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Geopolitics, the imperial system and socialist anti-imperialism: Interview with Claudio Katz
Claudio Katz talks about the need to avoid looking at imperialism in purely economic terms, the rise of what he terms an “imperial system” and the complexities of anti-imperialism in the 21st century.
US policy in Syria: Confused or just confusing?
 
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By Tony Iltis

February 27, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, the US has been involved, at first, through arming and supporting groups opposing the dictatorship of Bashar Assad, and supporting allies in the region doing likewise; and since 2014, through its direct involvement in leading an international coalition in an air war against ISIS.

Small numbers of US Special Forces and CIA operatives are also in Syria, supporting different, mutually antagonistic groups in the multi-sided conflict.

The US role in Syria often appears confused and contradictory. This seems set to increase under the new US administration.

Erdogan, the coup in Turkey and the global counter-revolution
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By Santiago Alba Rico, translated from Cuarto Poder by Sean Seymour-Jones August 4, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — What many of us feared on the night of July 15 has occurred in the most sombre way possible. If a victorious coup in Turkey would have been terrible, its failure looks set to be no less so. In barely a week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has detained or purged more than 40,000 public officials: army officers, police, judges, teachers, and journalists. He has declared a state of emergency for three months - which can be extended indefinitely - and has suspended the European Convention of Human Rights, which could open the way – as the government has already insinuated - to the reestablishment of the death penalty and, in any case, normalise repression against all forms of opposition, particularly against the Gulenist forces and the Kurds, who have once again, following the reinitiating of the military conflict a year ago, been converted into the “internal enemy”. In short, to stop or avenge a coup - real and manipulated - Erdogan and his party have at the same time carried out a coup.
Saudi Arabia’s lesser known exports after oil: Wahhabism and pro-imperialism
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Middle East: Saudi Arabia's US-backed war on Yemen
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Adam Hanieh: Power, wealth and inequality in the Arab world
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Adam Hanieh: Gulf states, neoliberalism and liberation in the Middle East
Syrian rebels overwhelmingly condemn US bombing as an attack on revolution
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Israel and the coming Arab revolution
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Iraq and Syria: The struggle against the 'multi-sided' counterrevolution
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The Gulf and Islamism in Syria: myths and misconceptions
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Understanding the Arab rebellions: Adam Hanieh's 'Lineages of revolt'
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