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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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  • Syria

    Secularists, Secularism and the Syrian uprising

    27 August 2018, by Joseph Daher

    Syrian secularists, and moreover the concept of secularism, are under attack online and on the ground. Joseph Daher takes a critical look at recent efforts to discredit the contribution of Syrian secularists to the 2011 revolution and offers historic perspective on the meaning of secularism and how the concept has been used and misused in the battle to shape the future of Syria.

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  • Latin America

    The retreat of the pink tide in Latin America

    27 August 2018, by Jeffery R Webber, Phil Gasper

    Jeffery R. Webber is senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He spoke with ISO editorial board member Phil Gasper on April 5, the morning after the Brazilian Supreme Court voted to imprison the country’s former president, Lula da Silva.

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  • Our history

    1968 and the Spanish State: The Year in its Context

    20 June 2018, by Josep María Antentas

    Understanding the Spanish 68 requires an understanding of the rise of anti-Francoism in the previous years and its evolution after the state of exception declared in January 1969.

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  • Tunisia

    Trade Union Power and Democratic Transition in Tunisia - The UGTT: A Unique Story, An Unprecedented Experience

    19 June 2018, by Sami Adouani and Saïd Ben Sedrine

    In the wake of the collapse of the dictatorship in Tunisia, the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) constituted a key player in ensuring the country stayed on track for a peaceful transition to democracy. This article is intended as a guide facilitating better understanding of the UGTT’s power which allowed the trade union to assert itself and serve as a balancing force in a national context marked by strong political competition and significant social instability. In this context, the authors explore the origins of the UGTT’s power and analyse how these power resources were articulated and combined in the national dialogue (between October 2013 and November 2014), a process that allowed the country to extricate itself from the political impasse, earning the UGTT and three other civil society organisations the Nobel Peace prize in 2015

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