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The women's uprising in Yemen

Luiza Toscane — 2025-06-08T07:52:12Z

Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Women, Yemen

Yemen on the brink

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-03-21T08:08:00Z

Now that Trump has returned to the White House with far greater arrogance than during his first term, the possibility of re-escalating the war in Yemen with direct US involvement has become very real.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / United States (USA), Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

So-called axis of resistance

Joseph Daher — 2025-03-09T08:04:20Z

Joseph Daher discusses regional and multipolar imperialism, the limits of Iranian resistance, and the international path toward Palestinian liberation.

- Features / Palestine, Syria, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Israel, Not Iran or Hezbollah, Wants a Wider War

Joseph Daher — 2024-09-02T04:58:00Z

Having painted itself into a corner by launching a war that has killed 40,000 Palestinians and failed to defeat Hamas, Israel has doubled down, provoking a wider war with Iran and Hezbollah to bring in the US against enemies it cannot vanquish alone.

- IV596-September 2024 / Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen

From civil war to active support for Gaza in Yemen

Édouard Soulier — 2024-05-08T20:08:33Z

“The division among their opponents has certainly helped the Houthis survive, but that's not all. Perhaps the biggest mistake made by Saudi and Emirati officials was to believe their propaganda that the Houthis were puppets of Iran. In fact, the movement's leaders have mobilized deep religious and social grievances behind their military campaigns, drawing on a decade of experience challenging the Yemeni state before they seized power in 2015.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Yemen

Impact of Israeli Genocidal War in Gaza on the Middle East

Joseph Daher — 2024-01-20T16:57:00Z

THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION army is continuing more than 100 days after its outbreak to wage a genocidal war against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. This immediately followed the October 7th Hamas attack, which led to the death of 1,139 persons, including 695 Israeli civilians, 373 members of the security forces and 71 foreigners.
The 2.4 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are living under a constant Israeli bombardment of unprecedented violence. By mid-January 2024, according (…)

- IV588 - January 2024 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen

Unprecedented humanitarian crisis amidst imperialist intervention and counter-revolutionary revenge in Yemen

Frank Prouhet — 2023-11-11T04:00:53Z

“The revolution was strong enough to oust President Saleh from power. But there was no question for US and also French imperialism, or the neighbouring Saudi monarchy, or the old Yemeni military-tribal reactionary forces, of letting the revolution rule. ”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Yemen

After the Pandemic Subsides, We May See a Third Wave of the Arab Spring

Ashley Smith, Gilbert Achcar — 2021-01-20T10:53:42Z

“There's still a very long way to go in this long-term revolutionary process. The good news is that people are learning what they're up against and drawing lessons from both defeats and victories.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Arab Revolutions, Jordan, Yemen, Sudan, Bahrain

Dockers refuse to load arms for Saudi Arabia

2019-06-16T11:17:22Z

In recent weeks, attempts to deliver ammunition for Caesar cannons and other types of armaments to Saudi Arabia have been interrupted by the mobilization of dockworkers in three different ports in France and Italy.

- News from around the world / Italy, France, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Four Years of Forgotten War on Yemen

Majed Alwishaliy — 2019-05-15T07:58:04Z

In four years of aggression against Yemen, what has been produced? An humanitarian crisis for the Yemeni people.

- IV532 - May 2019 / Saudi Arabia, Yemen