Days of protests in Iran have caught statesmen, analysts and observers by surprise, even though the anti-austerity and anti-establishment sentiments behind this primarily working-class revolt have been brewing for years. All the same, surprise is not a common reaction across the media. An early analysis offered in a tweet by the popular and self-styled Marxist pundit, Ali Alizadeh, captures a sentiment which is common across an array of responses to these events from individuals and groups as disparate, in both aim and ideas, as the Iranian reformists, the Iranian postcolonial left, and middle class Iranians both inside and outside Iran. Alizadeh asks: “Do you realize that it is because [the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)] is secured and external threats [to Iran’s national security] have been minimized [by the policies of the IRI], that the right to protest [inside Iran] is now recognized [by the IRI government]?…[This is why I] insist that [regional] security is the prerequisite to everything else, including [civil, political and personal] freedoms.” ... read full story / add a comment

The protests against the high cost of living in the cities of Khorasan province on December 28th soon spread to many cities of Iran incredibly quick and almost turned into a revolt within a week. The protests primarily targeted the high cost of living, financial difficulties and corruption. However, they quickly became politicized and began to target the foundations of the Islamic Republic (IR), namely the religious autocracy. The slogans quickly turned from “death to high cost of living” to “death to the dictator.” ... read full story / add a comment

Il Contratto Sociale dei Cantoni della Rojava nel Kurdistan occidentale (Siria). [English] ... read full story / add a comment

The Social Contract of Rojava Cantons in West Kurdistan (Syria). [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment

En el entorno del Foro de San Pablo que acaba [mediados de 2012] de realizarse en Caracas, se llevó a cabo un evento con delegados del Congreso Nacional del Kurdistán, (con sede en Bélgica). Entre ellos se encontraba Mehemet Ali Dogan, miembro del Comité de Relaciones Internacionales de esa institución. Llegaron a traernos la voz del pueblo kurdo, a contarnos de su situación, sus necesidades y aspiraciones y también, según su declaración explícita, a escuchar las voces, propuestas y logros del Foro de San Pablo para enriquecer sus experiencias y su lucha.

Quienes teníamos una idea más o menos informada de la situación de este pueblo, vimos ampliamente expandida nuestra visión sobre ellos y su situación histórica, social y política. Volvimos a reafirmar que se trata de un pueblo sufrido, perseguido, combatido y discriminado, que ha luchado sin treguas para hacer sobrevivir su cultura, sus saberes y su devenir histórico. ... read full story / add a comment

إصابة العشرات بحالات الاختناق الشديد بالغاز السام في قرية بلعين غرب رام الله. ... read full story / add a comment

Los chiítas de Bahrein, de nuevo en efervescencia, denuncian el doble rasero que evidencia la falta de apoyo árabe e internacional, sobre todo de EEUU, a su movimiento de protesta, motivado, a su juicio, por su confesión religiosa y por las sospechas de sus lazos con Irán. ... read full story / add a comment

per uscire dallo schema duale Fatah Hamas, presentazione dei movimenti di sinistra e dei comitati popolari palestinesi ... read full story / add a comment

It started in mid-July, when Dafni Leef, a Tel Aviv filmmaker, was met with a hike in her rent that she couldn't afford to pay. Instead of moving to a new apartment, she moved to a tent on Rothschild Boulevard, the city's sleekest thoroughfare, and set up a Facebook event calling for her compatriots to join her. And they did: first, scattered hundreds - then, on Saturday, July 30, over 300,000 people in Tel Aviv alone, with tents mushrooming across the country, in self-conscious defiance of state-peddled neoliberalism.
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Sono mesi e settimane che un forte movimento sta attraversando il cosiddetto "Mondo Arabo", il quale non è altro che una parte dell'intero mondo capitalistico. Paesi come la Tunisia, l'Egitto, lo Yemen, il Bahrain, la Libia, la Siria ed altri, e città come Tunisi, Gafsa, Sfax, Kasserine, Cairo, Alessandria, Suez, San'a', Aden, Tripoli, Bengasi, Misrata, Tobruch, Damasco, Der'a, Latakia, Homs ed altre sono investite da una incandescente rabbia sociale. [English] ... read full story / add a comment

