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Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian socialist activist, academic and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is part of the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy). He is the author of “Hezbollah: Political Economy of the Party of God” (Pluto Press, 2016) and “Syria after the Uprisings, the Political Economy of State Resilience” (Pluto Press and Haymarket, 2019).

English PEN's latest grants for translations features work originating in Arabic, Farsi, Catalan, French, Chinese, Hindi, and more.

Pannekoek applies his critique to the theories of Luxemburg and Grossman - and shows why capitalism will never collapse due to any internal systemic contradictions, but only by the conscious action of the working class. "The self-emancipation of the proletariat is the collapse of capitalism."

With Ratko Mladic, predator and killer, now in custody, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and the others who have sought to deny justice to the victims of Bosnia's killing fields should apologise to those victims for working so long to make the justice they sought less, not more, likely.

Aufheben present Theorie Communiste's reply and critique of their series of articles on decadence.

The online edition of Bookforum Magazine.

Why Japan’s attack on the US 80 years ago was not a surprise.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (“Pakistani Taliban”) spokesman, Muhammad Khurasani, announced a one-month ceasefire and peace negotiations with the Pakistani state on November 8 (Umar Media, November 9). One day later, the TTP emir, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud ordered the group’s fighters, commanders, and shadow governors through a written statement to strictly follow the ceasefire during this negotiation period and halt …

An Introduction to Class Struggle in the US, 1973-1998

2020 marked an epochal shift in the movement for trans liberation, as the chant “Black Trans Lives Matter” became a feature of the multi-racial, multi-gender rebellions that swept the United States that summer. The popularization of the chant not only expressed the emancipatory desires of the most marginalized section of the trans community, but also signaled the emergence of trans liberation politics within the broader Left.