Turkey
Kurds mobilise to fight ‘Islamic State’ over vast front
Kurdish YPG fighters, Rojava.
By Dave Holmes
The Gulf and Islamism in Syria: myths and misconceptions
ISIS fighters.
Nigeria: Africa’s number one economy -- for wealth evaporation
In 2012, neoliberalism catalysed a nati
Turkey: The Gezi uprising and the renewal of the left
Ender Imrek.
By I. Zekeriya Ayman
Dissent and politics: Assembling resistance in Turkey
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The football supporter group "Çarşı" from Beşiktaş entering Gezi Park.
By I. Zekeriya Ayman
June 2, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly -- When the humble “Occupy Gezi” (Occupy Promenade Park) protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square was brutally attacked on May 31 by police and spread like wildfire throughout Istanbul and into other cities, the Turkey’s left was in the thick of it.
M.N. Roy.
[For more articles by John Riddell, click HERE; for more on the Communist International, click HERE.]
By John Riddell
September 25, 2012 -- Johnriddell.wordpress, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- The newly published proceedings of the Communist International’s Fourth Congress, Toward the United Front, makes it possible for any socialist activist or independent researcher to make the acquaintance of a wide spectrum of revolutionaries of the 1920s, both prominent and obscure.[1] No guide or interpreter is needed.
Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK and the Kurdish struggle
Prison writings: The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century
Egypt: The danger to the revolution comes from Washington
Protesters stand in front of grafitti calling on the US government to stay out of Egypt's affairs, February 2, 2011. Photo by Matthew Cassel.
By Ali Abunimah
February 6, 2011 -- The Electronic Intifada -- The greatest danger to the Egyptian revolution and the prospects for a free and independent Egypt emanates not from the baltagiyya -- the mercenaries and thugs the regime sent to beat, stone, stab, shoot and kill protesters in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities in early February -- but from Washington.