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Campaign: Hands off the People of Iran
No to imperialist war! No to the theocratic regime

In memoriam Mansur Khaksar

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Mehdi Kia

Yassamine Mather

Ardeshir Mehrdad

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Aziz Al Azmeh

Hamid Dabashi

Bridget Fowler

Khalil Hindi

Mansour Khaksar

Moshe Machover

István Mészáros

Nasser Mohajer

Younes Parsa Benab

Simon Pirani

Haifa Zangana

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Zionist myths: Hebrew versus Jewish identity	Moshe Machover     May 24
Tunisia: Calm before the storm	Socialist World         May 20
Neoliberal feminism	Yassamine Mather     May 14
Revolution in bad times	Asef Bayat              May 10
Between past and future	Tariq Ali                   May 10
Iran May Day	Yassamine Mather     May 2
Turkey and the Kurds	Yassamine Mather    Apr 15
The Assad regime: from past to present - III	International Marxist Tendency March 25
Iran and Turkey's Kurdish approach	Al Monitor              March 25
Syria: Islamists and Qatar backers force resignation	Syria comment          March 23
Syria: How to start a battalion (in five easy lessons)	Gaith Abdul-Ahad       Feb 28
Iran: Corruption, repression, fightback	Yassamine Mather       Feb 12
The many roles of Turkey in the Syrian crisis	Asli Ilgit, Rochelle Davis  MERIP Report                 Jan 28
Iran: reformists split on election	Yassaman Baji         Feb 7
Israel: Implosions and polarisation	Moshe Machover   Feb 7
What future for Israel	Moshe Machover    Jan 30
Tunesian heritage sites destroyed	AlMonitor          Feb 7
Palestine: Four more years	M Rabbani, C Toensing Jan 5
Jailing journalists in plot-mad Turkey	Michael Dickinson   Jan 2
An ossified language impedes Arab progress?	Robert Fisk           Jan 2 2013
New Party of God divide Kurdish Turkish Islamist	Almonitor               Dec 31
Israel-Gaza: why the attack	Moshe Machover    Dec 21
Tunisian UGGT call off one-day general strike	A Lerougeter, A Lantier   Dec 20
We must talk to Iran - former Israeli spymaster	Laura Rozen            Dec 17
Israel apartheid deepens	Juan Cole                     Dec 14
Egypt: why anti-Musri protestors are right	Ahmad Shokr -  MERIP      Dec 11
Liberalism vs democracy in Egypt	J Brownlee - MERIP        Dec 10
Five notes on Egypt Crisis	Joshua Stacher MERIP     Dec 9
Gaza attack: preparation for Iran	Haarez                   Nov 26
Iranian Communist Party (Kumeleh): Attack on Iran would only harm the people	Rudau                     Nov 26
Syrian Kurds form joint military Council	Rudau                      Nov 26
Inside Israel's twitter war room	Rebecca L Stein     Nov 25
The latest Gaza catastrophe	Robert Fisk        Nov 18
Iran and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty	John Avery        Nov 18
Syria: Leader Muslim Brotherhood rejects Kurdish entity	Rudau                  Nov 7
Egypt: Brotherhood targets trade unions	Al-Akhbar              Nov 7
Kurdish resistance may break the Syrian rebels	Mike Giglio            Nov 7
Fissures in Hezbollah's edifice of control	M. Harb & L Deep   Nov 3
Looking for revolution in Kuwait	M.A. Tetreault        Nov 2
Too late to stem Middle East covert war	Victor Kotsev          Oct 23
Separation in Iranian universities	Shahrokni, Dokuhaki  Oct 20
Remapping the Middle East	Claudio Gallo      Sep 5
Syria: seeking a new redivision	Eddie Ford          Sep 1
Turkish left view on Kurds - part 1	Esen Uslu              Sep 1
Syria and anti-imperialism	Richard Seymour   Aug 24
Israel ups ante against Iran: Bluff?	Trita Parsi             Aug 18
Bibi's secret plan on Iran	R Silverstein         Aug 16
Israel: Possible military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities	US Congress report   March 28
Kurds stir the regional pot	Partick Searle      Aug 2
Egypt labour strikes	Mostafa Ali         Aug 2
Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy	Robert Fisk          Aug 1
Syrian Kurds: interview with PYD leader	Salih Muslim        July 19
Egyptian workers mass strike	Johannes Stern    July 19
Failed emergence of Egypt, Turkey and Iran	Semir Amin          June 23
Iran: regime change must come from below	Yassamine Mather  June 22
Saudi Revolutionaries: an interview	Rosie Bsheer          June 22
Houla massacre by Syrian 'rebels'?	Clara Weiss            June 16
First round of presidential elections in Egypt	Semir Amin              June 4
