The Sahel region of Africa is facing disastrous drought conditions driven by changing climate patterns. It’s the band of semi-desert region that lies below the Sahara Desert adn stretches from one side of Africa to the other. Average rainfall compared to the 1950s is down by fifty per cent. (...)
As part of its series of material related to the most recent edition of the Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – New Left Project’s Ed Lewis interviewed Adam Hanieh about the international political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Ed Lewis: You see the six states of the (...)
Over the last six months, the Palestinian economy has been radically transformed under a new plan drawn up by the Palestinian Authority (PA) called the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP). Developed in close collaboration with institutions such as the World Bank and the British (...)
The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, “shock and awe” was the right description.
The docile, supine, unregenerative, cringing Arabs of (...)
GILBERT ACHCAR, WHO grew up in Lebanon, is professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, which is reviewed elsewhere in this (...)
Statement from organisations present at the New Anti Capitalist Party (NPA, France) Congress (12 February 2011). [Note: some missing signatures have been added and more may still be]
The overthrow of Ben Ali and Mubarak change the political situation not only in the Maghreb but on the (...)
We are reproducing here expressions of international solidarity toward the struggles of the Egyptian, Tunisian people (and other countries of this part of the world) we have received. We shall add new items once we receivez them. Statements which are not in English are not reproduced here. (...)
Lawrence Davidson says, “Keep your eye on the language: When South Africa assigned rights according to race they called it apartheid. When Israel assigns rights according to religion they call it the only democracy in the Middle East.”
Lawrence Davidson is a professor at West Chester University (...)
I can say without hesitation that the Tunisian and Egyptian people are writing the first pages of the revolutions of the 21st century. They are sending shock waves throughout the Arab world, from Algiers to Ramallah, from Amman to Sana’a in Yemen. These revolutions are also results, from the (...)
Does Ms. Dickinson really believe that Mohammad Bouazizi, the youth whose self-immolation ignited Tunisian intifada, read WikiLeaks before he set himself on fire on December 17? And does she really think Tunisians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudis and rest of the Arabs would need some leaked (...)
The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism.
What cannot but strike the eye in the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is the conspicuous absence of Muslim fundamentalism. In the best secular democratic tradition, people simply revolted (...)
The protesters in Tunisia and Egypt are calling for deep elemental changes in their societies.
Is this how empires end, with people flooding the streets, demanding the resignation of their leaders and forcing local dictators out? Maybe not entirely, but the breadth and depth of the spreading (...)
Statement by the Bureau of the Fourth International Fourth International.
“The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historical events. In ordinary times the state, be it monarchical or democratic, elevates itself above the nation, and history is (...)
January 27, 2011 — The revolt spreading from Tunisia to Algeria, Egypt, Yemen and beyond inspires both hope and fear. Hope, because so many tens of millions of people are taking to the streets at the risk of beating, torture and death to liberate themselves and their country. But also fear, (...)
The political upheaval which toppled Ben Ali’s regime in the most spectacular way is undoubtedly a historic moment. While acknowledging the Tunisians’ agency in bringing about this change it will not be an overstatement to say that Ben Ali’s regime would be the first Arab authoritarian regime to (...)
On Feb 1, 2011 in a remark on the riots of the Egyptians Obama stated, “Now, it is not the role of any other country to determine Egypt’s leaders. Only the Egyptian people can do that.” This is the right position to take except that the actual role of the United States, and the Western counties in (...)
The thunderous events set in motion by Israel’s storming of the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship in the peace flotilla challenging the blockade of Gaza, have thrown important light on the overall situation in the Middle East. Turkey has emerged as the major protagonist among the forces that support (...)
A recent statement by the chief of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. David Petraeus, that Israel may decide to attack Iranian nuclear sites has been followed by indications of a debate within the Barack Obama administration on whether Israel’s repeated threats to carry out such a strike (...)
See part 1: Palestine in the Middle East: Opposing Neoliberalism and US Power – Part 1
In the late 1960s, with the definitive collapse of British and French colonialism in the Middle East, the US rose to become the dominant imperial power within the region. Because of the presence of oil, the (...)
2008 is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel and of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe. What do you see as the Israeli goal and has it changed over the years? What is the current Israeli strategy regarding both Gaza and the West Bank?
These are many questions. Well, first of (...)
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