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March 31, 2023

Middle East

Pogroms and Protests: Crisis unfolds in Palestine

By JAMES MARKIN The crisis of the status quo in Palestine that began in 2022 has deepened in the early months of 2023. This crisis is twofold: the racist Israeli...

Iran Is Ready to Deepen Economic Ties with China and Russia

By Gabriel Huland The arrest and killing of Jhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman,...

Protests in Iran and the Lessons of an Interrupted Revolution

The social unrest has been taking place in Iran for over 30 days, since...

Iran | On the rebellion against the Ayatollah regime

Six weeks ago a popular rebellion exploded in Iran in response to the assassination...

Iranian revolution: the struggle for power after the revolution

After the fall of the Shah's regime, Ayatollah Khomeini and his alliance with the...

Iranian revolution: the struggle for power after the revolution

After the fall of the Shah's regime, Ayatollah Khomeini and his alliance with the Ulama (Shiite clergy), the Bazaaris (traditional bourgeoisie and petty commercial...

Mobilizations in Iran Keep Growing and Target the Regime

By Florence Oppen This is the fourth week of important mobilizations in Iran following the killing of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini by the...

Iran | ‘Woman, life, freedom!’ Protests in Iran for gender equality and social justice

By Alborz Koosha, originally published on Workersvoiceus.org In March 1979, tens of thousands of people, predominantly women, protested in Tehran against the then new law...

The ceasefire won’t stop the ethnic cleansing

Last Friday, the criminal Zionist occupation imposed another bloody weekend of terror on the 2 million Palestinians who live under inhuman siege for 15...

The Elephant in the Room: Israel Murdered Shireen Abu Akleh

Early in the morning of May 11 in the Palestinian city of Jenin, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by Israeli snipers. The...

IWL Statement in Support of the Protests in Iran

This is the third month of widespread protests and mass mobilizations in Iran. This wave of struggle, which has massively mobilized three major social...

Iranian protests continue into 2023

By Carlos Sapir Originally published on Workers' Voice / La voz de los trabajadores More than three months have passed since Mahsa Amini’s death in the...

The Israeli Election and Palestinian Resistance

On November 1, 2022, the Israeli election took place. There was no room for the Palestinian people to express themselves even though they constitute...

International Aid for Syria is a Failure

The series of earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6th have already left more than 46,000 dead and millions homeless in the...

The Earthquake Devastated an Already Devastated Syria

The February 6 earthquake devastated Turkiye and Syria. Destruction and death are everywhere. In Syria the earthquake came after 11 years of bloodbath carried out...

Palestine in 2023: The Oslo system is collapsing — what will replace it?

By James Markin Originally published on Workers' Voice / La voz de los trabajadores As 2023 gets underway, a brand new right-wing government is coming together...

Iran | No to the execution of Amir Nasr-Azadani

A few days before the World Cup finals in Qatar, a piece of news has made an impact inside and outside the world of...

World Cup in Qatar: when sport is used as a cover for exploitation and oppression

On Sunday the 20th of November, Emir Tamim Bin Al Thani spoke at the opening of the World Cup, hailing the diversity. "What a...

Another election, another atrocity in Gaza

By Adam Iosefovich Originally posted on Workers' Voice An election looms in Israel, and bombs fall on Gaza. The macabre cycle has repeated itself with such...