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Building in Gaza ablaze after new Israeli attacks

Trump-fuelled Israeli genocidal war machine shatters ceasefire in Gaza

By Serge Jordan, PRMI. 19 March 2025 In the dead of night, in the midst of Ramadan, the Israeli regime resumed its mass bombing of Gaza, obliterating any remaining semblance of holding onto what was already an increasingly precarious and threatened ceasefire. The claim that Israel merely targeted Hamas operatives in this new barrage of […]

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Mahmoud Khalil

Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free Palestine! End the genocide now!

Editorial from the latest issue of The Socialist, Ireland. 14 March 2025 As we go to print, Mahmoud Khalil, a key organiser of the Palestine solidarity encampment in Columbia University in New York City, has been arrested and is being threatened with deportation from the United States. This is despite possessing a Green Card, giving

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Syria: Horrific sectarian violence flares—but workers show another way

By Serge Jordan, 11 March 2025 The last few days in Syria have brought another grim chapter in the country’s long and bloody crisis. More than 1,000 people, the majority civilians, were slaughtered in the western coastal areas in three days of clashes and sectarian revenge killings.  The gruesome images of executions have flooded social

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Trump’s abhorrent plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza

By Socialist Party Ireland reporters, 6 February 2025 The Gaza genocide is continuing. Trump has announced an outrageous plan for the wholesale ethnic cleansing of its two million Palestinians, even hinting that US troops may be used to enforce this. As if talking about one of his corrupt land deals, he announced the US would

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Destroyed areas of Gaza

Ceasefire in Gaza: The struggle against Genocide and Occupation isn’t over

By PRMI reporters 18 January 2025 “This is a day of happiness, and sadness, a shock and joy, but certainly it is a day we all must cry and cry long because of what we all lost. We did not lose friends, relatives, and homes only, we lost our city, Israel sent us back in

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Syria after Assad: rising from the ashes, the struggle for liberation continues

By Serge Jordan 12 January 2025 The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long dictatorship last December has dramatically reshuffled the cards of Syria’s future. A sense of freedom and jubilation broke through among many Syrians following over five decades of tyranny. However, it is tempered by fear and unease, as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), now the

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Celebrations sweep Syria, but what comes next?

The brutal over-half-century-long Assad-dictatorship has fallen in Syria. Thousands and thousands of political prisoners have been able to reunite with their families, many after years during which they were thought dead. Millions more who were internally displaced are rejoicing as they reunite with their families. The grip of fear losing its hold on people has

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Stop the Genocide in Gaza and the spiraling bloodshed in the Middle East

By Serge Jordan 29 October 2024 For more than a year, the world has been watching in horror in real-time as the Gaza Strip has been enduring one of the most destructive and merciless bombing campaigns in history—an unrelenting assault of genocidal proportions. Yet the machinery of death and destruction wielded by the Israeli State

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