*** Fighting ISIS is a coalition stretching from U.S. soldiers to Kurdish militias *** Iraq government is dominated by Shia sectarians *** No alternatives to unfair Iraqi government are on the horizon *** ISIS will fall, but another version will arise if injustices remain   The offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, has been going on since mid-October.  It ...

Our political compass should not be magnetized continuously by international capitals like Washington or Moscow, or in the case of the Middle East by the regional capitals of Damascus, Riyadh, Ankara, Tehran and Doha, but guided by the indignation and the resistance of the peoples in struggle.

By Joseph Daher The ceasefire in Syria concluded on September 9, 2016 between the US and Russia came to an end on September 19 at 7pm and ended by a total failure, whether politically, military or in humanitarian term.   For some sections of the “left” and sections of the anti war movement in the USA and UK, the failure ...

Again there is the need to build a united independent democratic, socialist and secular alternative that supports the self-determination of the Kurdish people, which is independent both of the army and the AKP.

Western regimes will not change their strategies regarding the region, our duty as international solidarity movement is to oppose these policies and to support democratic and non sectarian popular movements ....

Peace talks are stalled A promise of airdrops of food starting in June 250,000 are now getting aid Russian “withdrawal” false A campaign to stop recruiting child soldiers The negotiation process between the Assad regime and the Syrian opposition of the National Coalition was still stalled at the end of May 2016, despite statements of representatives of Russia and the ...

The regime wants to empty the liberated territories of their population and prevent the existence of any popular democratic alternative, which are its greatest threat and not the Islamic fundamentalist forces that are its best enemies.

The international solidarity of democratic and progressive organizations around the world, which is still lacking to the Syrian people in struggle for freedom and dignity, is absolutely necessary and must be intensified.

"These massive popular demonstrations with their democratic and non sectarian slogans remind the world, once again, that there is an alternative to the Assad regime and Salafist jihadist movements, the two counter revolutionary actors of the revolution and the two losers of Friday’s demonstration."

We need to support these pockets of hope and the popular (armed and civilian) resistance still existing in Syria and composed of various democratic and progressive groups and movements opposing all sides of the counter-revolution, the Assad regime and Islamic fundamentalist groups. ~ Joseph Daher