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Eyewitness from Raqqa: ‘Isis plundered our lives’
SARA tells Swedish journalist Patrik Paulov what it was like living in the terrorist caliphate in Syria
Raqqa, Isis's former capital, lies in ruins after the jihadists were defeated by Kurdish-led forces in October 2017
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN NOVEMBER 2015 I was invited by the local Trade Union Education Association (ABF) to a seminar to talk about the Syrian war and the rise of terrorism in the Middle East.
In the meeting hall in a small city in the south of Sweden, many in the audience had their roots in the Middle East. Some of them had been in Sweden for a long time, others had come here as refugees with experiences of Isis terror.
After the lecture, a group of high school girls came up to me. Several of them came from Syria and they had a question: “In school, we talked about Isis. It was the United States that created Isis, wasn’t it?”
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