Iran
Iran: Will Bush bomb Iran?
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.
Middle East & North Africa
Syria
women: Kurdish women in Syria have a hard fight
Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.
Egypt
Egypt: Strike wave shakes regime
Ruling elite fear social explosions
Iraq
Iraq: ‘Surge’ doomed to failure
Only workers’ unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Contract postal workers storm Histadruth union HQ
Protest carried on national TV
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Contract postal workers demand permanent job status
Histadrut union federation takes membership dues but ignore struggle
Lebanon
Lebanon: Bus bombings heighten tensions before pro-government rally
Working people demand: “Let us live!”
Lebanon
Lebanon: Sectarian clashes arise from political divisions
Union leaders hand over initiative to opposition parties
Iraq
Iraq: Bush continues his dangerous blunder
"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 […]
Lebanon
Lebanon: Unions call for mass action against government cuts
Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism