universal soul: political revolt may be never so universal but it hides a narrow-minded spirit under the most … Continue reading →
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Tagged al Qaeda, Aleppo University, Arab spring, Bahrain, Bashar al-Assad, Bassem Youssef, Cairo Anti-war Conferences, capitalism, Egypt, Egypt Consitution, feminism, Freedom and Justice Party, Hosni Mubarak, imperialism, indignados, International Women's Day, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Israel, Karl Marx, labor, Lakhdar Brahimi, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, Muhallah al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, Occupy Movement, Palestine, patriarchy, Rania Kisar, revolution in permanence, Saudi Arabia, sexism, sharia, students, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Turkey, women's liberation, workers, Yemen, youth
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