Gilbert Achcar
Gaza after October 7: A bitter account two years into the catastrophe
Gilbert Achcar provides an account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome.
Gilbert Achcar — Trump’s new plan is even less realistic than the one he unveiled five years ago.
Gilbert Achcar — Western governments’ support for the Zionist genocidal war in Gaza has been part of a gradual banalization of the far right by the “centrists”.
Neofascism, imperialism, war and revolution in the Middle East
Gilbert Achcar — US imperialism is far from dead. Instead, what we have is a mutation of US imperialism, which began not with Trump, but with Biden and the war in Gaza.
The mirage of a Palestinian state
Gilbert Achcar — Countries recognizing a hypothetical “State of Palestine” is symbolically positive. But under present conditions, it can't be more than a renewed version of the vast prison the Zionist state confines Palestinian people in.
‘Atlanticist liberalism can never recover from its present agony’
Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.
Syria and the dangers of playing with fire
Gilbert Achcar on the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Druze-majority Suwayda Governorate and the prospects of post-Assad Syria.
Trump, Netanyahu and the reordering of the Middle East
Gilbert Achcar — Despite all the evidence to the contrary, too many commentators continue to portray Trump as eager for a peaceful settlement to the war in Gaza.
Gilbert Achcar — What is driving neofascist movements to question, to varying degrees, the reality of climate change?
In support of ‘synchronized global disarmament’
Gilbert Achcar discusses ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.
Gilbert Achcar: ‘For the neofascists, the law of the jungle is the only one that makes sense’
Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture.
Turkey and the neofascist contagion
Gilbert Achcar — The events unfolding in Turkey since last Wednesday are extremely serious: they constitute a new and very dangerous step in the country’s slide towards the suffocation of democracy.