MIddle East

War on Iran – Trump Has Unleashed a Nightmare

March 10, 2026. Danny Byrne, ISA International Political Committee Lives, energy, ecology and the world economy all under attack US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day (10 M...

Middle East: War on Iran escalates as Trump moves towards intervention

For socialists and workers’ organisations against the war, stepping up the mass international antiwar movement is extremely urgent Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 18 June 2025) After 5 da...

Middle East: Israel begins un-precedented offensive against Iran

Only the working class can stop war - urgent international workers’ action needed to shut down the war machine Per-Ake Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 13 June 2025) The genocidal Israeli regime’s...

Gaza: Ceasefire broken — Netanyahu and Trump renew the slaughter

Rebuild and escalate the global movement against genocidal war and imperialism Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 18 March 2025) Netanyahu’s far-right government, with the full support of...

Middle East: A new balance of power, a fragile ceasefire and Trump

Trump will be the most supportive US president ever to Netanyahu and the extreme-right. Per-Ake Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 1 February 2025) The Middle East continues to be at the centre o...

Syrian dictatorship collapses — What next for war-ravaged region?

The truth is that neither the victorious Islamist ‘rebels nor the imperialist powers involved on both sides represent the interests of the region’s people. Workers, the poor and the oppressed in Syria must build and organise their own way forward. ...

Middle East: Fall of Aleppo aggravates military and geopolitical crisis

Turkish-backed forces seize on shifting balance of power in region Editorial from Offensiv, paper of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) (This article was first published on 3 December 2024) The Islamist HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) militia’s ligh...

War in the Middle East

Huge test for CCP regime’s global power and turn to ‘Global South’ Editorial from Socialist magazine (ISA in China) issue 72 The war that erupted in the Middle East on 7 October is convulsing world relations. This adds a new layer of complications ...

US: Biden’s Foreign Policy Back to Normal Imperialism?

Trade wars, de-globalization, and U.S.-China rivalry isn’t the product of one man’s personality. George Martin Fell Brown Socialist Alternative ISA the USA During the election, Biden promised that, as president, he would “repair the damage wroug...

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Iran Ceasefire – Trump’s Biggest TACO

April 8, 2026. Per Olsson, Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an e...

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