Middle East
Turkey's governing party wants to broaden anti-union laws to make it impossible for aviation unions to organize legal strikes.
May 22, 2012 : Mostafa Ali An Egyptian socialist explains the players and looks at the backdrop to the first presidential election after the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
May 22, 2012 : Mohamed Atef An Egyptian socialist describes the fate he and seven others face for the "crime" of organizing solidarity for Coptic Christians.
May 8, 2012 Eight socialists and activists in Egypt are asking for support as they face prison for protesting in defense of Egyptian Copts.
May 2, 2012 Egypt's termination of a gas deal with Israel ought to be considered a positive development made possible by the revolution.
May 1, 2012 : Eamonn McCann To Bahrain's monarchy, a Formula One grand prix car race comes before the human rights of the country's Shia majority.
April 25, 2012 : Lee Sustar and Yusef Khalil As the Syrian regime seeks to crush the Syrian revolution, conservative Arab Gulf states are pushing the opposition toward a guerilla conflict.
April 24, 2012 : Jeremy Scahill A Yemeni journalist remains in jail at the request of the White House, despite evidence that he is innocent of any crime.
March 21, 2012 Striking workers at the Somid Company Port near Egypt's Suez Canal were arrested and tortured by Egyptian police.
March 15, 2012 : Yusef Khalil and Lee Sustar The massacre of civilians after the fall of the Baba Amr section of Homs comes as the imperialist powers jockey for influence in Syria.
March 5, 2012 A leading Egyptian socialist was arrested and then released after being beaten along with two other activists in Alexandria.
February 10, 2012 Protests erupted in Egypt over a soccer-match massacre that many people believe was orchestrated by the military.
February 7, 2012 : Yusef Khalil With the latest maneuvers by the West blocked in a UN Security Council vote, the regime of Bashar al-Assad is seeking to drown Syria's revolution in blood.
February 7, 2012 : Mostafa Ali An Egyptian socialist looks back on developments since the revolution began one year ago--and ahead to what comes next for the struggle.
February 2, 2012 : Ahmed Mohammed An activist describes Bahrain's complex relationship to the dynamics unleashed a year ago by the Egyptian revolution.
February 1, 2012 : Shimaa Helmy An Egyptian activist and blogger talks about last year's revolution and why she came to the U.S. to share her experiences.
January 30, 2012 An international campaign has been launched to oppose acts repression in Egypt and to stand with the Egyptian people.
January 26, 2012 Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists describe the challenges ahead as the Egyptian revolution begins its second year.
January 25, 2012 : Lee Sustar The uprising in Syria is being hammered by state repression--while Western governments seek to manipulate the movement to their own ends.
January 10, 2012 Egypt's military rulers have escalated a deadly crackdown against those standing up for democracy and justice--but the revolution has not been silenced.
January 5, 2012 Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists respond to a propaganda campaign aimed at whipping up a hysteria against them.
December 23, 2011 Egypt's military has carried out a horrific attack on demonstrators protesting the generals' continued hold on power.
December 20, 2011 A coalition of U.S. organizations has come together to demand an end to the military's savage crackdown in Egypt.
December 20, 2011 : Hossam el-Hamalawy An Egyptian socialist discusses the next phase of the struggle after the elections and the mass protests that came before.
December 15, 2011 : Jeremy Tully A teach-in at UC Berkeley gave expression to important debates about the nature of the uprisings and the U.S. role in the region.
November 29, 2011
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