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’
The July unrest: confluence of ANC implosion and the deepening social crisis
10 September 2021, bySouth Africa is now undoubtedly in the throes of its worst social crisis since 1994. The recent violent events during the week of 11-18 July 2021, mainly confined to the two most populous provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, marked a turning point in the social and economic crisis that has been brewing for most of the time in post-94 South Africa.
Facing the Long J6 Riot
9 September 2021, by“Let’s remember that this is not only a time of rightwing menace, but also a moment when popular resistance movements and anti-dictatorship struggles are exploding globally. In the United States there’s a revival of interest in socialism, even if organizations of the revolutionary left coming from the struggles of the 20th and early 21st centuries are at low ebb.”
Texas Anti-Abortion Law Authorizes Vigilantes
8 September 2021, by“Today’s crisis opens up an opportunity to assert the right to a full program of reproductive justice. This begins with sex education based on science not superstition, an accessible public health system and a healthy environment to raise children.”
The Sixth IPCC report confirmed by the calamities of the summer
7 September 2021, by“Sixty days before COP26 in Glasgow, let us already point out the global mobilization on Saturday 6 November.”
The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere.
6 September 2021, byThe United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy after calamitous failures for a turn away from US imperialist ambitions.
Confronting Voter Suppression
5 September 2021, by“More must be done now. The people of all ethnic groups need to hit the streets, as the Black Lives Matter movement did in 2020.”
On 7 September: “Take to the streets to defeat the coup”
4 September 2021, by“From today until 7 September, the most important task is the construction of large popular mobilizations on the occasion of National Independence Day. ”
The legacy of Hissène Habré in Chad
3 September 2021, by“The Chad of the Débys remains in the same vein as Habré: assassinations, ethnicism, regionalism, nepotism, clientelism, shameless exploitation of human and natural resources for the benefit of a minority of parasites, plundering of public funds, and nauseating religious rigorism! All this with the blessing of French imperialism.”