Middle East & North Africa

The following CWI leaflet was distributed in Arabic in Beirut on Mayday

But trade union leadership collude with the bosses to stab workers in the back

Alarm bells have been ringing, left and right. John Pilger, the radical journalist, wrote an article, Iran: The War Begins (New Statesman, 3 February), warning that a US air attack on Iran was imminent.

Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.

Ruling elite fear social explosions

Only workers’ unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out

Protest carried on national TV

Histadrut union federation takes membership dues but ignore struggle

Working people demand: “Let us live!”

Union leaders hand over initiative to opposition parties

"The most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush’s latest revised Iraq strategy. Hagel, however, is not only a Vietnam […]

Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism

Frankenstein kills out of control monster

Hizbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) have planned mass street demonstrations for this week in opposition to Prime Minister Siniora and his weakened, imperialist-supported, March 14th or Future movement government.

Pro-western Siniora government hangs on by its fingertips

“He doth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus; and we petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about”. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Bush, decked out as a poor imitation of a modern ‘Caesar’, […]

New workers’ party necessary to fight back

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign

In less than a week the Bush and Blair administrations have been forced into humiliating public retreats over their Iraq policy.

"From this day on, there is no government anymore!"

A socialist analysis and a socialist alternative

Only international working class can end conflicts

Only workers’ unity can show a way out of war and poverty. Part Two

Limits of Israeli military power exposed. Part One

August 6 saw 4,000 people take to the streets of Chamchamal, a Kurdish city in northern Iraq, in protest against the huge increase in fuel prices and the lack of water and electric.

After nearly a month of carpet bombing the country, by air, sea and land, the enormous sound of the Israeli war planes is now sinking into the background with noises of people trying to go […]

As Israeli missiles continued to bombard Lebanon, an immediate ceasefire was demanded by an emergency demonstration of 100,000 people in London on 5 August.

’The politicians and generals are dragging us into the quagmire’

There has been rage and revulsion worldwide at the barbaric treatment by Israeli forces of innocent families in Lebanon fleeing in terror.

Consequences of war and poverty will lead to future protests

Workers are paying the price

Imperialism gives full support to Israel capitalism, its ally in the region

Hatred of imperialist oppression climbs to new levels

Tension rises over demand for release of Palestinian prisoners

Palestinians recently interviewed in the press described their life in Gaza and the West Bank as like "living on the set of a horror film".

Workers need a party of their own!

Protests in Brussels and Amsterdam

Is Iraq really sliding into a sectarian civil war? And if so, is it a divide and rule tactic of imperialism?

US imperialism threatens

Washington hawks aim to remove Iranian regime

Sectarian militias on the streets as US imperialism’s disastrous policies are exposed

High stakes in nuclear conflict

Some released, new arrests, hundreds detained

More protests planned

Appeal for international solidarity

Hamas victory a blow to imperialism and capitalism in the Middle East

Weeks after elections in Iraq (15 December), the result is still awaited.

Crisis shows imperialist powers’ hypocrisy