International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Welcome to the new Algerian revolution

Omar Hassan, Hamza Hamouchene — 2019-05-20T07:03:53Z

In 2011, a wave of revolutionary struggle swept the Middle East and North Africa, often bringing down dictatorships that had governed for decades. Millions protested on the streets, occupied public spaces and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Having broken through the fear produced by years of repression, the Arab Spring became an inspiration for activists across the world.

- IV532 - May 2019

Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad

Omar Hassan, Toufic Haddad — 2018-06-11T16:22:31Z

For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines. Called by organisers the Great March of Return, the mobilisations have demanded an end to the crippling Western state-Israeli economic and political blockade of the Gaza Strip and that families expelled for generations from their homelands be allowed to return.

- IV521 - June 2018 / Palestine

Lebanon on a knife edge

Omar Hassan — 2017-11-26T09:47:52Z

Tensions in Lebanon are escalating once again as Saudi Arabia threatens to open up yet another front in its cold war with Iran. The trigger for the latest crisis was the resignation of prime minister Saad Hariri, who has been the Saudi's main representative since the assassination of his father in 2005.

- IV514 - November 2017 / Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia