Jordan has joined the list of countries where the people no longer content themselves with the crumbs offered by parliamentary window-dressing, but walk out onto the streets in their thousands and tens of thousands in order to create…
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So finally Nikol Pashinian, leader of the mass uprising in Armenia, has attained his dream of becoming the prime minister of the Caucasian republic. On 8 May, in an election in which he was the sole candidate, the Armenian parliament…
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Today, 25 March 2017, is the 60th anniversary to the day of the signing of the Rome Treaty, which set in motion the whole historical process that culminated in the European Union, after going through the stages of the European Economic…
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Ο Τύπος ανέφερε ότι κατά την επίσκεψη του στη Δυτική Θράκη, όπου ζει μια αξιοσημείωτη τουρκική μειονότητα, ο Αλέξης Τσίπρας, ο Έλληνας πρωθυπουργός, επικαλέστηκε το όνομα του Σεΐχη Μπεντρεντίν, τον επαίνεσε και είπε ότι θα πρέπει να…
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We can enumerate countless reasons for Trump’s election victory. But the main reason lying behind all the others is the Third Great Depression. The world has entered a new stage after the great financial crash in 2008. What started after…
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As the state of emergency regime of Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP steps up its persecution of working class and Kurdish opposition, two prominent leaders of the younger generation of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP) have been submitted…
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So Brexit is here. Fifty-two per cent of the British people voted to leave the EU. This is an historic outcome. Britain, that is to say the world’s fifth and Europe’s second biggest economy, a country where Europe’s foremost financial…
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Since the failed coup attempt of 15 July, there is a lingering suspicion that the United States was aware of the planned coup, may have been consulted before or during the events by some at least of the forces involved in the coup, or…
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Τα δραματικά γεγονότα που εκτυλίχθηκαν στην Τουρκία τη νύχτα της 15ης προς 16η Ιουλίου έχουν περιοριστεί υπερβολικά στον αγώνα μέχρις εσχάτων ανάμεσα σε δύο Ισλαμικά ρεύματα, αυτό του AKP υπό τη σιδερένια γροθιά του Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν…
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Τη νύχτα της 15ης προς 16η Ιουλίου, η Τουρκία πέρασε δια μέσου κατακλυσμικών γεγονότων που άφησε τον κόσμο άφωνο: ένα τεράστιο κομμάτι των ενόπλων δυνάμεων της χώρας προσπάθησε να υφαρπάξει την εξουσία από την κυβέρνηση του Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ…
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We should meet the workers and the youth, the Afro-American militants of Black Lives Matter and the defenders of the environment where they are in order to convince them that the only realistic solution is for a coalition formed around the…
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Turkey’s elections have stunned the whole world. A turnaround of such a magnitude in a matter of five months is probably unprecedented in electoral history. Having lost a full one fifth of its electorate (nine percentage points) in the…
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The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what would possibly turn out to be hundreds of thousands of people, leading…
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The Kurdish town of Cizre, a settlement with a population of approximately 150 thousand souls in Southeastern Turkey, is now under siege of the Turkish armed forces and the so-called “special operation force” of the police for a second…
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Λοιπόν, επιτέλους, παρ’ όλους τους μαιάνδρους τις λοξοδρομήσεις και παρακάμψεις της ιστορίας, η λογική των κοινωνικών αγώνων έβαλε τελικά τη σφραγίδα της στην πολιτική της Τουρκίας. Η ηχηρή ήττα του Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν και του ΑΚΡ στις…
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Turkey is going through a period that brings together an electoral process and a big strike movement with a great potential of leaving its imprint on the future of the country. General elections are taking place on Sunday, 7th June. The…
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On April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, politicians and community leaders were rounded in Istanbul (or Constantinople as it was then called in the West) by the Ottoman state, to be subsequently sent to exile from which most…
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Solidarity with the French people around the world implies encouraging the exercise of the freedom of expression in France despite the threat by the fundamentalists. It does not mean that all things French, including France's imperialist…
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31 May was the anniversary of the eruption of the popular rebellion in Turkey that has gone under the name of Gezi Park around the world. On that anniversary, a virtual state of emergency was established in Istanbul, with 25 thousand…
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The recent conquest by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) of large chunks of Iraq, starting with the city of Falluja and parts of Ramadi some six months ago, and then since 10 June, the successive taking of Mosul, the second…
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