Revolutionary Socialists & the Egyptian elections:	Alan Woods           June 1
Iran: interview with Hossein Mousavian	Asli Bali             May 21
Iranian cyber-struggles	Narges Bajoghli    May 21
Syria faces neo-mujahideen struggle	Victor Kotsev  Apr 29
Myths of limited Israeli-Iranian war	James Petras    Apr 28
Who do Egyptian villagers vote for. And Why?	Yasmine M Ahmed                               Apr 14
Our man in Iran	Seymour Hersh     Apr 12
Tarabut-Hithabrut movement: Supporting the Syrian uprising	April 4
Ankara ups the ante on Syria	Jacques N Couvas                                 Mar 29
Iraq: Kurdish moves to secession	Salah Nasrawi                                        Mar 28
The Syrian regime's business backbone	Bassam Haddad                                    Mar 23
Hamas and Hezbollah: Weathering the Syrian storm	Qassem Qassem    Mar 23
The last president of Iran?	Yassamine Mather                                 Mar 14
Egypt: military and Islamist links rumour	Bissan Kassab      Mar 13
The left and the people: extending Dabashi's critique	Vijay Prasad        Mar 4
The end of taking the Syrian revolution at face value	Bassam Haddad  Mar 3
The ordoliberals and Adam Smith's invisible hand	Werner Bonefeld    Feb 29
Iran: Threat opposition & solidarity	Yassamine Mather   Feb 29
Natanyahu's war wish	Moshe Machover  Feb 16
Revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie	Slavoj Sizek         Feb 10
Saudi labour strikes: rebirth of a suppressed tradition	Iman al-Qwaifili     Feb 6
Separation: Film review	Yassamine Mather  Feb 5
Egypt: Islamists courted by imperialists	Yassamine Mather                                    Jan 23
Paralysis of 'either-or' strategy in Palestine	Salim Tamari            Jan 22
Road to Tantua	Film by Hala Gabriel                                 Jan 20
Will new sanctions on Iran cost Obama his presidency?	Juan Cole               Jan 5
Class and capitalism in the Gulf - the political economy of the GCC	Adam Hanieh, Ed Lewis                  Jan 4
Iraq after withdrawal II: the spectre of sects	Alaa al-Lami              Jan 3
Iran: narrowing the options on the table	Farideh Farhi        Dec 16
Explaining the longevity of the Iranian regime	Yassamine Mather                                Dec 15
The stochastic approach to political economy: A radical alternative	Moshe Machover Dec 7
In Egypt street protests set the agenda	Mona El-Ghobashi                                 Nov 28
Who said Gaddafi had to go?	Hugh Roberts       Nov 15
Egypt's bloody Sunday	Mariz Tardoz          Oct 19
Explaining the longevity of the Iranian regime	Yassamine Mather Oct 10
'Zionist' negotiating strategy' sham	Moshe Machover  Oct 1
Instant obsolescencClass e of the Turkish model	Spengler         Aug 10
Iran: Reformists crave reconciliation	Yassamine Mather                                Aug 6
Egypt: The Islamists are coming	Amani Maged   Aug 3
Arab spring and the role of unity	Moshé Machover Jul 30
Unfolding the Syrian paradox	Alastair Crooke July 21
Nato's civilian victims in Libya	Franklin Lamb   July 15
Pakistan, the army and the conflict within	P Hoodbhoy       July 14
Egypt: striking back at Egyptian workers	Hesham Sallam   July 13
Libya: an uncertain future - a report	Paris May 2011
Syria: interview with Wajdy Mustafa	June 20
What next in Iran?	Josh Eideleson   June 19
Did Egypt really open Rifah crossing?	Ramzy Barud     June 19
Al-Qaeda leader targets near enemy	M B al-Shishani June 18
Syria: Allies not leaders	Bassel Oudat     June 18
Iran: It won't be easy	Hamid Dabashi  May 21
Iran: Khamenei chastises Ahmadinejad	Yassamine Mather May 20
No exit: Yemen's existential crisis	Sheila Carapico  May 18
Bahrain unrest: Medical neutrality violated	BMJ editorial     May 15
The reawakening of Nahda in Tunesia	Graham Usher    May 12
Asad's lost chances	Carsten Wieland                                      May 11
The praxis of the Egyptian revolution	Mona el-Ghobashi May 10
Egypt's revolution 100 days on	Scott Burchill     May 9
Egypt's workers: between party politics and unionisation	Noha El-Hennawy May 1
Bahrain: wounded arrested in hospitals	MSF                    Apr 15
Palestine: Permanent temporariness	Alastair Crook    Apr 11
Long Road to Arab Revolution	Moshe Machover Apr 10
Libya: Obama's Franco moment	James Petras       Apr 10
Egypt without Mubarak	Joshua Stacher    Apr 7
Who are the Libyan freedom fighters and their patrons?	Peter Dale Scott  Mar 30

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