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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

• Economy

  Imperialism Today: A Critical Assessment of Latin American Dependency Theory

  21 March 2018, by Claudio Katz

  Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the systemic unequal relations of the Latin American countries in particular with the developed economies of the imperialist “North.” He was a close collaborator of, among others, Vânia Bambirra and the recently-deceased Theotónio Dos Santos. Marini’s best-known work, first published in Spanish in 1972, is Dialectics of Dependency.

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• USA

  Trump and the Labor Movement

  16 March 2018, by Dan La Botz

  We working people live in darkening times. When the Trump presidency ends in four years—if it does—we may no longer have an organized labor movement. As one of my colleagues, Ed Ott of the Murphy Institute, the City University of New York’s labor school, said to me, “We are at the beginning of the end of the U.S. labor movement based on a partnership with capital.” We are at the twilight of an era. Labor unions and collective bargaining stand to be swept away, and with them the institutions that have sheltered us in the workplace and provided us with a modicum of job security, living wages, health insurance, and pension benefits. [1]

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• Sexual Politics

  Sex and the Russian Revolution

  8 March 2018, by Peter Drucker

  The big question surrounding the centenary of the October Revolution: Is this event a hundred years ago still relevant for the left today?

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• The Feminist Horizon

  6 March 2018, by Jodie Dean

  As the organizers of the International Women’s Strike (IWS) have declared, March 8, 2018 will be “a day of feminism for the 99 percent.” One year ago to the day, International Women’s Day, women and their allies around the globe participated in the first International Women’s Strike, which was billed as “A Day Without a Woman.” Building on the international momentum from the Women’s March earlier in 2017, strikers took to the streets and demonstrated from Tokyo to Rome, Istanbul to Mexico City, Manila to Los Angeles. In the United States, school districts in multiple states were shut down, demonstrators filled city centers and university grounds—even some elected officials in Washington, D.C., showed solidarity.

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