Israeli newspaper Haaretz: Netanyahu Bears Responsibility: ‘expansion of settlements & bolstering of Jewish presence on Temple Mount, near Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as boasts of an impending peace deal with Saudis in which the Palestinians would get nothing’ haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

Cannot recommend Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel/Gaza enough. It's far outstripping everyone else today for its depth and insight. Streaming on YouTube here: youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDW…

Another horrific attack on Afghan immigrant workers in Iran, following weeks of verbal attacks by Iranian authorities who try to distract from domestic problems, which align with an xenophobic, nationalist narrative reinvigorated by the new rightwing 'anti-globalist' discourse

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.

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#OtD 4 October 1945, US President Harry Truman ordered the Navy to seize half of the US's oil refining capacity in order to break a three-week strike of the nation's oil workers. More info in this excellent book about mass strikes in the United States: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/bo…

Great to see Narges Mohammadi has been shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is currently in prison in Iran for her activities for women’s rights and against the death penalty

#Unevendevelopment #Coal #labour In this chapter, I explore how the uneven and combined development of India’s coal industry since the late colonial period shaped unevenness among its labour forces and led to the fragmentation of the worker's solidarity. doi.org/10.1515/978311…

Saddened and angered about the arrest of Ali Abdi in Iran.

While the world's attention is elsewhere, the Iranian government is systematically dismantling civil society, aiming to stifle dissent and silence the voices of youth activism.

The global education community should speak out. iranhumanrights.org/2023/09/academ…

Our book 'Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prisons', written with Jaber Baker, will be out next week in English. The first book review, published by The New Arab is soundly positive: 'compelling', 'comprehensive', and 'systematic'. #syria #gulag

The ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan provides a good case to study under which circumstances (political alliances rather than religion as suggested in post below) 'humanitarian intervention' becomes mantra in capitals of Europe and North America

For populists, the working class is only useful by being obediently incorporated into their political project of securing capitalism in times of crises. This was true for Khomeini, Peron and Tim Scott. You strike, you are out

Gesprek met VK: De protesten in Iran afgelopen weekend waren minder grootschalig dan velen hadden gehoopt en verwacht. Hoe kan dat? Historicus Peyman Jafari zoekt – naast de overmacht aan politie – een verklaring. ‘De vonk is onvoldoende overgesprongen.’ volkskrant.nl/buitenland/vee…