After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria

After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria

A few weeks after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. It could not be otherwise after 53 years of the strangulation of civil and political life under one of the world’s most murderous regimes. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where...

Stop the Spread of Israel’s Genocidal War into Lebanon!

Summary: On Israel’s brutal assassinations, its colonialist arrogance, and the limitations of Hezbollah’s model of resistance. Approved as a Statement of the Steering Committee of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors With the seeming acquiescence...
Is It Midnight in the Century or a New Dawn?

Is It Midnight in the Century or a New Dawn?

[Presented at American Sociological Association meeting, Montreal, August 2024 and partially drawn from introduction to my new book, A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances (Routledge 2024)] It has become a commonplace to call out the...