Who is profiting from Syria?
This is one of a series of articles written by Shoal Collective in the run-up to the DSEI arms fair. This one focuses on Syria, who is involved in the conflict, and who is arming them. It was originally published in The Region.
Image by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam
As all the world’s conflicts are played out in Syria, arms companies are making a killing.
DSEI: A supermarket for state surveillance and border wars
Media, Clinton supporters offer frenzied support for Syria intervention, refuse to learn from Libyan disaster
When insurrections die - Gilles Dauvé
This is a reconceived version of 'Fascism and Anti-Fascism'. In this text, Dauvé shows how the wave of proletarian revolts in the first half of the twentieth century failed: either because they were crushed by the vicissitudes of war and ideology, or because their “victories” took the form of counter-revolutions themselves, setting up social systems which, in their reliance on monetary exchange and wage-labour, failed to transcend capitalism.
Silence in the West as Libya falls deeper into the abyss
Libyan petrodollars and the overthrow of Gaddafi
Lies, slaughter, capital: The 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, part two
As discussed in part 1, the intervention was not undertaken for humanitarian reasons, but then why? Here I will try and explain the purpose of the intervention, how the Great Powers felt there was much to be gained, and only human lives to lose.
Lies, slaughter, capital: The 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, part one
There were a lot of interesting factors at play in the 2011 NATO bombings, and I want to start discussing them by first dispelling any idea that the bombings were somehow undertaken for humanitarian purposes. Continued in part 2.
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