Middle East & North Africa

Once again slim hopes have risen that the death toll in West Asia’s current wars will, at least, lessen with the announcement of a 60-day extension of the shaky truce between the US and Iran.  As Gaza, and now Lebanon, has shown, a truce can lessen the numbers of dead and injured but not completely stop the killing and […]

Under pressure, Netanyahu declared that “at the moment, the fire has been halted”. But the war on Lebanon continues and the aggression against Iran has only halted for the moment First published on socialiststruggle.org on […]

No genuine solution without a struggle for a socialist Middle East Moshé Machover, the last of the founders of the historic socialist organisation Matzpen, has been active in Britain in recent decades and continues to […]

The impunity with which US-Israel waged war on Iran, killed its supreme leader, preceded by the genocide in Gaza, has led to shock, disbelief and anger among the masses in the region and around the […]

The cynical attempt to manipulate the liberation aspirations of the masses in Iran in order to impose a new regime of repression, subservient to Washington’s dictates, has failed. The offensive has produced a catastrophe on […]

For millions of workers, there are bitter memories of the depths of the cost-of-living crisis. For many, it never ended. And so projections for a new round of inflation coming down the track will be […]

The devastating war launched by the Netanyahu and Trump regimes continues to increasingly devastate Iran, Lebanon, the Gulf States, the world economy, and world relations. It is now also provoking turmoil in the domestic social […]

By late March 2026, the US and Israeli war against Iran had evolved into the most dangerous Middle Eastern conflict in decades. What began with the Israeli assassination of Iran’s supreme leader on 28 February […]

The conflict that has raged for over three weeks in the Gulf, and continues as we go to press, is the third US war in the region since the end of the Cold War more […]

Sean Figg discusses the latest developments in the war on Iran with Bob Labi, from the CWI’s International Secretariat. This episode focuses on the question of programme. What attitude should socialists take to towards the […]

Working class people, the world over, are paying the price of Trump’s Iranian adventure. More precisely we are paying for Netanyahu’s war, as it looks, in part at least, as though Trump’s ego was goaded […]

Trump and Netanyahu are inflaming the Middle East, shockwaves are striking the global economy. The imperialist war declared on Iran and Lebanon is a blow to the security of the masses throughout the region and […]

At the beginning of this year, the world economy seemed to develop in a promising direction, according to some analysists. The IMF revised its forecast from October 2025 upwards and cited a “resilient growth”. However, […]

The war launched by the Trump/Netanyahu axis has plunged the world into its deepest state of turmoil since the 1973 oil crisis. It is a war aimed at recalibrating the relations in the Middle East […]

The onslaught against Iran, soon followed by Israel’s renewed war in Lebanon, has witnessed another round of lying and hypocrisy from the imperialist powers. For a second time in less than a year, Netanyahu and […]

There is no horizon for security or liberation in an imperialist show of force that deepens a regional bloodbath. Written by Shahar Ben-Horin & Yasha Marmar – a guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement […]

For a socialist alternative to imperialism and capitalist war! The unleashing of the dogs of war once again on Iran by the rogue regimes of Trump and Netanyahu has opened the ‘gates of hell’ for the […]

The governments of Israel and the U.S. launched military attacks on Iran last week. The Netanyahu and Trump regimes, including Republican and Democratic Party leaderships, have blood on their hands, killing innocent civilians in another […]

Yasha Marmer, a guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) in Israel/Palestine originally published on February 28th.  ( השקרים של השלטון לא יביאו ביטחון || לעצור את ההפצצות באיראן ואת מרחץ הדמים האזורי! • […]

  Once again peoples in the Middle East face the horrors of another war with its human casualties and physical destruction. Already there are reports of 85 people, mainly school students, being killed in a […]

Iran started the year with a mass uprising as its long-standing economic crisis collided with popular anger. While the scale of repression has intensified, the decisive question is whether resistance can develop the structures and […]

Amid the unrest following the recent mass protests in Iran, that were marked by brutal violence, a weeks’ long internet blackout, and ongoing arrest of those who spoke up, sections of the population have refused to […]

Rojava is under threat. The SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), dominated by the Kurdish YPG (People’s Defence Units), have retreated behind the Euphrates. They have lost much of the territory they previously controlled, including important oil […]

A mass mobilisation of Palestinian citizens of Israel took place on Thursday 22 January as part of a Day of Rage in protest at an all‑time record in the number of Arabs murdered amid the […]

Bob Labi and Sean Figg, from the Committee for a Workers International’s International Secretariat, discuss the protest movement that has rocked the Iranian regime over the past month, the attitude of the regional ruling classes […]

Once again Iran has seen a brave mass movement against hardship, oppression and a rotten elite. Thousands have been killed. The turn of the year saw a new upsurge of resistance against the impact of […]

Mass protests are spreading across Iran; in a show of widespread anger against the regime of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Pezeshkan, both of whom now have answers to give to these growing mass […]

Iran has been rocked by a new series of nationwide protests which have now entered a second week. Demonstrations began on 29 December as market traders and small business owners in Tehran closed down their […]

The MESEM (Vocational Education Centers) system in Turkey has recently received attention both within the country and abroad after the unlawful arrest of 16 TİP (Türkiye Workers Party) youth members from several different universities. It […]

The largest hunger strike on these islands since the 1981 Republican prisoners’ protest in the Maze prison in the north of Ireland is barely being registered by the mass media. The Filton hunger strikers are […]

Arrested for protesting child labour and work-related child deaths On 1 December, members of the Private School Teachers’ Union and 17 student members of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) were arrested while protesting Turkey’s […]

Thousands of residents of the southern Tunisian city of Gabès demonstrated on 15 October to demand the closure of a chemical complex of the Tunisian Chemical Group (TCG), which is responsible for serious environmental pollution. […]

There is No Solution Without a Struggle for Fundamental, Socialist Change, Including Ending the Occupation, Reconstruction, and Social Justice Below is a guest article by Shahar Ben-Horin, posted on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, […]

On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in […]

The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]

A big step forward for the solidarity movement in Germany On 27 September, around 100,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the largest protest to […]

Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the HTS (Hai’at Rahrir ash Sham – Committee for the Liberation of the Levant) under Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, has been […]

On 27 September, the largest mass demonstration to date in Germany calling for solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank and against occupation, displacement and war by the Israeli government could take […]

Nationwide protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza took place in every major city across Australia on Sunday, 24 August. Organisers claim this is the single biggest gathering for Palestine since the 7 October attacks in […]

Hundreds of deaths in Gaza from malnutrition, almost half of them children. Hundreds of people slaughtered while seeking food. And now the Israeli military says it is preparing for the forcible displacement of one million […]

Socialistworld.net has received the following urgent solidary appeal from worker activists in Iran. We ask our readers to urgently raise the case of Sharifeh Mohammadi at union branches and other labour movement meetings. Socialistworld.net Dear […]

