Balance sheet and perspective of the current proletarian struggles all over the world
Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Nov 14 2019 16:49
This past year we see revolts one after the other all over the world: revolts that lead Macron to visit the bunkers of the Elysée, that make Lenin Moreno move the seat of the government to Guayaquil, that assault the barracks and the headquarters of bourgeois parties in Iraq while reviving the memory of the insurrection of 1991, that topple one after the other prime ministers in Haiti or that plant a black flag in the Hong Kong parliament. The world bourgeoisie is beginning to get afraid.
Clash of Counter-Revolutions in Lebanon
Having consolidated its power following the revolutionary wave in the past years, the counter-revolution continues to extend its influence in the region. After a direct clash, and through its agents, in Yemen and Syria, it seems that Lebanon is next. Or, at least, something is being prepared.
Who is profiting from Syria?
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 7 2017 20:14
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.
House to Goddess of the House: Gender, Class and Silk in 19th Century Mount Lebanon
An essay on the development of capitalism in Lebanon and the effects it had upon gender roles. Mainly focusing on women workers in the silk industry from a Christian Lebanese background.
Various statements and leaflets - Jewish Anarchist Committee
Miscellaneous statements and leaflets by the Jewish Anarchist Committee. Primarily covering the early 1980s period of the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli and Syrian excursions into Lebanon. The JAC aim was to promote an anarcho-syndicalist, anti-zionist, and non-national libertarian point of view on matters pertaining to the Israeli invasion and within the broader political scene in New York and elsewhere on these and other matters. The JAC was heavily supported by the New York / New Jersey based Libertarian Workers Group (LWG).
Beirut, Frontline Story - Daniel Machover (book review)
Critical book review by Daniel Machover of Selim Nassib and Caroline Tisdall's Beirut, Frontline Story.
Israel in Lebanon - Daniel Machover (book review)
Book review by Daniel Machover of Seán MacBride et al.'s Israel in Lebanon.
Letter from the West Bank on the war in Lebanon - 'Adil Samara
An independent leftist viewpoint on Israel's intervention in Lebanon and the consequences it poses the PLO.
The Lebanese communities and their little wars - Magida Salman
Analysis by Lebanese activist Magida Salman on the political psychology of the different warring sects within Lebanon, and how, even before the Israeli invasion, the country's body politic had disintegrated massively, with distinctions between left and right being drowned in the blood of sectarian killings.
Pax Hebraica - Emmanuel Farjoun
Emmanuel Farjoun looks at Israel's intervention in Lebanon, showing that it forms just the first step of a far-reaching plan to reorganise the Middle-Eastern political landscape under its political control.
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