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, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Don’t blame the Kurds, the Alawites, or the Druze for Israel’s fishing in Syria’s troubled waters. The blame lies primarily with the new HTS rulers and their jihadist allies.
Israel has accustomed us to fishing in troubled waters. The Zionist state has long been interested in sowing discord (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
After more than 10 years of civil war, the Syrian population is grappling with an extremely complicated recovery and reconstruction process. Joseph Daher analyses the government’s first measures.
The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 had rekindled hopes for Syria’s future. However, (…)
, by al-SALAMEH Tareq
Israeli forces have advanced miles into Syrian territory — confiscating land and homes, killing farmers, and seeking to divide the region’s diverse population.
As it resumes military operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel has expanded its ground incursions across southern Syria in recent weeks, (…)
, by ZAMBRANA Marga
After nearly 14 years of civil war, Syria is a devastated country, with a ruined economy and a destroyed labour market. Those who have found good jobs or founded successful businesses will be slow to return. In this image, a Syrian employee displaced by the war puts a pizza in the oven at the (…)
, by Fourth International
Since 6 March, attacks against the Alawite population in Syria have intensified, taking the form of veritable massacres that have left several hundred civilians dead.
Following a bloody armed insurrection by pro-Assad militias, various armed factions affiliated to Hayat Tahrir al-Cham (HTS), (…)
, by GRITTEN David, SINJAB Lina
A Kurdish-led militia alliance which controls north-eastern Syria has signed a deal to integrate all military and civilian institutions into the Syrian state, the country’s presidency says.
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (L) signed the deal alongside interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R)
The (…)
, par Fourth International
The World Congress of the Fourth International overwhelmingly approved this motion (114 for 1 agaisnt) at the World Congress in February 2025.
1. The Fourth International greets the people of Syria and congratulates them on the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship. This epochal event was (…)
, by MONTAG Santiago
Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee camp was brutally besieged and almost entirely depopulated during the civil war. Now, returnees are starting to rebuild — but face extreme poverty and deep political uncertainty.
In 2017, as Syrian regime forces besieged the Palestinian refugee camp of (…)
, by HELLER Stanley
Reactions to the fall of the Assad regime - Unfortunately, the U.S. Left has been dominated by campist thinking, opposing the U.S. “camp” and then supporting the other camps, i.e. any state or movement that was in the bad graces of the U.S. empire. Call it a stunted, deformed anti-imperialism or (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
The Syrian popular classes must organise to achieve the initial aspirations of the Syrian revolution.
Is the Egyptian coup model possible in Syria? Are the old regime and its remnants the main threat to Syria? Or is the main threat today that HTS and the regional and international forces (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
’There is a desperate need to return to the original aspirations of the uprising for democracy, social justice and equality—including upholding Kurdish self-determination’, writes Joseph Daher.
In recent weeks, the Syrian National Army (SNA), with the support of Turkish forces, launched deadly (…)
, by Al-HAJJ SALEH Yassin, EL AZZOUZI Rachida
For this writer, one of Syria’s leading intellectual opponents of the Assad regime, the Syrian people are experiencing a moment comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Speaking about the return to his homeland, justice, and reconstruction, this exiled thinker reveals his fears and hopes. (…)
, by RID Thomas
Bashar al-Assad has fallen. No one will regret it. In twenty years of dictatorship and ten years of civil war, he and his clique succeeded in transforming Syria into a hellish dystopia, doubtless worse than Iraq under Saddam Hussein, although the latter had set the bar very high. Syria, or at (…)
, by VANDEVOORDE Pierre
Munif Mulhem was born in Homs in 1951. A ground-to-air missile officer, he was expelled from the army, which was completely controlled by the Baath party, in 1973 for being a Marxist. In 1974, he initiated the creation of a Marxist workers’ circle. In 1976, the League for communiste action was (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
After Assad, any alternative economic plan that will benefit all Syrians is likely to come from a progressive & organised base, not HTS, argues Joseph Daher. HTS’ neoliberalism won’t improve it.
Following the fall of Assad’s regime, Syria’s future is filled with many challenges, (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
After Assad, any alternative economic plan that will benefit all Syrians is likely to come from a progressive & organised base, not HTS, argues Joseph Daher.
Following the fall of Assad’s regime, Syria’s future is filled with many challenges, particularly regarding its economic recovery (…)
, by HANAFI Sari
The Assad regime remains a litmus test for the global Left, with the Syrian right to liberation suppressed in favour of false stability, says Sari Hanafi.
As a Palestinian-Syrian, I’m not exaggerating when I say that last Sunday was one of the happiest days of my life.
It marked the fall of (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, SHALOM Stephen R.
[Gilbert Achcar has been a major left commentator on international affairs for many years. He grew up in Lebanon and has lived and taught in Paris, Berlin, and London. He is just retiring as professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. His many (…)
, par ZOUBI Baker
Residents of the occupied Jawlan celebrated the regime’s collapse, but remain wary amid political instability and further Israeli encroachment inside Syria.
Residents celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, in Majdal Shams, Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, December 9, 2024. (Chaim (…)
, by TUĞAL Cihan
Turkish pro-government circles are euphoric – not only because an Islamist-led coalition toppled the dictator they detested, but also because they believe that their president orchestrated the whole operation. In the earliest days of the Arab Spring, the AKP’s calculation was that the uprisings (…)
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