Socialist Appeal - International Marxist Tendency
Marxism. Socialism. Revolution.
Alan Woods takes an in-depth look at the situation in Syria, where the ceasefire has broken down. The dire situation reveals the cynicism of the imperialists - and the horror without end that they have created.
After inflicting years of barbarism on the Yemeni people, the Saudi coalition is falling apart at the seams. This, Hamid Alizadeh explains, spells trouble for the rotten Saudi ruling class.
Waves of heroic protests have spread rapidly to towns and cities throughout Iran over the past two weeks. But, as Farshad Azadian reports, the rhetoric of Western leaders in support of the ‘Iranian people’ has nothing to do with concern for the suffering of the Iranian people and everything to do with assuring their own imperialist interests.
In the past week, Iran has seen the most widespread protests since the 1979 Revolution. While it is still smaller in size than the 2009 Green movement, it has spread far beyond the mainly urban areas of the big cities to which that movement was mainly confined. This is a sea-change and it has shaken the regime to its foundations.
The Russians and Iranians have declared the successful end of the war on the Islamic State. But the war against ISIS in the Middle East has fundamentally changed the balance of forces in the Middle East. The influence of Moscow and Tehran has grown, whilst that of US imperialism and its Saudi ally has been greatly diminished. For the masses, life in the region remains a nightmare.