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9 April 2020
East London Socialist Party: The role of the Socialist newspaper during the coronavirus crisis
19 February 2020
Yemen's desperate civil war fuelled by imperialism and regional powers
Only unified, revolutionary movement of working class and poor can end the turmoil: The final article in our series on the Middle East
12 February 2020
Lebanon - mass protests cut across sectarian division
In the following article - the fourth in a continuing series in the Socialist on countries in turmoil in the Middle East - Socialist Party national committee member Iain Dalton looks at the most recent protests shaking the political establishment in Lebanon
5 February 2020
Israel/Palestine: Trump 'peace plan' promises further conflict
The recent 'deal' announced by US President Donald Trump and enthusiastically endorsed by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was billed as a 'Middle East peace plan'. But as the Economist journal wrote: "As a blueprint for a two-state solution it was dead on arrival".
5 February 2020
Syria: Assad regime consolidates power after brutal counterrevolution
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has succeeded, for now, in defeating the revolutionary uprising and subsequent armed rebellion that has swept over the country since the 'Arab Spring' of 2011.
22 January 2020
Iraq - a brutal legacy of imperialist intervention
The Iraqi people have endured horrors from iron dictatorship to brutal imperialist occupation to dysfunctional and corrupt rule by local sectarian parties
15 January 2020
London: Protesters return to oppose Middle East war
On 11 January, Stop the War called a second demonstration in central London after the recent attacks in Iraq and Iran.
15 January 2020
Renewed protests shake Iranian leaders
A wave of anger over what is seen as the regime's lying and incompetence - after the tragic downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet - has sparked off a third round of mass protests in Iran in just over three years.
8 January 2020
Suleimani's assassination - Middle East thrown into turmoil
Shockwaves went around the world at the news of Trump's decision to assassinate Suleimani
8 January 2020
Trump attacks Iran - London protest: We need workers' action against war and austerity
Socialist Party members responded to the call to oppose Trump's drone strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the ratcheting up to war on Saturday 4 January.
27 November 2019
Regime's fuel price rise sparks massive protests across Iran
Iran has been shaken by a new nationwide wave of anger and protests after a sudden overnight government announcement that imposed a 50% fuel price rise on the cost of fuel.
30 October 2019
Angry mass revolts have been erupting in many countries across the globe. On Friday 25 October, up to two million people demonstrated on the streets of Chile's capital Santiago.
23 October 2019
Solidarity with the Kurdish people
As the Turkish onslaught in the Kurdish area of Syria continued last week, the campaign Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT) organised a protest at the Turkish embassy in London.
23 October 2019
Massive protests against Lebanon's corrupt elite
Mass protests have engulfed Beirut and other cities across Lebanon demanding the ousting of the government
16 October 2019
Mass united action against the war on Syrian Kurds
The Turkish army's indiscriminate shelling of towns along the Turkish-Syria border has already led to the slaughter of many civilians
10 October 2019
Trump gives green light to Turkey to attack Kurds
Turkey has launched a military assault on Kurdish areas in north Syria
2 October 2019
Egypt: Street protests challenge Trump's favourite dictator
Street protests in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities broke out on 20 and 21 September. Although only involving dozens or a few hundred, at first, they grew in numbers and spread to other cities.
25 September 2019
Drone attacks on Saudi Arabia: Tensions ratcheted up
The drone missile attacks on two oil installations in Saudi Arabia on 14 September threw more incendiary material into the volatility and instability of the Middle East.
17 July 2019
Interview: protests over killing in Israel
Mass protests blocked roads across Israel after the 30 June killing of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah by an off-duty cop in the Kiryat Haim area of Haifa, an Israeli port town on the Mediterranean Sea. The Socialist spoke to Eli Yossef, a shop steward in the ancillary section of a hospital in central Israel
26 June 2019
Ratcheting up of Iran-US tensions
Neither imperialism nor regional powers offer a way forward for Middle East workers and poor
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