After the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Turkey was shaken by a courageous mass movement that lasted for weeks.  Heroic mass movements of workers and […]

Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been massacred queuing for food in the past weeks. Television screens are filled with images of children starving and malnourished, hundreds of whom are hospitalised each day, dozens dying. […]

Plans have emerged for the forced displacement of all inhabitants of Gaza into a camp built on the ruins of Rafah. The proposal, which is supported by US president Trump as a step towards forced […]

The ceasefire in the Israel–Iran war has brought after twelve days an end, for now, to the aerial bombing offensive that killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, as well as to the counter-offensive in which missile […]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported that at least four journalists and media workers have been killed in Iran since the start of the Israeli offensive Guest article by Ariel Gottlieb, member of the […]

Trump’s decision to join in the Israeli state’s bombing war on Iran – fundamentally in the pursuit of regional dominance by US imperialism alongside Israeli capitalism and other Western imperialisms – clearly marks a new turning […]

Stop the war of deception, bring down the Israeli death government ! Netanyahu and Trump’s arrogant campaign for regime change in Iran is expanding the scale of the catastrophe ! Hundreds killed in Iran, escalation […]

The Netanyahu–Trump gang is expanding regional conflagration in service of the occupation and the rule of capital Advance broad protest, refusal, and strike action with the call: No to the Israel–Iran war, an end to […]

Truck drivers in Iran have been on strike since 22 May. Beginning in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the strike has spread to more than 150 cities in the days since. According to […]

Gaza was put under a complete blockade by the Israeli government for over two months up to 19 May. No food, medicine or even water was allowed to enter the territory, resulting in the deaths […]

Recent criticism of Israel for the suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza, from Keir Starmer and foreign secretary David Lammy is pure hypocrisy, typical of the British ruling capitalist class they both represent. Capitalist […]

The Met Police have charged Kneecap rap group member, Liam Ó hAnnaidh, better known as Mo Chara, with terror offences after videos surfaced seeming to show him with a Hezbollah flag at a gig in […]

On 18 May, up to half a million people marched against the slaughter in Gaza and the starvation policy imposed on the Strip by the right wing Israeli government. Days later, the UK Labour government […]

At many times since the start of the war on Gaza it has seemed that the situation in the strip couldn’t become much worse. But following the Israeli government’s renewal of bombardments in early March […]

Braving the rain – and despite all of the travel restrictions imposed in Istanbul – the May Day demonstration in Kadikoy, organised by trade union confederations DISK and KESK and professional associations, brought together tens […]

Once again, the people of Gaza are being bombed, shot and starved. Israel has imposed a complete blockade of water, food, electricity, and medical supplies. All humanitarian aid is withheld to Gaza. The World Food […]

On Saturday 5 April, members of Nakliyat-Is (affiliated to Revolutionary Workers’ Union Confederation, DISK) organised a protest outside McDonalds in Bakirkoy, Istanbul.  Union members protested Havi Logistics, the multinational company that supplies products to McDonalds […]

After the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor and President Erdogan’s main political rival, Ekrem Imamoglu from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), students have been organising mass protests and boycotts around the country, mainly in Istanbul […]

On Saturday 29 March, a massive demonstration in Maltepe, Istanbul, saw over a million people take to the streets after days of protests and mass arrests. Even approaching the protest, determined anger was clear on […]

Mass protests have erupted across Israel, with over 100,000 people demonstrating in Tel Aviv and other cities on 22 March. Protesters blocked highways, surrounded the Israeli parliament in a makeshift encampment and endured beatings by […]

End the attacks on democratic rights!  Fight the cost-of-living crisis and kick out Erdogan! Fight for a working-class socialist alternative! The following is the text of a leaflet distributed by Socialist Party (CWI England & […]

After four decades of brutal conflict, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has called on the organisation to lay down its arms and dissolve. His speech, delivered both in Kurdish […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime in Turkey has stepped up their crackdown on all opposition activists, targeting trade unionists, socialists, journalists, and Kurdish activists. Between 14 and 18 February, over 282 people have been arrested. […]

Most of the capitalist media worldwide reacted with astonishment and condemnation to US president Trump’s monstrous assertion that he plans to oversee an expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza strip, with the US taking ownership […]

Coming up to the 46th anniversary of its establishment, Iran’s theocratic regime is facing several crises, internally and externally. In this article, we will try to analyse how these crises are related and thus affecting […]

Six thousand Egyptian T&C Garments workers went on strike on 16th January. They demanded a 50% increase in annual bonus to cope with rising prices; a raise in meal allowances and their payment during Ramadan […]

But faces huge economic problems and outside powers’ interference Jubilation among big sections of the population of Syria followed the quick demise of the Basha al Assad regime in early December 2024. After twelve years […]

But how to end siege of Gaza and occupation of all Palestinian territories? Emotions ran high across the world at the news that a ceasefire deal was being agreed for Gaza. But alongside that wave […]

But independent workers’ organisation needed to struggle for socialist democracy Millions of Syrian people reacted with astonishment and joy at news that the Assad family’s five-decade long despotic regime had collapsed. President Bashir al-Assad, and […]

Relief swept across Lebanon when a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday 27 November. Thousands of displaced people headed back to their homes in south Lebanon, with many finding them destroyed or […]

Months of power cuts and rising prices are undermining Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi. His government is under growing pressure from all sides. In July, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly complained, “No one expected the heatwaves […]

World relations between imperialist and capitalist powers are in an unprecedented state of flux and turmoil. The unipolar world dominated by US imperialism that briefly existed following the collapse of the former USSR in 1991 […]

Brutal wars have repeatedly been carried out by Israeli military forces on Gaza since a ruthless blockade was imposed on that strip of land in 2007. Each one brought terrible death and destruction but the […]

The right-wing Israeli government has set about turning parts of Lebanon into rubble, as it has already done in Gaza following its decision to escalate its war against Hezbollah to a much higher level.  The […]

From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom is described as the first major book on the 2022-23 uprising in Iran. Protests were sparked in […]

Build mass working-class struggle to end war and win Palestinian national self-determination In the space of just a week, the reports from Israel-Palestine included yet more terrible atrocities carried out by Israeli military forces in […]

Against a background of growing protests August saw Iran gripped by a nurses strike that swept against the country. These strikes started after public protests by nurses and medical staff began on August 5 following […]

Following the death of the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran in a helicopter crash on May 19th, this year, the second round of voting to choose his successor took place in early […]

Egyptians expect intense summer heat in June and July but this year also had to endure daily three-hour power cuts. Fridges, air-conditioners, water pumping, lighting and electrical equipment stopped as indoor temperatures rose. People were […]

Queen Mary: ‘We won’t pack up and give up!’ QMUL student, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party As we go into another week of the Queen Mary University student encampment for Palestine, East London, it’s becoming clear […]

The recent decision by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and leaders of Hamas, was […]

