Syria

Turkish regime opens dirty war on Kurds, leftists

The reactionary Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, began a military offensive…

August 4, 2015

Workers World and FIST at Left Forum

More than 1,300 speakers and thousands of activists and academics met in New York City from May 29 through May…

June 13, 2015

Washington’s Saudi ally bombs Yemen

March 30 — The Gulf Cooperation Council, under Saudi Arabia’s direction, announced on March 26 that it began bombing Ansurallah…

April 3, 2015

PFLP leadership meets with U.S. delegation

The following article was posted Feb. 25 at pflp.ps. Comrade Abu Ahmad Fuad, deputy general secretary of the Popular Front…

February 26, 2015

Syria says Israeli attack helps al-Qaida

“How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force,” Syria President Bashar…

February 4, 2015

Charlie Hebdo, the free press and racism

How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan.…

January 13, 2015

The FBI came looking for me

To the editor, I am writing to let everyone know that the FBI visited my father today with the intention…

October 25, 2014

War weary

Senator John McCain, the militarist spokesperson for the Republican opposition to President Barack Obama, had this terse comment on the…

October 19, 2014

Seattle protesters tell Biden: ‘No more war!’

Demonstrators in Seattle protested the wars against Iraq and Syria when Joe Biden visited the city on Oct. 9. The…

October 17, 2014

In ‘war on ISIS,’ the main enemy is at home

The Turkish government decided Oct. 12 to permit U.S. fighter-bombers to launch attacks on Syrian targets from Incirlik Air Force…

October 13, 2014