Zabalaza for Socialism — Without rebuilding solidarity and addressing the root causes of this collapse, South Africa risks descending further into chaos, where survival is marked by despair and violence.
Won Youngsu — Eleven historic days of popular struggle between President Yoon’s failed self-coup and his impeachment sealed his fate. Yoon’s impeachment represents a tremendous triumph of people power.
Shaun Whittaker & Harry Boesak — The manipulation of the ballot papers made the rigging of the Namibian elections subtle and largely invisible. But the elections were clearly not credible and must be declared as invalid as soon as possible.
Scratching the seven-year itch: Iceland votes to change government
Luke Field — Iceland’s November 30 elections saw the centre-left Social Democratic Alliance returned as the largest party for the first time since 2009, but no other left-leaning parties won any seats in what is a more consolidated and right-leaning parliament.
Syria’s popular revolution and the extraordinary collapse of Assad’s genocidal regime
Michael Karadjis — There will be many struggles ahead, but for now Syrians are celebrating one of the most decisive and popular revolutions ever.
Syria: The fall of the regime, the future of the country and Turkey’s war on the Kurds
Dave Holmes — The extremely rapid and unexpected fall of Syria’s Assad dictatorship is a political earthquake in the Middle East.
The collapse of the Assad regime: An interview on Syria with Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar explains the sudden collapse of the Syrian regime.
Syria after Assad: Hope and uncertainty
Bulent Gokay & Vassilis K. Fouskas — Amid the significant and rapid transformation unfolding in Syria, two sub-imperial powers, Israel and Turkey, are seeking to redesign the region.
Cihan Tuğal — Though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the time being, fantasies about a Turkish imperial restructuring of the region are unfounded.
South Korea: Yoon’s impeachment is a win for people’s power
Won Youngsu — Yoon’s self-coup showed the inherent weakness of South Korea’s institutional democracy. His impeachment demonstrated the robust resilience of people’s grassroots democracy.
South Korea: People’s power on verge of victory as President Yoon set to be impeached
Won Youngsu — President Yoon has shown himself to be an enemy of South Korea’s democracy. But it appears that another candlelight revolution will triumph to save democracy.
From Syria to Palestine, liberation comes from below
Joseph Daher explains why the Assad regime's toppling in Syria is important to liberation efforts across the region, especially for the Palestinian struggle.