Middle East

Shir Hever — Since its founding, Israel’s market for weapons has developed in tandem with its war objectives.

Behnam Amini — A principled anti-imperialism must centre on working-class political interests, as well as the interests of oppressed and minoritized social groups.

Samirah Jarrar outlines the need to move beyond a humanitarian framework of Palestinian health to envision a politics of care rooted in justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.

Like other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran’s troubled relations with the US and Israel — and with Iranian Kurds — have their roots in imperialism, writes Sarah Glynn.

Nasrin Parvaz discusses the fallout of the recent US-Israeli war on Iran and the Islamic regime’s response.

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.

Araz Bağban — In their desire to push back imperialism, some leftists ignore everything else, including the right of 90 million Iranians to determine their own destiny.

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.

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.

Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.

Sharaa’s gamble on centralising Syria by force rather than democratic consensus building gets a deadly reality check in Suweida, writes Joseph Daher.