Africa & Middle East

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