Maroc & Sahara occidental
Maroc : Mohcine Fikri, né en 1985, célibataire, vendeur de poisson : C’est le makhzen qui l’a tué.
5 novembre, par G. Souad

Vendredi 28 octobre 2016
Al Hoceima : Mohcine Fikri a été arrêté par plusieurs agents de la police à la sortie du port d’Al Hoceima. Ces derniers, l’ont arrêté pour contrôle. Ils lui ont saisi le poisson qu’il allait vendre au marché comme il le fait d’habitude. Sans prendre la peine de le mener au (...)

History, analyses, debates
“Learning to Think” today – On the debate about the war in Syria and Left stand
2 November, by SMITH Ashley

Socialist Worker has republished a 1938 essay by Leon Trotsky, called “Learn to Think,” about imperialism and liberation struggles, which is already available on ESSF website . We are reproducing below the opening comment by Ashley Smith to SW publication.
THE LEFT and antiwar formations are in (...)
History, analyses, debates
Syria & Middle East: Without compelling change on ground there is no end for war
24 October, by ACHCAR Gilbert, EZZAT Dina

Without compelling change on ground there is no end for war in Syria, says prominent political scientist Gilbert Achcar.
With US President Barack Obama approaching the final weeks of his time in the Oval Office, it is clear he is leaving behind an incomplete vision for democracy and peace in (...)
Syria
Syria’s “Voice of Conscience” has a message for the West – "It came to me as a shock that most of the left have sided with Bashar al-Assad
26 October, by al-HAJJ SALEH Yassine, HISHAM Marwan, HUSSAIN Murtaza

YASSIN AL-HAJ SALEH has lived a life of struggle for his country. Under the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad, he was a student activist organizing against the government. In 1980, Saleh and hundreds of others were arrested and accused of membership in a left-wing political group. He was just 19 (...)