Videos – Iraq, Syria & Kurdistan between reaction and revolution
Socialist Resistance hosted a public meeting in London on November 25th with Gilbert Achcar a Lebanese academic, writer, socialist and anti-war activist, Sarah Parker who has been very active in...
View ArticleNumerous guilty actors for Aylan and the million of others…
Joseph Daher Europe has been rocked in recent weeks by two successive tragedies that have shaken public opinion. Firstly, on August 28, the bodies of 71 people, probably Syrian, were found in an...
View ArticleThe Islamic State, or the main reason for the millions of refugees from Syria?
Joseph Daher challenges what is being said about Syria: The vast majority of television programs, articles and so called experts talking about millions of refugees from Syria have the same discourse:...
View ArticleSyria: Stop the bombing – Assad must go
Fred Leplat, a supporter of Socialist Resistance and of the Syria Solidarity Movement, reviews the situation in Syria as Putin intervenes in Syria. The war in Syria took a dramatic turn on the 7th...
View ArticleWhat does Russia want in its war in Syria?
Gilbert Achcar, Lebanese socialist and anti-war activist, spoke with Ilya Budraitskis, an activist in the Russian Socialist Movement and member of the OpenLeft.Ru editorial board, about why Russia is...
View ArticleThe 13 November attacks in Paris: the terror of the Islamic State, the state...
By Pierre Rousset and François Sabado Solidarity with the victims! November 13 represents a change in the national and international political situation. The Islamic State (IS, Daesh) has struck again;...
View ArticleGilbert Achcar on Russian, British, American, Saudi and Iranian intervention...
In this pugnacious interview on Russia Today, Gilbert Achcar explains how Russian support is crucial to keeping the butcher Assad in power. He’s equally forthright about the role of American, British...
View ArticleAgainst dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh.
We fight dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh. We reject the politics of “national security”, racism and austerity. It’s time to mobilise! Over recent months, people across the Middle East...
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Russia targets Syrian hospitals on Xmas day
In an extremely worrying escalation of their incessant bombing campaign, Russian war planes struck a number of medical facilities, in a series of deliberate attacks. From around 09:00am on 25th...
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Stop the bombings and the sieges in Syria, support the Syrian people !
This statement was approved by the closing rally of the youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International on 30th July in Cannoves, Catalonia in the Spanish state. More than 350 participants from...
View ArticleThe Syrian Truce and Obama’s Exit Strategy
Gilbert Achcar argues that without an agreement for Assad to step down and allow a transition toward a pluralist government, no cease-fire stands a chance. The Syrian Truce and Obama’s Exit Strategy...
View ArticleSyria – calling for an end to intervention is not nearly enough
The ceasefire in Syria concluded on September 9, 2016 between the US and Russia came to an end on September 19 at 7pm. It was a total failure politically, military and in humanitarian terms, writes...
View ArticleGilbert Achcar: Syria – what prospects for peace?
A packed meeting organised by Socialist Resistance in London on Tuesday 18 October heard Gilbert Achcar analyse the situation in Syria and Mohamed Najjar, of Syria Peace and Justice, talk about the...
View ArticleAleppo: Assad’s barbarism
Fred Leplat writes about the barbarism unleashed by Assad on the people of eastern Aleppo. Bashar al-Assad is in the last stages of the military annihilation of eastern Aleppo. It is no liberation but...
View ArticleWe must understand Syria as a popular struggle despite its complications
Joseph Daher reports: The popular uprising in Syria approaches its sixth year, but the debate among the networks, associations, political parties, and individuals that make up the political left is...
View ArticleSyria: Trump’s military adventurism under way
Phil Hearse on Trump’s attack on Syria The Assad government’s April 4 chemical weapon attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, which killed more than 100 people, once again demonstrated the...
View ArticleSolidarity with Afrin, al-Ghouta, Idlib against all military attacks
We republish here a statement from the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists on the military attacks taking place against the popular movements in Syria. We also refer readers to this statement from...
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Syria: the war is far from over
Gilbert Achcar met with Syrian Corner during Syria Awareness Week in February 2018 at SOAS. Achcar posits that the Syrian conflict is far from over and that for Bashar al-Assad to establish a new...
View ArticleSolidarity with Afrin
Socialist Resistance is proud to stand in solidarity with the Kurdish people in their struggle for self determination and against the repressive behaviour of all the reactionary regimes in the region –...
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