Africa & Middle East

Alaa Salah leads a crowd of protesters in Sudan with chants of "Thawra!" - Revolution!

Sudan: Counter-revolution strikes back, supported by the Egyptian and Saudi dictatorships

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

An indefinite general strike and international solidarity can beat the dictatorship

ANC retains power – but left makes big gains

Monday, June 3, 2019

By Jeremy Dewar In the end it was a comfortable victory for Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC and their allies, the trade union federation COSATU and the South African Communist Party (SACP). With 57.5 per cent of

A Mass People’s Revolution in Sudan

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Sudan is in the midst of a truly amazing people’s revolution, in which women are playing a major role, alongside youth, trade unionists, and oppressed national minorities. Among the slogans were “Freedom, Peace and Justice” and “Just Fall”.

Protesters calling for the remaining members of the Algerian regime to step down.

Algerian President Toppled, but Military Regime Remains

Saturday, May 4, 2019

On 2 April, six weeks of mass demonstrations, culminating in a general strike, finally forced the resignation of Algeria’s 82 year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The demands raised by the demonstrators have already moved on from the resignation of Bouteflika to the removal of the entire FLN regime.

Israel: Netanyahu’s victory paves the way for annexation

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Every dimension of this election revealed how the rightward, violently chauvinist political realignment in Israeli politics over the last decade has hardened to become the new centre ground.

Algeria’s revolutionary crisis

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Towards a workers’ and peasants’ government!

Leeds becomes the first UK University to divest from companies complicit with the Israeli military

Thursday, November 29, 2018

By Yousef Abdul-Fattah and Evie Russell-Cohen, Leeds Palestine Solidarity Group THE DIVESTMENT decision has been hailed as a win for Palestinians and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement with student groups across the country

The Crisis in South Africa

Monday, October 8, 2018

By Jeremy Dewar MANY SCHOOLS, Labour councils and community groups will be celebrating Black History Month by re-telling the inspiring story of the anti-Apartheid struggle. And so they should. But, only to tell the story,

Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF clings onto power

Monday, October 1, 2018

By Jeremy Dewar IN August, Emmerson Mnangagwa managed to gain just enough votes, 50.8 per cent, to win Zimbabwe’s presidential election, thus securing the post that he gained by force in the November 2017 military

Turkey: Elections extend Erdogan’s power

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

By Svenja Spunck THE HEADLINE results of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections are that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the presidential election and the alliance of his “Party for Justice and Development”, AKP, and the