Middle East & North Africa

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

Without the Israeli government being willing to grant this basic right of self-determination, the talks will remain a charade.

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 […]

For mass struggle from below, major protests, strike action, marches on checkpoints – "This is what I think is absolutely needed now."

Bloody repression can be turned against striking workers and youth

The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor!

[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

What is the way forward for women’s struggle for liberation?

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

Only the organized working class can show a way forward

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 Wael Towfeek, socialist activist in Cairo

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 workers’ alternative is urgently needed!

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.