Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, December 16, 2024 For most of the time since its 1946 independence from France, Syria has resisted all attempts to make it a vassal state. It has paid dearly, as a target of subversion, war, occupation and the most onerous economic sanctions in the world, for its anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism, its support for[…]
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UNAC Statement, December 10, 2024 This is a moment to salute and remember the martyrs and resistance fighters in Syria, who for decades and against all odds held firm against U.S. imperialist domination. Because imperialism has no solutions the struggle will regroup and break forth again and each time at a higher level. After the U.S. backed surge of mercenaries[…]
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by Haidar Mustafa, published on Syria Support Movement, November 30, 2024 In his speech announcing Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire with Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a direct threat to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning him of “playing with fire.” Those words came mere hours before armed terrorist factions from Idlib launched a shock offensive on Syrian army positions[…]
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by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, November 20, 2024 For over a year, the capitalist media has falsely portrayed Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Palestine as a war between Israel and Hamas, the resistance group that launched the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. The Flood was a heroic challenge to apartheid conditions imposed on Palestinians since[…]
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Statement by Socialist Action US, November 14, 2024 The eyes of the world are riveted on Palestine. After 13 months of a genocidal bombardment and invasion of Gaza, and now Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran and Iraq, the Zionist state has killed at least 50,000 people, two-thirds of whom are women and children, leaving over 100,000 injured, and at least 10,000[…]
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by Sondos Asem, published by Defend Democracy Press, November 13, 2024 Editor’s Note: This would normally come from the Security Council. However a Uniting for Peace initiative would be able to do it. The letter is still open for signatures. Please have a look for the details and also if you are interested in signing. By Sondos Asem, Nov 8,[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, September 27, 2024 Editor’s note: This is late, but it is important to understand the true face of the revolution now taking place in West Asia. Israel assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024) because he refused to stop the attacks on northern Israel until the Israelis ended the genocide against the Palestinians. During the[…]
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by Paul Larudee, October 26, 2024 It is apparently not much of an exaggeration to say that Israel’s attack on Iran fizzled. Some targets were hit and at least two Iranian soldiers were killed, but the ineffectiveness of the operation was probably due to several factors: Israel just doesn’t have the weaponry. Most of its missiles don’t have the distance,[…]
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by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, October 20, 2024 The international community is united in their condemnation of the actions of Israel upon the civilians in Gaza, with a death now well over 40,000, and the attacks on Lebanon which have killed and injured civilians who have no connection to Hezbollah. The UN General Assembly has voted for a[…]
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by Ellen Isaacs, published on Countercurrents, September 23, 2024 Editor’s Note: Another much needed perspective that has been in the queue for too long. [jb] Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” – intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping on the environment and health[…]
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