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Articles on West Asia

The region usually called the “Middle East” in the West – a name chosen from London’s point of view. Since Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease directive of 1943 it has been a subject of American security policy. Texts on Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.

  • Essentials

    War on Terror: Perfect Pretext

    9/11 and the following “War on Terror” was the welcome pretext for an old US plan: to subject rivals to its own dictate after 1991.

  • Essentials

    The Party of God

    A history of Hezbollah: from regional resistance to a Bonapartist pillar of the system.

  • The war against Iran

    Iran is an ultra-reactionary class society. But that is irrelevant to the rejection of this imperialist plunder.

  • Attack on Kurdish Enclaves: What Comes Next?

    Despite the agreement, Syria’s government forces are massacring the residents of Sheikh Maqsud. Despite fierce resistance, the enclaves fall, followed by ethnic cleansing. The West escorts Julani without interference.

  • Essentials

    The Iranian Revolution: Bitter fruit

    The imperialist overthrow of Mossadegh was the direct cause of the Iranian Revolution and of anti-Americanism in Iran.

  • Colonial Peace

    The 20-point ‘peace plan’ cements all the contradictions that led to October 7th — this colonial peace could hardly be more absurd.

  • Gaza Is Occupied

    75% of Gaza is illegally occupied under international law. The capture of Gaza City would complete the genocide. Despite losses, the Palestinian resistance remains strong – collective punishment does not break it.

  • Once a Terrorist, always a Terrorist

    Al-Jolani militias kill Druze in Syria – using ISIS symbols. The US continues to support him. Consequences for Rojava, parallels to Bin Laden, Israel’s role.

  • Essentials

    The Puzzle Piece: Mahmoud Abbas

    Mahmoud Abbas is the key piece to understanding the division of Palestine, the rise of Hamas, the decline of Fatah, and the events of October 7.

  • Reluctantly Compassionate

    The threats of the European states are empty talk – their rule is in danger.

  • Essentials

    PKK – History and New Beginning

    History and “dissolution” of the PKK, and what its future means for the Kurdish people’s movement.

  • Rulers and Murderers in the Name of God

    Al-Dscholani orders the massacre of hundreds of Alawites and declares himself the Caliph of the new Syria.

  • Capital Seizes Gaza

    What interests the United States pursue with the takeover of Gaza.

  • Syria: al-Qaeda in a Tie

    The reality of the new Syrian regime is slowly catching up.

  • Ceasefire – and now what?

    Why the ceasefire will not last long and how things will proceed. A balance sheet of the genocide.

  • Blazer-wearing Terrorist

    About the new terror regime in Syria with input from a Syrian communist.

  • 3. Assad has fallen!

    After 13 years of war and 53 years of Assad rule, Syria has fallen. What happens now?

  • 2. “Your turn, Doctor

    The Syrian civil war, whose interests are represented there, and how Rojava was able to establish itself.

  • Essentials

    1. Kurds and Syria before the Revolution

    Democratic federalism, repression against Kurds, and the contradictions that led to Syria’s revolution.

  • Of Good and Bad Tyrants

    Why capitalist states do not care how a country behaves internally and externally, as long as it does not threaten their interests, and with which other tyrants the Federal Republic of Germany has already cozyed up.

  • Resistance and Terror

    A clear definition of the criteria by which political violence should be evaluated, and how one should respond to it.

  • Contradiction: Combating Resistance

    Every dead father raises his son as a fighter; why resistance* behaves like a Hydra, and what contradictions it reveals about Israel’s warfare.

  • The Role of Sexualized Violence

    The role of systematic rape in resistance suppression and why it is of no interest to the bourgeois press.

  • The Great Peacemaker

    China achieves historic diplomatic successes: Palestinian unity and initiatives towards ending the Ukraine war.

  • Israel-related Anti-Semitism and the “Staatsräson”

    The different forms of Israel-related antisemitism and how they are rooted in the bourgeois treatment of Zionism.

  • Rule in Crisis

    The illegal ban of the Palestine Congress marks a turning point in the current crisis of the bourgeois state.

  • Nation larger than Humanity

    Attack on aid workers in Gaza; The escape from the statistics, the justification for a death with consequences, is solely based on the nationality of a nation that plays a role in the global hegemony.

  • Positive Antisemitism

    German banks are once again freezing Jewish money, and Jewish people are once again being silenced. On “Positive” Antisemitism and the equating of Zionism and Judaism.

  • A Misunderstanding

    Boycott actions and TikTok filters: On the capitalist nature of this war and well-intentioned bourgeois reason.

  • For how much longer?

    Israel’s new right-wing extremist government and what it means for Palestinians.

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