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  Collateral Damage Comes Home: Lebanon, Palestine, Iran to Michigan

  21 March, by David Finkel

  The already unbearable horrors engulfing the peoples of the Middle East exploded into U.S. domestic news on March 12 with the attack in suburban Detroit at Temple Israel, the country’s largest Reform Jewish congregation.

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  Iran: Imperialists escalate war

  20 March, by Babak Kia

  The imperialist war unleashed on 28 February 2026 by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu against the Islamic Republic of Iran is becoming more destructive every day.

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• Philippines-Middle East
  

  On the Middle East crisis and the Philippines.

  19 March, by IIRE Manila

  The global order is currently grappling with a catastrophic escalation in the Middle East. Initiated without provocation by coordinated US-Israeli attacks on Iranian strategic targets on February 28, 2026, the conflict has rapidly evolved into a multi-front war.

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• Senegal
  

  Senegal: Debt fuels authoritarian drift

  18 March, by Paul Martial

  Senegal has entered a zone of strong turbulence. Audits of the west African country’s economic situation show that the figures published by the former government led by Macky Sall were false.

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• Iran
  

  The Iranian nuclear bomb: a devastating boomerang

  17 March, by Houshang Sepehr

  In the aftermath of January 2026’s crackdown, voices within and close to the Islamic Republic renewed calls for Iran to complete a nuclear deterrent, claiming the bomb would have prevented the current existential crisis. Houshang Sepehr, exiled Iranian Marxist and editor of Solidarité Socialiste avec les Travailleurs en Iran, challenges this on structural grounds. Drawing on the cases of India, Pakistan, and North Korea, he argues that nuclear deterrence only functions within security architectures backed by a great power patron --- a guarantee Iran never had. Neither Russia nor China was willing to absorb the risks of a nuclearised Islamic Republic contesting US hegemony. The bomb, he concludes, would have deepened Iran’s isolation rather than protecting it.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  The American People and the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran

• France

  “A united and militant movement can prevent the RN from winning”

• Brazil

  The courts convict those who ordered the murder of Marielle Franco

• USA

  Growing Convergence of the Anti-Trump movement in the US

• Greece

  In Greece, we do not forget, we do not forgive Tèmbi

Recently posted Features

• Syria

  The Syrian revolution and the failure of the “anti-imperialist” left

  22 October 2018, by Kostas Kousiantas, Pantelis Afthinos

  This article was written after the bombing of Syrian military installations carried out by US, UK and French military forces on April 14th 2018 and before the attack by the Assad regime against Dara’a began.

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• Economy

  A critical look at China’s One Belt, One Road initiative

  21 October 2018, by Martin Hart-Landsberg

  China’s growth rate remains impressive, even if on the decline. The country’s continuing economic gains owe much to the Chinese state’s (1) still considerable ability to direct the activity of critical economic enterprises and sectors such as finance, (2) commitment to policies of economic expansion, and (3) flexibility in economic strategy. It appears that China’s leaders view their recently adopted One Belt, One Road Initiative as key to the country’s future economic vitality. However, there are reasons to believe that this strategy is seriously flawed, with working people, including in China, destined to pay a high price for its shortcomings.

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• Women

  A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement

  21 October 2018, by So Yun Alysha Park

  In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women’s movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.

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• China

  Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?

  20 October 2018, by Yu Chunsen

  After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial workers’ (xin chanye gongren), ‘semi-proletariat’, ‘full proletariat’, ‘precarious proletariat’ (buwending wuchanzhe), and even ‘Chinese new workers’ (zhongguo xin gongren) (Lee 2007; Lü 2012 and 2014; Pun and Chan 2008; Pun and Lu 2010; Smith and Pun 2017; Standing 2016; Swider 2015; Woronov 2016; Xie 2005; Yang 2010).

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