Africa & Middle East

End the blockade of Iran

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

On June 13, two tankers, the Japanese owned Kokuka Courageous and the Norwegian-owned Front Altair, were struck by explosions while sailing through the Gulf of Oman, close to the coast of Iran. The incident comes after attacks in May on two Saudi tankers, an Emirati vessel and a Norwegian tanker.

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

Assad to repossess Syria’s graveyards

Thursday, June 7, 2018

By Katie Pelikanou THE SYRIAN regime is undertaking a thinly-veiled legal manoeuvre to punish the millions of refugees who have fled the civil war, and entrench the postwar sectarian redivision of Syria by repossessing their

Israel celebrates Trump’s ‘present’ with fresh slaughter in Gaza

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Red Flag Statement ISRAEL HAS celebrated the opening of Donald Trump’s Embassy in Jerusalem with a bloodbath, by massacring at least 60 Palestinian demonstrators, including eight children, and wounding more than 2,270. This brings the

Assad’s gas habit and the West’s immoral “red lines”

Monday, May 14, 2018

By Marcus Halaby “Why would Bashar al-Assad have gassed his own people when he was already winning the war?” This question is frequently asked by many in the West of a generally anti-war disposition, who

Israel marks its 70th anniversary by massacring Palestinians

Saturday, May 5, 2018

By KD Tait OVER THE past four weeks, at least 37 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 4,000 wounded, by Israeli troops firing indiscriminately into demonstrations organised as part of the Great Return March.

The 70th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

By Dave Stockton THIS YEAR’S celebrations of the anniversary of the foundation of the State of Israel were bigger than ever. They were held on 18 April, corresponding to a date in the Hebrew calendar

Syria strikes risk escalating Middle East conflict

Monday, April 16, 2018

By Marcus Halaby The overwhelming priority of the Labour movement today is to prevent Britain from taking any further military action in Syria, or from joining any new Trump-led escalations of conflict with Russia or

Another Israeli massacre in Gaza

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Israeli armed forces, firing indiscriminately on unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, men, women and children, have killed at least 16 and injured well over one hundred. As is usual in such cases, the US and British representatives

Libya’s silent, deadly suffering

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

By Jaqueline Singh WHILE within Fortress Europe right wing agitation and violence against refugees are on the increase, its external borders are increasingly impenetrable. People who flee from hunger, war, violence and exploitation are drowned

Condemn Assad and Putin’s war crimes in Idlib

Sunday, February 4, 2018

THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights reports that Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes, artillery and barrel bombing helicopters have launched a major assault on the last extensive rebel-held region of Idlib, aided by their Russian allies. It

Business as usual in the ANC but fresh forces assemble to its left

Friday, January 26, 2018

NUMSA announces new ‘Revolutionary Workers’ Party’

Hands off Afrin! Solidarity with the Kurds!

Monday, January 22, 2018

THE INTERNATIONAL workers’ movement should take to the streets in solidarity with the justified resistance of the Kurds’ against Turkish militarism

Why won’t Labour show solidarity with Iran protests?

Monday, January 8, 2018

The Labour leadership’s ‘caution’ is a cover for ducking its duty of solidarity and giving the Iran regime the benefit of the doubt

Oppose UK support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen

Friday, December 8, 2017

By Marcus Halaby Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned prime minister Theresa May for her silence on Yemen prior to her recent visit to Saudi Arabia, pointing to the UK government’s “complicity in the Yemeni people’s

Labour, anti-imperialism and the war in Yemen

Thursday, December 7, 2017

A socialist international policy has to confront the imperialist division of the world driven by capitalist competition between nation states