Tag Archives: Islamic fundamentalism

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

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

Terror at Kenyan mall

Posted on November 24, 2013 by franklindmitryev

In a horrific attack on the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Somalia-based Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab killed at least 68 men, women and children. The group claimed this atrocity was a reprisal for Kenyan troops being in Somalia. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged African Union, Al-Shabaab, Islamic fundamentalism, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, Omar Hammami, Somalia, United States, Westgate | Leave a comment

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, March-April 2013, Part 1

Posted on April 25, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: AMERICAN CIVILIZATION REMAINS ON TRIAL American Civilization on Trial (ACOT) is not “Black history.” Rather, Blacks play such an enormous role in the U.S. that their history that is in ACOT … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights, abolitionism, Abolitionist movement, African American, Alternative Minimum Tax, American Civilization on Trial, Arab spring, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Black history, Black masses as vanguard, Burma, capitalism, Chicago, democracy, Django Unchained, Edison Electric Company, green on blue attacks, India, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Islamic fundamentalism, John Brown, John Jay Chapman, Lincoln, Maria Alyokhina, Middle East, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, News and Letters Committees, Obama, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, One Law for All, Pussy Riot, Quentin Tarantino, Raya Dunayevskaya, Russia, sharia, The Abolitionists, United States, William Lloyd Garrison, women's liberation movement | Leave a comment

New publications of Marxist classics

Posted on March 8, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: New publications of Marxist classics A new South Asian edition of Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today by Raya Dunayevskaya has been published in India. South Asian readers can order … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Aakar Books, Adam Hochschild, anti-Semitism, Arab spring, Brecht Forum, Crossroads of History: Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East, India, Iranian Revolution, Islamic fundamentalism, Israeli occupation of Palestine, Lebanon, Mali, Marxism, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, Memoirs of a Revolutionary: 1905-1941, Mexico, Middle East, Palestinians, Peter Sedgwick, Raya Dunayevskaya, Richard Greeman, Syria, Victor Serge | Leave a comment

Women Worldwide, July-August 2012

Posted on July 25, 2012 by franklindmitryev

From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Women Worldwide, July-August 2012 by Artemis In May, delegations of Japanese officials came to Palisades Park, N.J., where more than half the community is of Korean descent, to request the removal … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, African-American women, Black people, Comfort women, feminism, HIV prevention, Islamic fundamentalism, Istanbul, Japan, Justice and Development Party, Korea, Louisiana Crime Against Nature Statute, New Orleans, Palisades Park New Jersey, patriarchy, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, sexism, transgender, Turkey, Women With a Vision, women's liberation, World War II | Leave a comment