Analysis

The following article, by Jeremy Salt, is republished from the American Herald Tribune: The retreat of US forces from northern Syria opened the gates to a Turkish attack on Kurdish ‘terrorists.’  Driven back by the Turkish military’s proxies, the Kurds finally returned to the national fold and asked the Syrian …

The following article, by Ajamu Baraka, was originally published at Black Agenda Report: “Western radicals must take a consistent anti-imperialist position despite the internal contradictions or problems that exist within a state in the Global South.” Despite so many self-defined radicals’ reading and claims to understand Gramsci’s corrective to Marxism-Leninism’s …

The following article was originally published at Moon of Alabama: Eight days ago U.S. President Donald Trump gave a green light for another Turkish invasion of Syria. We explained why that move made it inevitable for the Kurds to submit to Damascus and to let the Syrian Arab Army back into northeast …

Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War was interviewed on RT International on the breaking news of a (partial) US withdrawal from Syria in the face of an illegal Turkish invasion and the throwing of the Kurdish separatists under the bus:  

On October 7, The Taylor Report, a weekly radio show on CUIT 89.5 in Toronto, interviewed Zafar Bangash, editor of Crescent International, about Trump’s dramatic announcement of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria. In addition, Phil questions Bangash about the street demonstrations and rioting in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad. According to …

R. J. Eskow interviews journalist Max Blumenthal, author of The Management of Savagery, in the following clip, filmed after the Syria Solidarity Movement delegation returned from the international trade union conference in Syria:

The following article by Judith Bello was originally published at the United National Antiwar Coalition blog on September 17, 2019: The comments below were inspired by the comments of various speakers at the conference and especially the optimistic speech by Syrian President Bashar Assad on the morning of September 9th …

The following article, by Steven Sahiounie, is reprinted from Mideast Discourse: After an 8 year conflict, which has killed over 400,000 people and displaced millions more, Syria cannot return to a pre-2011 system. The task ahead is to find a balance of compromise that may form a new social contract …

The following article, by Yasemin Zahra, a member of the delegation to the trade union conference in Syria, is republished from U.S. Labor Against the War: Why Syria? Our obligation to building the international working class is seldom the easy thing to do, especially in a time of open economic …

The following speech was written by Mark Taliano for the General Federation of Trade Unions Conference in Damascus, where he was part of the North American delegation. You can read more of Mark’s reports and analysis on Syria and elsewhere on his website, marktaliano.net. Greetings delegates and organizers.  My name …