As the UK general election campaign goes into full swing, many Tory and Blairite Labour politicians will probably be hoping that minds turn away from Gaza and their parties’ refusal during eight months of war […]

For most of April Iran and Israel appeared to be teetering on the brink of an all-out war, which could have engulfed the whole of the Middle East in flames. The month opened with Israeli […]

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, born in Iraq in the 1970s, began writing for the London Guardian and the Washington Post after the US led invasion in 2003. A Stranger in Your Own City starkly, and often beautifully, […]

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel ushers in a new, more dangerous, stage in the widening of the Gaza conflict towards a full regional war in the Middle East, something which would have global implications. In […]

Outrage at the massive death toll, destruction and famine in Gaza rose even further worldwide at the start of April when seven charity workers from World Central Kitchen were added to the victims of the […]

On 31 March 2024, voters in Turkey punished Erdogan’s right-wing pro-capitalist Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been in power for more than two decades. Following their electoral victory in major cities in 2019, […]

After almost six months, after more than 32,000 dead, after more than 74,000 wounded, and after the majority of buildings have been reduced to rubble, the United Nations (UN) Security Council has finally passed a […]

A quarter of the Gaza population are on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations (UN). In January, a whole swathe of rich capitalist  nations suspended funding for UNRWA – the UN body […]

Relentless grim news from Gaza has shifted the outlook of people across the Middle East and North Africa. US and European weapons have rained down on defenceless Palestinians while food and medical supplies are blockaded. […]

As well as coming under pressure from the masses over the Egyptian regime’s cowardly response to the Israeli state’s merciless attacks on Gaza, ‘strongman’ President Sisi faces rising workers’ anger. Sharply rising food prices have […]

The shambolic end to the UK parliamentary debate on Gaza on Wednesday 21 February reflected the pressure being felt from the anti-war movement on the Tories and Labour, and the widespread anger at their refusal […]

Interview with Weizmann Hamilton On January 11 and 12, 2024, the United Nation’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard the South African government’s case accusing Israel of carrying out “genocidal acts” in Gaza. On 26 […]

Days after the UN International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled that Israel must take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, Israeli forces continue their murderous bombardment from land and air. “Hague […]

Last December a video of 70-year-old Sadegh Bana Motejaded from the city of Rasht singing and dancing in the fish market where he worked caught the imagination of tens of thousands of Iranians. Soon people […]

Just over fifty years after the Arab-Israeli war fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 – also known as the Yom Kippur war as it began with a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish […]

Over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are suffering a horrific situation on a daily basis, with nowhere safe to go. Bombing continues and Israeli ground operations continue in the south – the area where people […]

A printable version of this article can be downloaded here.  The Israeli army is laying waste to Gaza. Whole communities are being destroyed and entire families wiped-out. The scale of displacement, as people are forced […]

Egypt’s entirely predictable presidential election has been won by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, president since 2014. From the election date announcement (several months earlier than it was due) to the declaration of result, the outcome was […]

Every day in Gaza a new unimaginable horror exceeds the horror of the day before. As winter begins, freezing is being added to bombing, hunger and disease as causes of Gazans’ deaths. At the time […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s electoral victory in the May 2023 elections, beating the pro-capitalist opposition alliance, have come as a surprise for many who desperately wanted to see the back of Erdogan in the […]

The world’s imperialist powers have always intervened in the Middle East for their own political, strategic and economic interests. On the one hand dishing out investment, aid, trade deals and promises of protection, and on […]

Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1254) weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). The brutal Israeli state wasted no time in re-releasing its horrific onslaught on the Palestinian people in Gaza as […]

The catastrophic situation in Gaza follows years of grim events across the Middle East. Just 13 years ago a very different outcome was possible. The ‘Arab Spring’ could have set the region on a different […]

After the start of the initial four-day Israeli ceasefire, aid workers who entered the Gaza Strip reported scenes of humanitarian catastrophe. Devastating injuries, overwhelmed hospitals, over 50,000 buildings destroyed or damaged, a dire shortage of […]

The vast majority of people are looking on in ever-growing horror as the destruction escalates in Gaza – as IDF forces assault al-Shifa Hospital and helicopters drop leaflets in south Gaza telling people to evacuate […]

The widespread killings of Israeli civilians in the October 7 attack were something that socialists did not support but neither do we support the subsequent onslaught by the Israeli state against the civilian population of […]

At the end of September Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Adviser, mused that “the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades”. Just a week later came the start […]

A month into this devastating war on Gaza and the world’s capitalist leaders are demonstrating again that our lives are not safe in their hands and their system. Capitalism means war, just as it means […]

The horrific images of the Israeli state’s brutal assault on Gaza have sparked an intense debate across the trade union movement and in individual unions about the attitude the workers’ movement must take to the […]

The following statement (translated from German) regarding opposition to the Israeli state attack on Gaza has, so far, been signed by over 200 individuals and organisations in Germany, including trade unionists, Left Party members, and […]

The world is looking on in horror at the siege of Gaza. The Israeli state has been carrying out unprecedented levels of airstrikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip ever since the terrible Hamas attacks […]

The horrific bombing of the Gaza Strip has continued relentlessly, inflicting terrible and unprecedented suffering on the trapped, blockaded population. The death toll has increased daily – over 8,300 at the time of writing – […]

Capitalism and its political representatives are totally incapable of meeting any of the needs of working-class and poor people anywhere on the globe. All that is on offer is a never-ending diet of war, poverty, […]

Just five days after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had launched his election campaign for a third term of office, war erupted across the border. With 2.3million Palestinians in Gaza, this dramatically escalates the pressures […]

For workers’ unity and struggle against national conflict and oppression The images from Israel and the Gaza Strip are horrific. Many hundreds of civilians are dead on both sides. The unprecedented attacks by Hamas inside […]

As we go to press, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel is “at war” after Hamas launched rockets across the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and Hamas fighters entered Israel. […]

“I have lived through two civil wars and a revolution. I work in a hospital, I see people die from the armed conflicts but nothing like this. This is overwhelming.” This is how one doctor […]

A year ago, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, then a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in the custody of the then recently re-activated so-called “morality police”. Her murder triggered a revolutionary process, initially led by brave youth and […]

Rich in lessons for today One of the most important and tragic events in the history of Iraq took place on 8 February, 1963. The left-wing government led by Abd al-Karim Qasim was overthrown in […]

Egypt’s economy goes from bad to worse. Workers and the poor suffer even more sharply as a result. Food prices shot up 59% in May, forcing many to a single meal a day. Even middle-class […]

Shortly before the Iranian New Year, on March 23rd, the Iranian Ministry of Labour decided to increase the minimum wage by 27%. Sounds large, but with this decision, the government broke its own law. According […]

