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1. What’s new on Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

   Syria and the rise of the Kurdish-led People’s Democratic Party in Turkey. Dirik argues that “the people ... to the people in Syria by the system (the status quo embodied by Assad’s dictatorship or a regime ...

2. Behind Donald Trump’s dangerous sabre-rattling

   steadily expanding NATO up to Russia’s borders in Europe. She also proposed challenging Russia in Syria ... . With the US’s April 6 cruise missile strike on Syria, Trump has adopted Clinton’s position. The strike ... cruise missile attack against Syria. The implicit threat was clear. Subsequently, Trump has publically ...

3. Turkey’s political prisoners at risk from COVID-19

   sentence. Audio: Political and cultural repression in Turkey — Interview with left MP War-torn Syria faces ...

4. Trump's ‘war on terror’ as barbaric as he promised

   Trump has said an April 4 chemical weapon attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib province that killed ... Data  compiled by the site Airwars  tells the story: The number of civilians killed in Syria and Iraq ... 500 ground troops into Syria beyond  the troops Obama already deployed  there, has received remarkably ...

5. Kurds under attack at film screening

   across Northern Syria. Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, when conflict created a vacuum of ... by Turkey and its jihadist allies inside Syria. The heroic defence of the town of Kobane in 2014–15 ... Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. This canton, geographically isolated from the rest of the DFNS and ...

6. Gunboat diplomacy in the Persian Gulf

   the British government, it was suspected of transporting Iranian oil to Syria, in defiance of European ... was allegedly on its way to Syria. It was captured by Royal Marines — according to the Spanish foreign ... minister at the behest of the US — accused of breaking EU sanctions on Syria. This can hardly have been ...

7. Australia spent $10 billion on US weapons

   report estimated about half the money was spent supporting Australian Defence Force activity in Syria and ...

8. Police-state governance and the civil liberties of an MP

   right now in Australia. That sounds like life in Belarus, Russia, China, Iran, Bashar al-Assad’s Syria ...

9. Women’s cooperatives: A glimpse into Rojava’s economic model

   Rojava Amid the horrors of Syria’s multi-sided civil war, a ray of hope has broken out in the north. Led ... Forces to struggle for a new Syria based on the Rojava Revolution’s principles. In the article below ... economic problems. The cantons within the Democratic Federation in Rojava and North Syria have economies ...

10. Turkey: Opposition wins Istanbul election

    parts of northern Syria and northern Iraq. The HDP did not run its own candidate in the Istanbul ...

11. Kurdish revolutionary: 'We are showing the strength of women'

    Giuliana Sgrena One year ago, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began its brutal assault on the ... city of Kobane in the largely Kurdish region of Rojava in the north of Syria. The violent fanatics were ... army. She is unmarried, as is demanded of all Kurdish fighters, men and women. Since Syria's war ...

12. New book gives inspiring account of Rojava’s revolutionary bid for autonomy and women’s liberation

    $38.95 Rojava, which is Kurdish for the “west”, is to be found in Northern Syria. In the middle of ... David Graeber, who has also visited Rojava, is also interesting. Given that the conflict in Syria has ... a variety of ethnicities, can be seen as the most promising part of the complex picture in Syria.  The ...

13. Inspiring call for solidarity with Kurdish freedom struggle

    ecology that is taking place in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS). Most importantly, the ... conference resolved that “it is a duty of supporters of the liberation struggle in northern Syria to make ... via Skype. Saleh Muslim stressed that the revolution was for all the peoples of northern Syria, not ...

14. Turkey: Leyla Güven ends hunger strike

    criticising the Turkish invasion of Afrin, a predominantly Kurdish area of northern Syria. Güven's hunger ...

15. Aleppo: A tale of three cities

    Bartlett states that she has been to Syria, including the war torn areas of Aleppo 4 times (how she managed ... to do this is soon to be answered) and that in her ‘experience’ the people of Aleppo and Syria are ... by her capacity to travel to one of the most dangerous areas in Syria not once but four times safely. ...

16. Letter from Rojava: 'A revolution is not a final destination'

    between five countries in the Middle East. Despite this, the left-wing Kurdish movement in Syria’s north ... from large parts of Northern Syria (Rojava – which means “West Kurdistan” in Kurdish) and lead a social ... a large part of the north of Syria, the cantons are facing two sets of problems. The first are security ...

17. Filipino socialists: Stop the bombing of Aleppo, provide safe passage

    trapped in Aleppo. PLM International  December 14, 2016 Philippines Syria December 14, 2016 World ...

18. Yemen war part of Saudi's regional power bid

    what are today Iraq and Syria. In 1801, Saudi forces ransacked the largely Shia city of Karbala ... protectorates of Transjordan, Syria and Iraq in order to force them to subjugate to Wahhabi doctrines. They came ...

19. Chief cops are paid well for a reason

    the Rojava Revolution in north-east Syria abolished the police, replacing it with democratic community ...

20. Sri Lanka: bombings a pretext for intensified repression

    extremist Islamic group, is believed to be linked to the Islamic State, based in Iraq and Syria. Sri Lankan ...

21. Bahrain ex-MP speaks about repression

    Gulf States wars in Yemen and Syria Naarm/Melbourne A former member of Bahrain's parliament, ... in Yemen and Syria. As a result, there have been cuts to government subsidies for meat, fuel and ...

22. #GreenLeft30: Celebrating 30 years of �鶹��ý

    �鶹��ý Kerry Smith #greenleft30 �鶹��ý  is celebrating 30 years of people-powered media on February 18. We would like to encourage you to join us at our anniversary event on March 27 with Kavita Krishnan. (Please book now!) Below are some of the m ...

23. The media’s epic distortion of Venezuela’s ‘refugee crisis’

    neck with Syria’s. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of mid-2016, ... compare with Syria. Second, Greece and Italy do not share a border with Syria, nor do the Balkans as they ... comparison excludes states that border Syria. Three of those bordering states — Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey ...

24. Perth solidarity with Suruç

    gathered in a community centre on the Turkish side of the border with Syria. They were planning to travel ... to Kobane in the Kurdish liberated zone in Syria. The protest was addressed by Brin Aslan from the ...

25. John Pilger: Beware of the West's violent hypocrisy

    see further into the future.” How succinctly she defines modern, violent liberalism. Syria is an ... [and] to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria. “CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to ... mount minor sabotage and coup de main [sic] incidents within Syria, working through contacts with ...

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