Palestine
US OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST! Stop the Genocide and Imperialist War
US OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST! Stop the Genocide and Imperialist War. Presentation by Joseph Daher, who is an internationalist anticapitalist and an academic. He teaches at Lausanne University, Switzerland and at the university of Ghent, Belgium. He is the author of Marxism and Palestine (2024) Syria after the Uprisings (2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (2016). He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.
Reading Rosa Luxemburg in an Era of Barbarism
At the outset of the unprecedented carnage and destruction of the first World War, Rosa Luxemburg, the German-Polish revolutionary leader and thinker wrote:
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.’ … Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. … Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery. Or the victory of socialism, that means the conscious active struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism and its method of war.
Harris and Walz form “Team A” of US Imperialism
The Harris-Walz ticket will not change the U.S. commitment to war and imperialism. In fact, it will expand it under the cover of domestic liberalism.
Tim Walz is a retired master Army sergeant amd long-time member of the National Guard. He has voted to fund almost every way the U.S. has fought since 2007. He has actually voted to the right of many Democrats when it comes to funding U.S. wars.
The Movement of College Encampments for Palestine: an introductory analysis
The mass mobilization of pro-Palestine students over the last couple months has truly been a sight to see. Spreading like wildfire in the states & eventually spanning the globe, this wave of student encampments has called Power out by its rightful name: genocide enabler.
Student-activists have been occupying their schools and demanding the divestment of these various foundations from the settler-colonial project of Israel. A handful of other demands have been put forth as well, responding to each locale’s varying needs. Students at our UW-Madison also demanded a cop-free campus, for example.
Of course, any earnest challenging of the state & its interests in the military industrial complex will be met with a vicious response. Brute force
We Need Mass Organizing to Defeat State Violence
Marx, Lenin, and other theorists of socialism are teaching me how the state and capitalism function, which in turn has helped me to understand imperialism, colonialism, oppression, and my own lived experiences.
Additionally, Marxist history has taught me the power of the working class. When discussing and deciding democratically with clear intention and action, the outcomes have better results—but of course not without repression from the state. The immense and powerful state violence is an essential topic for us to discuss. How do we protect ourselves? How do we hold ground? How do we support, and gain support in numbers?