After 27 weeks of mass demonstrations, the anti-Netanyahu democracy demonstrations are experiencing a new upsurge, with daily demonstrations outside the homes of members of parliament, as well as thousands demonstrating in Ben Gurion Airport, and […]

Thousands of Israeli soldiers, accompanied by drones and armoured bulldozers have invaded Jenin, killing 10 Palestinians, wounding dozens and forcing thousands to flee their homes. The so-called Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are preventing ambulances from […]

It is with great sorrow, that I have to report the untimely death of my friend and comrade, Maisoon Assadi. Maisoon was born to a large family in the Arab village of Dir El Assad, […]

In the presidential run-off election on 28 May, the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected as Turkey’s president, beating his opponent from the Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu by less than three million […]

In a very tight presidential election held on Sunday 14 May, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s right-wing populist leader, managed to secure the highest votes for himself and his Justice and Development Party (AKP). Even though […]

15 May is Nakba Day, marking the creation of the Israeli state in 1948, known also as the ‘Palestinian Catastrophe’. Protests are taking place internationally including last Saturday in London. Below is the text for […]

After being in power unchallenged for two decades, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be facing his toughest polling test in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections on 14th May. This is also the first […]

Government ministers were heckled by bereaved parents in memorial services in military cemeteries, up and down the country, on Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. This is an annual event commemorating the memory of IDF […]

Weekly mass protests in Tel Aviv, settler violence in the West Bank, and increasing Israeli state repression of Palestinians, Amon Cohen analyses an unprecedented crisis for the Israeli ruling class. On Sunday 26 February, hundreds […]

The brutal police attack on Palestinians in the al-Aqsa mosque has unleashed a new wave of conflict. Footage shared on social media showing paramilitary police using long battens to  relentlessly beat Palestinian men and women […]

The Sunday night sacking of Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant by Netanyahu unleashed a spontaneous eruption of protests. 600,000 poured onto the streets, blocking highways with burning barricades. In Jerusalem, protesters broke through the barriers […]

20 years ago, in the Spring of 2003, the Iraq war began with the US-UK bombing and invasion of Iraq. Mass opposition to the war, including up to two million marching in London on 15 […]

Early March saw demonstrations across Iran in protest at the apparent chemical attacks against female students that have taken place since last November. This seems to be an organised attempt to intimidate young women who […]

Egypt’s severe economic crisis is worsening. During President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s tenth year in power, working-class people, the urban poor, and even previously comfortably-off middle-class families, are being hit hard. After years of very few […]

On the night of 26 February, 400 Israeli settlers rampaged through the Palestinian town of Hawara in the West Bank, torching homes and cars, killing one Palestinian and wounding 280 others. Settlers were allowed to […]

The video footage of a woman, just rescued from under the rubble, pleading with ambulance workers not to take her to a private hospital went viral in Turkey, almost two weeks after two powerful earthquakes […]

An estimated 100,000 Israelis demonstrated outside the Knesset on Monday 13 February, against the legal reforms of the new ultra-right-wing nationalist government. Thousands of workers took part in what was described as a “general strike” […]

A devastating earthquake – with a magnitude of 7.7, at a relatively shallow depth -struck south-eastern Turkey in the early hours of 6th February, killing more than 11,000 people in Turkey and Syria, so far, […]

The new, far-right, ultra-nationalist Israeli government was sworn in in December 2022. It has already provoked unprecedented protests in Israel. On 14 January 80,000 took to the streets, despite threats from the internal security minister […]

World media attention briefly shone on Egypt while it hosted COP27 in November 2022. Since then, less has been said about the continuing daily struggles facing workers and youth. Falling living standards, failing public services […]

The current mass movement in Iran by women and the working class is taking place against the regime that came to power in the revolution of 1979. What lessons are there for today’s revolutionaries from […]

The revolutionary youth movement in Iran has been going on for well over two months. In these 11 weeks, more than 18,000 people have been arrested and more than 400 murdered by the regime. Now […]

For a 48-hour general strike, as the next step towards overthrowing the regime! 26 October saw the end of the 40-day mourning period after Jina (Mahsa) Amini’s death with protests taking place in 30 Iranian […]

Israel’s general election held on 1 November 1st – the fifth election in three years – saw the return of the corrupt, right-wing former prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to power. He is still facing trial […]

Those attending the COP27 United Nations climate change conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh won’t see the environment most Egyptians live in. Blue sea and sky, coral reefs, air-conditioned hotels and conference […]

Events are moving rapidly in Iran. Despite massive repression, with over 200 killed, and thousands of demonstrators, and now strikers, arrested, increasingly revolutionary protests continue to grip practically the whole of Iran. These have lasted […]

Mahsa Amini’s death has plunged Iran into turmoil. Protests and clashes have taken place in at least 85 cities and towns. Protests, often led by young women, immediately began after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman […]

Beshay steelworkers in Sadat City came out on strike on 29th August, after staging a three-day sit-in. Inflation has sharply cut their living standards. They are also paid less than other steelworkers. They are demanding […]

In a calculated provocation on the opening day of the Gaza bombings, thousands of ultra-right wingers, including Kahanist Ittamar Ben Gvir, ascended the Haram al-Sharif (the site of the Temple Mount) escorted by Israeli police […]

There is an ongoing political, economic and social crisis in Turkey. The pandemic has acted as a great accelerator, speeding up the processes that already existed. It has certainly made the situation far more difficult […]

Shock waves from the Ukraine war are being felt across the world. Its impact on food supplies and tourism is shaking the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, all of which had huge problems […]

Iran has not been at rest since the beginning of 2022. Amongst the protesters were teachers who, under the leadership of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, led a campaign of protests and […]

On 15th May, Lebanese voters went to the polls in one of the strangest elections in recent years. The unprecedented social collapse in Lebanon over the last few years was the background to this election. […]

For weeks, the horror of Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has dominated the news. Alongside this carnage, there has also been the ongoing civil war in Yemen. However, this merciless war in Yemen, and all […]

The war in Ukraine and the further twist it has given to the sharpening of international relations is, amongst other things, now seemingly blocking a conclusion to the nuclear talks in Vienna. These discussions concern […]

Today, 21 March 2022, marks the 19th anniversary of the bloody and ‘illegal’ invasion of Iraq by the US and its allies. Below are two articles on the Iraq catastrophe, written in 2020 and 2019, […]

On New Year’s Eve, Buckingham Palace announced that former Labour prime minister Tony Blair would be rewarded with the Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by the Queen. Should we be […]

Football’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is currently taking place, with millions following the tournament in the continent and worldwide. Egypt is the most successful nation in the cup’s history, winning the tournament seven times (including […]

After being without a government for almost a year, the new Lebanese government of billionaire Nijab Mikati is already beset with crises, just a few months in. There has been no respite from the ongoing […]

Having ruled Turkey for almost two decades, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is at its most vulnerable. With Turkey staggering on from one crisis to another since 2018, in a highly polarised political environment, a new […]