Since weeks and months a strong movement is taking place in the so-called "Arab world", which is nothing but a part of the whole world of capital. Countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, etc., cities like Tunis, Gafsa, Sfax, Kasserine, Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, Sanaa, Aden, Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata, Tobruk, Damas, Deraa, Lattakia, Homs, etc. are in fire and burning from our social anger. Protests and demonstrations, clashes with police and special units, mass and violent strikes, lootings, burnings down of banks and state institutions, actions of solidarity and agitation, setting up committees and "shoras"... all that and many others are expressions of the proletarian movement that has been spreading across these regions. It is our class perspective what emerges from these "popular revolts" â in organising structures for distribution of food and medical help outside and against exchange relations like in Misrata e.g., as in workers destroying headquarters of Egyptian official trade union or in revolutionary defeatist demonstrations in Saudi Arabia against their "own" troops being sent to crush the rebellion in Bahrain. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment

La Organización de la Resistencia Islámica (Hamas) y el Movimiento de Liberación de Palestina al-Fatah sellaron un acuerdo de reconciliación para posibilitar la formación de un Gobierno de unidad nacional y la celebración de elecciones en el plazo de un año. ... read full story / add a comment

Al principio Laura Ruiz de Elvira consideraba poco probable que la primavera árabe llegase a Siria. Ahora esta investigadora dedicada a Siria en el Instituto Francés de Oriente Próximo cree que "la revolución está en marcha". "Hay muchos factores que apuntan a que el régimen caerá", apunta. ... read full story / add a comment

Las revueltas del hambre que sacuden al mundo árabe pueden ser apenas las primeras oleadas del gran tsunami social que se está engendrando en las profundidades de los pueblos más pobres del planeta. ... read full story / add a comment

The revolution underway in Egypt is being closely watched by Gaza's youth who see it as a source of empowerment and inspiration. It has stirred our sentiments and has moved us to take to the streets to show our solidarity with our neighbors in Egypt. We attempt to absorb every minute event so as to carry it through the years when we will be able to tell our children how proud we were to have lived through one of the greatest and most inspirational events in the history of the Arab world.

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Questa lettera si inserisce all'interno della campagna BDS, per il boicottaggio, disinvestimento e sanzioni nei confronti di Israele fino a che non garantirà il diritto al ritorno dei palestinesi alle loro abitazioni, la fine dell'occupazione militare e la fine della discriminazione dei palestinesi. La campagna nasce nel 2005 da un appello sottoscritto dalle principali 156 organizzazioni della società civile palestinese. Maggiori info qui: http://www.boicottaisraele.it/files/index.php
All'interno di questa chiamata nasce il PACBI, Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, ed il PSCABI, Palestinian Students' Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, ed è proprio da quest'ultimo gruppo di studenti che arriva la lettera.

La cosa importante è che LE PROSSIME SETTIMANE CI SARANNO ASSEMBLEE NELLE PRINCIPALI UNIVRSITÀ DI GAZA (la prima è stata l'altroieri) il cui scopo sarà quello di mettere in contatto studenti di Gaza con studenti fuori di Gaza. L'ideale sarebbe riuscire a fare dei COLLEGAMENTI (skype o simili) TRA LE UNIVERSITÀ GAZAWE E QUELLE ITALIANE. L'avvenimento è molto importante sia perchè gli studenti gazawi possono in questo modo sentire concretamente la solidarietà internazionale che perchè darebbe un punto di riferimento concreto nella striscia al boicottaggio accademico in Italia.

Sarebbe interessante, inoltre, fare un “database” con l'elenco dei rapporti tra le università italiane e quelle israeliane, prendendo i dati dalle diverse università. ... read full story / add a comment

After years of non-violent joint struggle of Palestinian local popular committees with Israeli leftists (with the prominence of the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative among them) a new stage is developing. Lately, the persistent struggles have expanded well beyond the struggle against the separation fence - Sheikh Jarrah and Nabi Saleh, and a general West Bank Coordination Committee was founded, with an AAtW member as internet spokesperson for it. ... read full story / add a comment

Desde el inicio de los ataques en Gaza el pasado 27 de diciembre de 2008, las Fuerzas de Defensa Israelies han estado probando nuevos tipos de armas en diferentes localidades de los territorios ocupados palestinos en Cisjordania. Las nuevas armas consisten en dos nuevos tipos de balas y un nuevo proyectil de gas lacrimógeno. ... read full story / add a comment

Sembravano dei giovani romantici e scontenti del ceto medio israeliano, quando cominciarono nel 2003 a fare azioni dirette contro quel Muro dell'Apartheid che cominciava ad alzarsi minaccioso nella Cisgiordania occupata. ... read full story / add a comment

Residents of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were surprised Thursday morning to find on the doors to their homes mock notices announcing that the flow of electricity to the two cities would be cut off next week. The 10,000 or so fake notices were posted across both cities by some 70 left-wing activists in response to the government's decision to reduce the supply of fuel to the Gaza Strip, and its plan to cut power flow in the near future. ... read full story / add a comment