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Justice for the Middle East Is Also About Climate

Adam Hanieh, Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2026-05-11T17:10:15Z

“The deepening climate emergency means that we need to put upfront the question of the climate and the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels. The Middle East is absolutely key to this because it sits at the centre of the world oil and gas industry, particularly in relation to global exports. The politics of the region – from Palestine to Iran – cannot be understood separate from this role of the Middle East in the global energy system.”

- Features / Palestine, United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Ecology and the Environment, Israel, Iran, Kurdistan

Neofascism, Imperialism, War, and Revolution in the Middle East

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-08-07T10:19:41Z

This interview was conducted online on March 30, 2025, by Rodrigo Utrera, a student of sociology at the University of Chile. (Email: rodrigo.utrera@ug.uchile.cl.) He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Actuel Marx Intervenciones in Chile. The interview was first published in Spanish in that journal (no. 35, August 2025), in an issue dedicated to examining war and its mutations in the twenty-first century.

- Features / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iran, Fascism

For the right to self-determination of Palestinians, for the withdrawal of imperialist forces from the Middle East

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-03-03T16:39:20Z

The war in Gaza continues, with its procession of horrors, but also with significant solidarity mobilizations and significant resistance in Palestine. Gilbert Achcar addresses this situation and the avenues for building resistance against Israel and its accomplices, the far right and imperialism.

- IV590 - March 2024 / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Israel

Biden in the Middle East: Gross Imperial Spectacle

David Finkel — 2022-07-31T06:32:00Z

“Indeed, all the regimes in this swirl of regional and imperial rivalries — Egypt and Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Russia and China, Israel and the United States — are engaged in the most vicious and anti-democratic oppression. May the rulers sink together in the Red Sea.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Israel

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)

Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism

Joseph Daher — 2021-09-17T07:15:17Z

“Leftists must therefore oppose Islamophobic discourse developed and maintained by Western elites, governments and media against Islamic fundamentalist movements and denounce their repression by authoritarian regimes when it is the case in certain countries. But this principled position should not prevent us from supporting and fighting for radical change in MENA societies.”

- Features / United States (USA), Europe, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Features

9/11: how the United States' – and UK's – hubris met its Nemesis

Gilbert Achcar — 2021-09-11T04:57:44Z

On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Gilbert Achcar explores the consequences of attempted US expansionism in the ‘Greater Middle East'

- IV560 - September 2021 / United States (USA), Britain, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), War drive/Anti-war movements

Palestinian liberation and the MENA revolutions

Joseph Daher — 2021-07-10T20:06:52Z

“The liberation of Palestine thus passes through the liberation of all the peoples living under tyrants in Damascus, Riyadh, Doha, Tehran, Ankara, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Amman, and all the others.”

- IV558 - July 2021 / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Arab Revolutions

The History of Women's Movements in Asia and the Middle East

Kumari Jayawardena — 2020-10-25T15:27:06Z

For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.

- Feminism / MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Women, Features

A Marxist Guide to Understanding the Gulf States' Political Economy

Adam Hanieh — 2020-08-05T09:36:24Z

Western analysts often regard the Gulf as a strange anomaly among capitalist states. In fact, it has the same underlying dynamics as capitalist countries elsewhere, and it is powerfully shaping the politics of the Middle East.

For an analysis of the state of the Gulf's political economy, Hamza Culin spoke with Adam Hanieh. His most recent book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies, examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Here, he discusses the specific nature of Gulf capital, its role in regional and global markets, and its future in a post-COVID-19 world.

- IV547 - August 2020 / Marxism, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Economy, Saudi Arabia