Workers’ rights in Egypt are harshly repressed under President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s brutal regime. There have been very few strikes in recent years. Workplace activists have been jailed, where torture is widely used. However, two large […]

While the US, British and other western governments lick their wounds following their ignoble retreat from Afghanistan, after 20 failed years of ‘nation building’, another ‘failed state’, Libya, marks ten years since the West helped […]

On the twentieth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York which took place on 11th September 2001 capitalist commentators are revisiting these historic events. The anniversary comes as US and […]

On 11 September 2001 the infamous 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on US soil prompted the then US president George W Bush and British PM Tony Blair to instigate a Western military invasion and occupation of […]

Why would a UK trade union not support a struggle against low pay and excessive workload by trade unionists in another country? In a meeting of Unison’s national executive council on 14 July, hands were […]

On 14 August, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, celebrated its 20th anniversary against a background of environmental, economic and political crisis. The wildfires that spread across […]

A year ago, a huge devastating explosion started at Beirut’s port and ended with the loss of over 200 lives, with 7,500 injured and around 300,000 people made homeless. That evening of 4 August 2020 […]

Following three days of strike action by government hospital ancillary workers, the employers have agreed to cancel the elimination of 200 posts created to handle the Covid pandemic. But there is no concrete agreement on […]

On Sunday 25th July, the president of Tunisia, Kaïs Saied, carried out a coup. This is in a country that has been labelled, “The Arab world’s only democracy”.  He sacked the prime minister, Hichem Mechichi, […]

Over the last year it seems as if just when all possible descriptions have been exhausted for the deteriorating social, economic and political crisis in Lebanon, a new downward turn in the situation develops. The […]

Almost immediately after last month’s Iranian presidential election, a national strike began in the country’s strategically important oil, gas and petrochemical sector and is still continuing. Organised from below through unofficial bodies, this strike has […]

The CWI has consistently argued that the working class is the only force that can solve the enormous social and economic capitalist crises in the Middle East, and end the occupation and repression of the […]

Ancillary staff at government hospitals in Israel are taking strike action after three years of negotiations with the ministry of finance. An agreement was not reached over the question of workloads. The finance ministry totally […]

Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president, openly described in Iran as ‘engineered’, revealed the regime’s weak popular support. The mechanics of his ‘victory’ were those of rulers fearful of the population. Facing a rising tide of […]

The eleven-day Israeli air bombardment of the Gaza Strip and retaliatory Hamas rockets fired into Israel, ended with a shaky ceasefire and both sides claiming victory. Although suffering large numbers of casualties, Hamas, the Islamist […]

The ongoing expansion of Jewish settlements and other Jewish-only infrastructure in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has been destroying Palestinian hopes of having their own state. The area that was designated to the Palestinians […]

There can be no doubt that May’s round of death and destruction in Israel-Palestine will have serious repercussions in the whole Middle East. All the questions relating to the conflict in Israel-Palestine have been thrust […]

Recent days have seen more strikes and protests by workers in Iran, more signs of the general revival of the workers’ movement there since 2017. The May Day statement (below) issued by 15 Iranian workers, […]

When a ceasefire took hold after eleven days of the war on Gaza by the Israeli military, Gaza’s traumatised population re-emerged onto the streets to survey scenes of terrible devastation. This was the fourth war […]

The turn to devastating bloodshed by the Israeli regime has followed weeks of brutal Israeli policing in and around Jerusalem’s old city, and a number of planned evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in […]

Weeks of repressive, brutal Israeli policing of Palestinian gatherings and protests in East Jerusalem have led to a new round of bloody conflict. Rather than just being confined to Jerusalem, this time the Israeli authorities […]

Weeks of repressive, brutal Israeli policing of Palestinian gatherings and protests in East Jerusalem have resulted in a new round of escalated conflict. In April, Israeli security forces erected barriers to prevent Palestinians from congregating […]

Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported on 8 May that the country’s largest sugarcane factory, Haft Tappeh, has been re-nationalised. The factory was privatised in 2015. Since then, the workers have been fighting for its […]

Over the last week, protests have re-emerged onto the streets of Lebanon. The increasing collapse of society impels the masses to challenge the continuing misrule of the sectarian establishment. Blockades of roads with burning tires […]

Even before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the Turkish economy was on the brink of collapse as the country was grappling with currency depreciation and high inflation rates since the 2018 economic crisis. The […]

Demonstrations have been continuing at Boğaziçi University since January 2021. Students and university staff are resisting the appointment of a government loyalist, Melih Bulu, as rector, by Presidential Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The reason for appointing […]

Ten years ago a mighty uprising of Egyptian workers and youth ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s brutally dictatorial regime, an event that resonated around the world. Starting on 25 January 2011, increasing numbers turned out in […]

The year 2011 began with mass protests spreading across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) which shook the ground beneath the feet of the region’s many autocratic regimes. The decades-long dictators – Ben Ali […]

Like many countries around the world, 2021 has begun with a new lockdown being implemented across Lebanon, until the end of January. This is a result of a dramatic increase in the numbers of Covid […]

Metal workers employed by a factory in Corum, Turkey, joined the United Metal Workers union to improve low wages and bad working conditions in the factory. They have been sacked by the management on trumped-up […]

On 30 October, four representatives of the Haft Tappeh Workers’ Union were arrested by the Iranian regime’s security forces and imprisoned in the Shush detention centre. The arrested workers are Ebrahim Abasi Monjezi, Yousef Bahmani, […]

After reaching a peak in August, the tensions between Turkey and Greece, both of which are members of Nato, over natural gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have now entered a new phase, with […]

Popular support for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s dictatorial regime is vanishing. Only fourteen per cent of adults took part in August’s Senate election, despite polling stations open for two days and voting is compulsory. […]

Since the beginning of August, Iran has seen more and more workers from different sectors follow the example of the Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers who went on strike on 14 June. These workers started […]

Public service workers in Turkey who were expelled in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt against the Erdogan government in July 2016 are continuing their determined resistance. Their struggle sets an example for the […]

Weekend after weekend, the official residence of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has been besieged by angry protesters demanding his resignation. The loudest chants are “Big business and government are mafia!” On 31 July, over […]

In the face of daily furious protests on the streets, one by one, Lebanon’s government ministers resigned, until the whole cabinet resigned on Monday 10 August, knowing it had no authority to continue. The government […]

The worst ever explosion in Lebanon’s history, on Tuesday in Beirut’s port, caused horrific devastation of both life and infrastructure. Over 157 people were killed, many are missing and around 5,000 injured. The whole port […]

With a strike involving thousands of Haft Tappeh sugarcane refinery workers about to enter its third month, other significant strikes began in Iran at the start of August. Some were in the oil industry where […]

Angry demonstrations have broken out all over Israel, composed of new young activists. After the first demonstrations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new plan to distribute economic aid to people. He is acting under […]

