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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
5 June 2019
On 4 June 2019, the day of the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre, counter-revolutionary forces allied to the ruling regime in Sudan launched a violent attack on the two month-long mass opposition occupation outside the military barracks in Khartoum.
15 May 2019
Several thousand protesters including Palestinians, Muslim organisations, the Socialist Party and other left-wing groups marched through central London on 11 May to mark Nakba Day.
15 May 2019
Revolution and counter-revolution in Sudan
The overthrow of Omar al-Bashir by the Sudanese masses on 11 April is one of the most momentous events in the modern history of the country, the continent and the Middle East. It has simultaneously inspired the masses throughout Africa and instilled fear in despotic regimes in the region.
17 April 2019
Sudan: No to rule of the generals!
After 30 years of dictatorship in Sudan, historic mass protests have achieved the fall of President Omar Al-Bashir in a forced 'palace coup' by the generals. Following this, a 'transitional military council' was established, with defence minister Amhed Awad Ibn Auf sworn in as president.
17 April 2019
Assange arrest: US and allied governments seeking revenge for exposing dirty wars
After seven years of self-imposed exile in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was dragged from his place of asylum and arrested by the Metropolitan police.
10 April 2019
'Traitors': Cold War cloak and daggers as capitalist powers spy on allies
TV review: At the end of World War Two, US imperialism calculated the British Empire was a spent force and the US could take on the mantle of world power
10 April 2019
Algeria: Bouteflika is finished but the Algerian revolution is not!
The force of the revolutionary movement in Algeria is similar to that of the first weeks of the Arab Spring
27 March 2019
Algeria uprising: 'We stay here until the whole system goes'
Every Friday since 22 February hundreds of thousands of Algerians have been protesting against their president
6 February 2019
Film: Vice - Dick Cheney - a cold and calculating opportunist
"So?" is Dick Che-ney's response to the fact that two-thirds of Americans said the 2003 Iraq war was not worth fighting. 'Vice' closes with this.
6 February 2019
40 years since the Iranian revolution: Learning the lessons for today's new working-class struggles
Forty years ago a great revolution against a dictatorial monarchy was in progress in Iran. Recalling those days still inspires us: scenes of comradeship despite the shortages due to long days of nationwide strikes, initiatives by ordinary people to run their communities and workplaces
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