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9/11: A Quarter Century of Imperial War

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-09-11T10:03:06Z

“Absolutely, I hold on to hope, hope rooted in the new generation and its capacity to invent new forms of struggle, as we have seen recently with the Moroccan Gen Z movement, an extraordinary moment, with thousands of young people mobilising and using modern technology to coordinate their action. I make a crucial distinction between optimism and hope, they are not the same thing at all. Optimism is the belief that the best outcome will happen. Hope is the belief that a better outcome is possible, with no guarantee attached. I can keep hoping, while recognising that today the balance of evidence weighs heavily toward pessimism.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, United States (USA), Syria, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen

Climate events provoke tensions in the Arab world

Luiza Toscane — 2026-08-02T08:54:03Z

The countries of the Arabic-speaking region experienced floods last winter (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia). Six months later, the region is experiencing extreme temperatures: from 40° to 50° in the Maghreb and 50° and more in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an average of 35° in Gaza (meaning 50° in tents). Deaths due to the heatwave are estimated to be in the hundreds in Tunisia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Climate, Yemen, Oman

A Festival of Obsequiousness

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-10-15T12:18:36Z

“As for the proud Palestinian people, they have spent a century proving their refusal to submit to their oppressors – whether the British Mandate authorities or the Zionist government. They will not kiss Donald Trump's hand or show him “appreciation”, no matter what those who claim to represent them may do.”

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel, Egypt

Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group

People Before Profit — 2025-06-13T17:28:16Z

UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.

- News from around the world / Palestine, Ireland, Egypt

Two Gaza Scenarios: Greater Israel vs. Oslo

Gilbert Achcar — 2023-10-26T13:32:34Z

A ground invasion appears imminent, but what is the political endgame?

- IV585 - October 2023 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel, Egypt

Ahmed Shawki (1960–2023)

Florian Wilde — 2023-03-09T12:11:04Z

He served as the central figure in the leadership of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) for the better part of his life, presiding over its rise to become the strongest organization of the US revolutionary left – but also the crisis which eventually led to its dissolution in 2019. Now, Ahmed “Shawki” Sehrawy has died, at only 62 years of age.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / United States (USA), Obituary, Egypt

Alaa Abdel Fattah ends his hunger strike

Alaa Abdel Fattah — 2022-11-23T07:32:45Z

Faced with the promise of finally seeing his family on Thursday 17 November and after 7 months on hunger strike, Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian activist imprisoned since 2019, a figure of the 2011 revolution, decided to start eating again on 12 November.

- IV574 - November 2022 / Egypt

Exacerbating the Contradictions

Joseph Daher — 2022-07-14T11:00:21Z

“But more than this, it is necessary to build social movements and encourage self-organization from below. The struggles accumulated by the Resistance Committees and the revolutionary movement in Sudan are one of the best regional experiences of organization from below, and can serve as valuable models.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Russia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist

Hoda Ahmed, Chedid Khairy — 2021-09-17T07:14:59Z

Reda Ibrahim Farag, a former leader of the Egyptian revolutionary Marxist current, died in Cairo on 4 August 2021. He played an important role in the constitution and leadership of a revolutionary organization from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Egypt, Features

Solidarity with Hisham Fouad

2021-07-24T15:26:24Z

Urgent action toolkit: Hisham Fouad

- News from around the world / Egypt