Small steps back by the regime is combined with continued repression Events are beginning to speed up in Iran again as protests increase. A brief attempt to intimidate the thousands of Haft Tappeh sugar cane […]

“Let me speak frankly. The Lebanese do not expect fruitful results from this meeting. In the view of the Lebanese people, this meeting will be like those that came before it. And after, it will […]

Since 14 June, workers at the Haft Tappeh sugar cane factory, near the Iranian city of Shush in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, have again taken strike action. Led by their independent trade union, the workers carried […]

According to the Iranian regime, towards the end of May, the number of people in Iran infected with covid-19 was over 140,000, and the number of people who have died as a result of the […]

After a pause for a little over a month with the covid-19 lockdown, new protests have erupted in Lebanon, as the situation for workers has become desperate. Unemployment has reached 30%, while hyperinflation is worsening, […]

Koronavirüs ile birlikte dünya ekonomisi 2007/8 finansal krizinden daha da derin bir krize girerken, Türkiye’deki egemen sınıf Erdoğan’ın önderliğinde krizin faturasını işçilere çıkarıyor. Hükümet, çark dönsün patronlar kar yapmaya devam etsin diye işçiler fabrikalarda, madenlerde, […]

As the world economy enters a deeper crisis than that of the financial crisis of 2007/8 with the outbreak of COVID-19, the ruling class in Turkey, led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is already […]

A new stage of the economic crisis in Lebanon was reached on Monday 9 March, as the state defaulted on a £1.2bn euro-bond – the first default in the country’s history. This debt will prove […]

Nowhere is the failure of the EU institutions to bring about genuine ‘unity’ of the continent or the arguments of pro-EU politicians more exposed than in the current refugee and migrant crisis in Greece. Thousands […]

Yemen, bordered by Saudi Arabia and Oman, is the poorest of countries in the Arab world and has been ravaged by a continuing bloody civil war. Conditions are barbaric, leading Unicef to report: “No place […]

Last year, a mass, non-sectarian protest movement in Lebanon arose over the burdens of crippling taxes, a lack of services, high unemployment, and government corruption. The daily protests and street blockades forced the resignation of […]

The recent ‘deal’ announced by US President Donald Trump, and enthusiastically endorsed by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was billed as a ‘Middle East peace plan’. But as the Economist journal wrote: “As a blueprint […]

It is almost nine years since the Nato-led military intervention in Libya, and the country is still a mess, split between conflicting forces, backed by western capitalist powers, Russia, and regional powers, Turkey and Saudi […]

The start of 2020 saw the assassination of the top Iranian general Qasem Suleimani by US forces, recklessly destabilising the Middle East region. In the immediate aftermath of Suleimani’s assassination, millions poured onto the streets […]

Build a socialist movement that can offer an alternative to the rich elite, poverty and capitalism! A wave of anger at what is seen as the regime’s lying and incompetence after the tragic downing of […]

Shockwaves went around the world, and outrage spread in the Middle East, as news broke of Trump’s unilateral decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and a key Iranian […]

Following two months of a sweeping revolt across the south of Iraq, and the capital, Baghdad, Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his resignation, after just over a year in office. His removal is seen by […]

Iran has been shaken by a new nationwide wave of anger and protests after a sudden overnight government announcement that imposed 50% fuel price rise on the cost of fuel. This measure, accompanied by a […]

One of the largest strike waves in Middle East history swept across Egypt in the years before the mighty demonstrations that erupted in Tahrir Square in January 2011, part of the ‘Arab spring’. As a […]

Recent weeks have seen major cities and entire countries around the world shaken by mass revolts. The ruling classes are challenged by populations angry and embittered by combination of threats of oppression, years of austerity, […]

The decision by US president Donald Trump to give the green light to the Turkish army to launch a land and air invasion against Kurdish-held areas in north-east Syria is now spiralling into a wider […]

After a decade as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has failed in both of two general elections this year to gain a parliamentary majority and secure a fifth term of office. These two inconclusive results […]

The following leaflet text will be distributed by Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) members at a protest in central London, this coming weekend, against the Turkish invasion of northern Syria. socialistworld.net Scores of civilians, […]

Donald Trump drew sharp criticism from high level Republican Party figures after he gave the green light for Turkey to make a long planned military attack against Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Last Sunday, the […]

Street protests in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities broke out on Friday and Saturday 20/21 September. Although only involving dozens or a few hundreds, at first, they grew in numbers and spread to other […]

The drone missile attacks on two oil installations in Saudi Arabia, on 14 September, threw more incendiary material into the volatility and instability of the Middle East. The world’s biggest crude oil processing plant was […]

Mass protests blocked roads across Israel after the killing of 19 year old Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah by an off-duty police officer in the Kiryat Haim area of Haifa on 30 June.

Voters in Istanbul on 23 June struck a big blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the authoritarian leader of Turkey, amid a deepening economic crisis. This is the first time in Erdogan’s 17-year rule that […]

The apparent last minute cancellation by Donald Trump of US military retaliation – after Iran shot down an unmanned surveillance drone – has not significantly lessened the chances of new military clashes given the continuing […]

Egypt’s authoritarian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has attempted to strengthen his powers with a rigged referendum campaign lasting 72 hours! The tame Parliament approved his proposals – 485 MPs out of 596 voting for them […]

The First World War was ended, in large part, by the Russian and German revolutions. Revolutionary uprisings followed in many other countries thrown into turmoil by the war. In March and April 1919, revolution shook […]

Forty years ago, a great revolution against a dictatorial monarchy was in progress in Iran. Recalling the heroic scenes of those days still inspires us; scenes of comradeship despite the shortage of goods and fuel […]

The Iranian regime has once again arrested Esmail Bakhshi, the representative of the Haft-Tapeh sugar cane agro-industry workers, and an activist Sepideh Qolian.

After telling civil servants that they would not be getting a pay rise, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked, “Do you want to build your country … or are you going to look for potatoes?”

The Iranian regime arrested around 30 steel workers in Ahvaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan Province. This happened on 36th day of a workers’ strike and walkout over unpaid wages.

