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  • Middle East

    What do Syrian and Lebanese activists think?

    12 April 2016, by Miriyam Aouragh

    Miriyam Aouragh introduces interviews with activists Syrian and Lebanese that aim to cut through the confusion that has clouded much of the British left in recent months. The activists’ responses to questions about the nature of Daesh, the role of sectarianism and whether class can still be a source of analysis in the uprising, how we should regard the Kurdish resistance, what differences does receiving weapons or help from western powers make, and what can we do here to support their movements, follow Miriyam’s introduction. [1]

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  • Syria:

    Origins, dynamics and developments of the revolutionary process

    1 March 2016, by Joseph Daher

    This is the English language version of an interview that was done for the Greek publication Ela Liberta.

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  • Sexual politics

    The programs of neoliberal feminism

    8 January 2016, by Linda Gordon

    Neoliberalism isn’t just harmful economics. Here is a look at its gender side.
    Academics and a few journalists have been writing about neoliberal feminism for some time. But most of them discuss it theoretically. Few recognize how neoliberal assumptions saturate specific proposals for advancing women, or how these proposals do not actually address women’s inequality, especially the inequality multiplied by race and class. At best these proposals are feeble in relation to most women’s problems, and they may even be part of the problem.

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  • Turkey

    Erdo?an’s Victory by Violence

    8 January 2016, by Guney I??kara, Alp Kayserilio?lu, & Max Zirngast

    The right-wing Justice and Development Party (AKP) is back in power, having easily won a clear majority of members of parliament (MPs) in the Turkish elections. While President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s party did not reach the necessary number of MPs to change the constitution and push through his desired presidential system, the AKP, their talking heads, and their media (just recently expanded through the seizure of more opposition media outlets) will put the issue back on the agenda. Indeed, they have already begun: one of Erdo?an’s senior advisors, Yi?it Bulut, said in his statement celebrating the AKP’s electoral victory, “Welcome, presidential system!”

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