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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 →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | 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. | Leave a comment

From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy

Posted on May 5, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Revolution and counter-revolution contend now, while the prolonged global capitalist economic crisis refuses to end. The question arises: where is the needed banner of total uprooting of the system and creation of new human relations as the goal? This objective need is present in every struggle from outright revolution in the Middle East to movements in the U.S. Beset by attacks and contradictions, they have in turn sparked counter-revolutions. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 1953 Letters on Hegel's Absolutes, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alisar Iram, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia, Bosnian Spring, capitalism, Counter-revolutionary, Crimea, Croatia, dialectic, Dmitry Kiselyov, Egypt, European Union, Free Syrian Army, Hezbollah, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Joseph Stalin, Maidan, Marxism, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, NATO, News and Letters Committees, Occupy Gezi, Orange Revolution, philosophy, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reshat Ametov, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosa Luxemburg Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, Russia, Ryan Crocker, serbia, Slovenia, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tatars, The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism, Turkey, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, war, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Yulia Tymoshenko | 1 Comment

Ukraine and Bosnia: historic uprisings

Posted on March 16, 2014 by franklindmitryev

In Ukraine, an unexpected eruption of mass struggle led to the overthrow of Ukraine’s corrupt, oligarchic, and ultimately murderous President Viktor Yanukovych. In Bosnia, at the same time, massive, nationwide discontent with the corrupt system left in place when the 1995 Dayton Accords partitioned the country has led to the equally unexpected creation of new forms of democratic organization. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 1989 East Europe revolutions, Alexander Dugin, Arab spring, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian genocide, Crimea, Dayton Accords, democracy, fascism, feminism, G.W.F. Hegel, genocide, imperialism, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kiev, lgbt, lgbtq, Maidan, Middle East revolutions, oligarchs, Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Right Sector, Russia, Sarajevo, serbia, Sevastopol, Slobodan Milosevic, state capitalism, Stepan Bandera, Svoboda, Syrian revolution, Tatars, Tuzla, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, Yulia Timoshenko | Leave a comment

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

Posted on March 13, 2014 by franklindmitryev

While experiences in the squares of the Arab Spring, in Turkey’s Gezi Park, in the streets of Spain and Greece, and in the U.S. Occupy Movements have revealed moments of what new human relations between women and men could look like, those moments of hope and exhilaration have been followed by devastating reaction and retrogression. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Abortion, Afghan Women's Network, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, African Americans, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, Black liberation, Burma, Contraception, Dina van der Zalm, Egypt, feminism, food stamps, Gezi Park, Greece, Hamid Karzai, Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jordan, Kachin, Latinas, Lebanon, Louisiana, Middle East revolutions, Missouri, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Myanmar, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuba Mountains, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, poverty, racism, Rape, Raqqa, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual harassment, Shan, Sima Samar, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Suraya Pakzad, Tahrir Squares, Taliban, Texas, Turkey, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, Unemployment, United States, Violence against women, Virginia, Wendy Davis, Women's League of Burma, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Syrian revolution ‘brought us together’

Posted on February 9, 2014 by franklindmitryev

“If there was no revolution in Syria, I almost feel like there would be no reason for me to exist. You don’t get tired of it. Revolution is what brought us together, as Syrians, for the first time.” Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged al Qaeda, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Free Syrian Army, Hafez al-Assad, Homs, Human rights, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Kafranbel, Middle East revolutions, Raed Fares, Razan Ghazzawi, Syria, Syrian revolution, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: ISIS

Editorial: ISIS, U.S. both savage Iraq

From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy

Ukraine and Bosnia: historic uprisings

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

Syrian revolution ‘brought us together’

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