This article was published on the day of a recent ‘women’s strike’ in Israel to protest femicide and violence against women, and before a mass rally of 30,000 people took place in Tel Aviv. Socialist […]

The Iranian economy is in downfall, and Iranian working class is the main target of this slump. Prices of staples are increasing day by day. The regime has only delivered empty words, and its explanation […]

Over 160 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2018’ event hosted in Tel Aviv by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) on 27 – 29 September. Among the participants were workers and youth, trade unionists and […]

Interview with Ahmed Ali Al-Qidani, on behalf of the Total Gas Labour Union of Yemen

■ Despite government-backed incitement, tens of thousands of Jews and Arabs march in the center of Tel Aviv to protest against the new law  ■ The accusation of a ‘Palestinian flag scandal’ is part of […]

• Rabin Square was filled again, this time as part of the ‘Druze rally’ against the Nationality Law • This was another blow to the government, despite the fact that the organisers also promoted right-wing […]

This was one of the most important demonstrations organized in Israel in recent years. The fact that all six parties in the Netanyahu coalition government all oppose full equality to LGBT people has not prevented […]

Week by week, the acute economic crisis in Iran is bringing new social groups in confrontation with the regime. Six months ago, the poor people, unemployed and disillusioned youth in tens of small and peripheral towns […]

The Iranian regime has started harassing and prosecuting university students because of their participation in nationwide January protests alongside workers and the poor. On 18 June, Tehran University students staged a rally against the security […]

Three months after the December-January protests that shook the country, Iran is still a smouldering fire. Despite killing dozens of protesters and the arrest of thousands, the regime has not been able to push back […]

A general strike and huge demonstrations of an unprecedented scale have shaken the Jordanian kingdom, against the backdrop of a steep rise in the cost of living and government corruption. The struggle has succeeded in […]

Young Palestinian medic shot dead while giving first aid to wounded protesters

The following piece is an eyewitness report written by Gazan activist and author Rana Shubair, at the request of ‘Socialist Struggle Movement’ (SSM), the CWI section in Israel-Palestine. The article is followed by two videos. […]

While in Jerusalem a messianic inauguration ceremony was held at American embassy, in the Gaza Strip the day of the embassy’s transfer was the deadliest day since the war in 2014. The Netanyahu government, hand-in-hand […]

The Gaza Strip in recent weeks has seen one of the most important waves of Palestinian protests against the ongoing brutal siege enforced by Israel, in collaboration with Egypt, with unbearable consequences for living conditions.

Around the world people have watched in horror at the unfolding violence perpetrated by the Israeli state against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Sixty were killed on 14 May alone, during protests against the moving of […]

There exists no reliable, empirical evidence to support the motion that there is a higher prevalence of anti-Semitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party.” This is not from an editorial in […]

Socialists fight for Palestinian liberation and workers’ unity

For an independent inquiry into the killings Lift the siege, end the Israeli occupation! For a socialist solution to the national question

Here we reproduce word-for-word the editorial from the issue of the Socialist printed on 28 March 2003, the issue of our weekly paper that came out directly after US and UK troops were sent into […]

Egypt’s presidential election on 26-28 March will be as farcical as the elections held during former president Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Just two candidates are standing; the current President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and the leader of […]

Mass protests in December and January shook Iran’s reactionary regime to the core. Although facing severe repression, they signal a new confidence and preparedness by workers and young people to fight for their rights, in […]

The Turkish state is bombarding Kurds in Afrin, using bombing and a ground invasion. This follows devastating attacks on Kurdish areas in Turkey in 2016, when President Erdogan ended a ‘peace process’ and started a […]

Government and army punish the women of the Tamimi family; awake a wave of international solidarity and support.

On January 5th, independent trade unions in Iran issued a statement in support of the mass protests against austerity and dictatorship that began at the end of last year. The statement was issued in the […]

Significantly Iran’s nationwide demonstrations began in Mashhad – the second biggest city – where many now bankrupt financial institutions were based and whose collapse already provoked protests across the country.

Sudden largescale nationwide protests have shaken Iran. Sections of the masses have shown utter defiance of the regime. Youth, facing unemployment estimated to be between 25% and 40%, have particularly been to the fore. The […]

 Trump’s declaration of unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, while ignoring the right of the Palestinians for a state with a capital in Jerusalem, ignited a wave of protest around the world, and already […]

The horrific killing of 305 people at Friday prayers in the al-Rawdah mosque, Bir al-Abd on Friday 24th November is the worst single attack in Egypt’s Sinai region. 27 children were among those killed. Over […]

On Saturday 11 November Mahmoud Salehi, a jailed and seriously ill Iranian trade unionist, was moved back to Saqqez prison from the Khomeini Hospital in Saqqez, despite the pleas of his family. Mahmoud Salehi, 55, […]

In just a few weeks the situation for Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan has gone from euphoria to anger and fear.

On 19 and 20 September, Arak, an Iranian industrial city 170 miles from the capital, Tehran, was the scene of a strike, pickets and clashes between workers from two major factories in the city, Azarab […]

On September 25, the Kurdistan region of Iraq (Southern Kurdistan) is set to hold a referendum on independence. Various regional and international powers have made clear their staunch objection to such a move, and Iraq’s […]

“A zigzag that cannot be explained”. That’s how the right wing Israeli commentator Amit Segal summarized Netanyahu’s decisions regarding the change of the security and entrance arrangements to the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem. […]

Iran’s presidential election on 19 May saw, as we predicted, Hassan Rouhani was re-elected with 22 million votes, according to the regime’s figures. His conservative rival won around 16 million, while more than 17 million […]

The horrific 26 May attack on a coach carrying Coptic Christians, including many children, is the latest in a series of bloody attacks on Egypt’s Copts. The coach, and accompanying vehicles with workers going to […]

The “Strike of Freedom and Honour” is the name given to a mass hunger strike of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which started indefinitely on the Palestinian Prisoner Day, 17 April. The prisoners […]

Peshraw Mohammed is a leading activist from the Socialist Review Centre in Iraqi-Kurdistan, and is currently a refugee in Germany. Sascha Staničić from the SAV spoke to him about the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan. Western […]

Protests around the world on March 31 showed solidarity with Yemeni workers, victims of exploitation and gangsterism by TOTAL and G4S.

Falling support for dictator Sisi portends growing opposition. Egyptian workers and middle classes have been hit hard by prices almost 30 percent higher in January than a year earlier. But after a period of few strikes […]

Solidarity spreads for victims of wage robbery and killing by multinational corporations. On Friday, February 17, several sections and supporters of the CWI took part in protests against the French energy company TOTAL, for its role […]

Security workers demand wages and arrest of colleagues’ killers. Yesterday, Monday 6 February, around one hundred workers demonstrated in front of the parliament buildings, in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. They were demanding unpaid wages and […]

Crisis continues; infighting escalates

Teachers fighting poverty wages and leaders’ imprisonment

A life spent strengthening big capital, militarism and national oppression of Palestinians

Imperialist intervention helped wreck revolutionary movement and ruin Libya

Published earlier this year before the Chilcot report was finally released, Blood Year by counter-insurgency strategist David Kilcullen is a damning indictment of the so-called war on terror unleased by US imperialism in 2001, with […]

Imperialist solutions are no solution at all. Next month will mark the second anniversary of US-led “Operation Inherent Resolve” against ISIS/Daesh in Iraq and Syria. US President Barack Obama recently boasted about the successes of this […]

Rebuilding Workers’ and youth struggles

Iranian workers need solidarity

Working classes, through bitterest of experiences, will take to road of mass struggle again

Review of "The Egyptians: a radical story"

The necessity of a class approach and a socialist alternative

Statement by Jafar Azimzadeh, a leader of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, and Esmail Abdi, a leader of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association

Two articles on the current situation in Turkey and Kurdistan

The “Arab Spring” revolutionary wave brought dictators in Tunisia and Egypt crashing down. It swept through the Middle East, inspiring workers and youth the world over. It has since ebbed, however, leaving the region wracked […]

Israeli and Palestinian activists discuss resisting Nentanyahu and urgent need to build socialist forces

Looming civil war can only be countered by a united struggle of working people

Workers’ struggles continue despite repression

Farcical election underlines need to build a mass workers’ party

The crisis of “management of the conflict”

A new book offers important insights into the role played by Middle Eastern states in the rise of brutal reactionary forces such as Islamic State. What’s missing, however, is an assessment of the potential of […]

Still no end in sight after four and a half years of civil war

Independent workers’ organisation needed to resist state repression and to fight for a socialist future

Build a united struggle of workers and youth – for a socialist alternative to communal divisions, poverty and war!

