Syria

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Suweida under fire: Sectarianism and the consolidation of power in Damascus

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.
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HTS’ strategy to consolidate its power in Syria

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.
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Syria: Sharaa’s authoritarian centralisation stumbles in Suweida

Sharaa’s gamble on centralising Syria by force rather than democratic consensus building gets a deadly reality check in Suweida, writes Joseph Daher.
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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.
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[Updated] ‘A serious threat to civil peace and national unity’: Statements from Rojava on sectarian violence in As-Suwayda

Statements by the Syrian Democratic Council, the Democratic Union Party and the Women’s Protection Units on violence in Suwayda.
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As-Suwayda bleeds anew: Sectarian hatred as a weapon to divide the Syrian people

Revolutionary Left Current — The neo-colonial authority seeks to subjugate As-Suwayda, whose people demand democracy, equality and freedom for all Syrians.
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Arab elites welcome Trump as massacres in Gaza continue

Sushovan Dhar — As Israel’s war continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves with welcoming Trump and signing multimillion-dollar trade agreements.
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‘A politically conscious Kurdish society is emerging’

Engin Sustam says that the Kurdish movement is no longer just an organization but an international people’s movement rooted in socialism.
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The Syrian conflict is not yet over: Assad has fallen, but the revolution hasn’t won

Yassin al-Haj Saleh — The enormity of Assad’s fall is one thing; claiming the revolution has triumphed is another.
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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.
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‘HTS rejects Syria’s social mosaic, thus obstructing any path toward a democratic, pluralistic future’

Women's Defense Units — In response to the massacres committed against our Syrian people, our greatest act of resistance will be to embrace legitimate self-defense and realize a democratic Syria that welcomes all peoples.
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Syria: Building an anticapitalist economy in Rojava

Azize Aslan discusses the economic order and class relations in Rojava (North and East Syria) and the role class struggle plays in the revolution.

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