Articles on Öcalan’s ideas and Rojava, originally published in sozialismus.info, the quaterly magazine of SAV (German section of the CWI)

Interview with Tamer Mahdi, CWI member in Lebanon

’Unfinished business’ remains today

No faith in authoritarian rulers and Western powers!

Life and death struggle with the process of counter-revolution.

Recent strikes show workers will resist

United working class movement needed to sweep away sectarian militias and reactionary politicians

In aftermath of disastrous Iraq occupation, Obama administration balancing between region’s forces

For unity of workers and poor against imperialism and sectarianism

New coalition will face unresolved crises and bitter struggles

Increasing demands for a living wage

Libyan people bearing the brunt of NATO’s fiasco

Masses will regain confidence and willingness to fight

Will the end of Kobanê’s siege turn the tide against IS?

Atrocious human rights records no concern for Western powers

International action needed to overturn latest conviction and to immediately release Behnam

Over 150 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2014’ in Tel Aviv, organised by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM – CWI in Israel-Palestine)

New rounds of repression answered by new wave of rage and protest

What does US military ‘assistance’ mean for the Kurdish struggle?

For democratic working people’s defence and mass struggle against capitalism

No justice for Palestinians and no peace for the region – For a socialist solution!

Regional war poses new challenges for struggle for Kurdish self-determination

Protest against Iranian government’s brutal sentences!

Support jailed labour activist’s demands against critical dentention conditions

Demand the release of the arrested workers!

Iraqis and Kurds must not trust imperialist ‘helpers’

Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other countries

Socialist councillor denounces Israeli state terror

What is the role of imperialism in the conflict?

Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) Former MEP and parliamentary bye-election candidate speaks to thousands protesting against Israeli state terrorism

Mass action needed to stop bloodshed

Mass action needed to end the slaughter and blockade!

Over 100 Gazans have been killed in one week, including 20 children

Extracts and updates from a series of articles on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, the Israel-Palestine section of the CWI.

Only organised, united working class can end war and social misery

Israeli nationalist thugs cowardly attacked Socialist Struggle Movement activists after the protest

Escalating sectarian conflict threatens to draw in surrounding countries

Three years after January 25th revolution, workers need independent unions and a workers’ party

Government replaced

Growing discontent in society generates interest in socialist ideas

Anti-democratic legislation criminalizing asylum seekers provokes strikes and mass protests

More workers and youth will conclude working class must raise own independent interests

The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died

Independent workers’ organisation and socialist programme needed

Strong unions needed to stop worker exploitation ahead of 2022 World Cup finals

But anti-war campaigning must be maintained; No to imperialist intervention!

No to imperialist intervention!

Abolish the Prawer-Begin plan! Stop racist discrimination

Need to build an independent workers’ movement to confront terror, sectarianism and poverty

Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed

An independent, working class leadership needed. It is two and a half years ago when the ‘Arab Spring’ began – a series of events which have radically transformed the Middle East, reported Serge Jordan introducing the […]

Bloody repression can be turned against striking workers and youth

[UPDATED VERSION OF “Egypt: Morsi removed – No trust in the generals” ON 10 JULY]

For independent action by workers and poor

No to the generals’ intervention! For a workers’ government!

Khamenie and Rouhani are riding a tiger

Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign

Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background of deep divisions in society and the regime.

How can a state be realised?

On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.

SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles against austerity

On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad.

Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of "negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.

No trust in any capitalist political factions! For mass struggle around workers’ demands!

Imperialism’s harvest of death and destruction

Yesterday, Shimon Peres, the Israeli President, was met by protests as he visited Strasbourg to address the European Parliament

Workers’ unity against big business shows potential for anti-sectarian, socialist alternative

Sadece örgütlü işçi sınıfı bir çıkış yolu sunabilir

Despite bravery and determination, life for mass of workers and poor not improved – A second, ‘socialist’ revolution is needed!

Interview with Yasha Marmer, a leading member of the Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel-Palestine)

Regime squeezed between workers’ opposition to austerity and ruling class

Socialist revolutionary change needed!

Brutal attacks against opposition activists shows need for independent mass workers’ movement

Act now to stop the crackdown of the new Morsi regime

Democratic, trade union and women’s rights under attack

During the Israeli government’s eight days of brutal assault on the Gaza strip, over 163 Palestinians were killed, 1,235 wounded and the entire 1.7 million population of the strip traumatised.

Working class needs its own independent party

"Lasting peace will only be achieved when there is an end to the national oppression of the Palestinian people"

Cuts in fuel subsidies provoke mass eruption from below

Stop Israeli state terror!

Kapitalist İsrail hükümetinin savaşına hayır!

Defeat the desperate election offensive of Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak

If demands of working people to be realised, it is necessary to be self-organised with clear aims

A strike on 3 October prevented the daily newspaper from being published the next morning. Workers fight back against lay-offs and cuts.

Protests and strikes by thousands shake the West Bank

What began 18 months ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad is on its way to becoming a full-blown civil war that could spread around the region.

Wave of strikes and occupations as workers fight for real improvements

Syria’s agony continues unabated.

Teachers and other workers demand new pay scales

Working masses need independent policies and their own party

Escalation in struggle for power between old regime and Muslim Brotherhood

The Left and the second-round Presidential elections

Workers fighting back request solidarity and support

In struggle against brutal Assad regime, working class must oppose sectarianism and imperialist intervention

Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Mubarak candidates face second round run off

Build fighting, democratic trade unions!

For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative

Tehran’s bus drivers’ union leader sentenced to 6 years in prison

International solidarity campaign forces university authorities to back-down

Protest against new attack on workers’ rights

Campaign for a democratic students’ union goes on – Send protests now!

Western powers step up sanctions and military threats against Tehran

MEP Paul Murphy raises the need for the Egyptian masses to take political and economic power out of the hands of the ruling elite and military

No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers

74 killed in horrific scenes

The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements

Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali

Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule

As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom