Middle East Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/movements-and-struggles/middle-east/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:33:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Middle East Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/movements-and-struggles/middle-east/ 32 32 22825446 The Baku Congress of 1920 Sounded the Call for the End of Empire https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/30/the-baku-congress-of-1920-sounded-the-call-for-the-end-of-empire/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/30/the-baku-congress-of-1920-sounded-the-call-for-the-end-of-empire/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:06:44 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6167 The following centennial appreciation of the September 1920 Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East first appeared in Jacobin, and is reprinted with permission. By John Riddell: A century ago this month, the new Soviet government summoned anti-colonial revolutionaries from across Asia to a gathering in Baku. The Baku Congress proved to be a […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/30/the-baku-congress-of-1920-sounded-the-call-for-the-end-of-empire/feed/ 2 6167 Remembering the Martyrs of Deir Yassin 1948-2020 https://johnriddell.com/2020/05/02/remembering-the-martyrs-of-deir-yassin-1948-2020/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/05/02/remembering-the-martyrs-of-deir-yassin-1948-2020/#comments Sat, 02 May 2020 13:18:25 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5714 In 1948, Zionist terrorists in Palestine attacked and destroyed the village of Deir Yassin, located on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. The Toronto chapter of Independent Jewish Voices asked me to commemorate this event through the following brief report to its meeting of April 30. Here is my report, posted with permission of IJV. — […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/05/02/remembering-the-martyrs-of-deir-yassin-1948-2020/feed/ 3 5714 Toronto Pro-Israel Extremists Force Cancellation of a Pro-Israel Meeting https://johnriddell.com/2020/01/09/toronto-pro-israel-extremists-force-cancellation-of-a-pro-israel-meeting/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/01/09/toronto-pro-israel-extremists-force-cancellation-of-a-pro-israel-meeting/#respond Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:49:56 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5562 Undemocratic IHRA Redefinition Has Unexpected Result By John Riddell: York University’s Centre for Jewish Studies has cancelled a proposed pro-Israel meeting “after the organizers learned of plans to disrupt the event,” reports the January 9, 2020, edition of Canadian Jewish News (CJN). The disruption threat came from an extremist pro-Israel group, Jewish Defense League, with […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/01/09/toronto-pro-israel-extremists-force-cancellation-of-a-pro-israel-meeting/feed/ 0 5562 UN Office calls for probe into human rights in Kashmir https://johnriddell.com/2018/07/16/un-office-calls-for-probe-into-human-rights-in-kashmir/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/07/16/un-office-calls-for-probe-into-human-rights-in-kashmir/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:39:12 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5095 Violence, threats of war mount in divided territory By John Riddell. A conference in Mississauga July 7, convened by the Kashmir Welfare Society, marked the first organized response in Canada to a United Nations report calling for an investigation of human rights violations in this divided South Asian territory. More than 200 participants adopted a […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/07/16/un-office-calls-for-probe-into-human-rights-in-kashmir/feed/ 1 5095 Iranian Canadian Congress: ‘Canada must defend the Iran Nuclear Deal’ https://johnriddell.com/2018/05/23/iranian-canadian-congress-canada-must-defend-the-iran-nuclear-deal/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/05/23/iranian-canadian-congress-canada-must-defend-the-iran-nuclear-deal/#respond Wed, 23 May 2018 20:01:53 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5064 By John Riddell. The following statement by the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC) and nine other signatories calls on the Justin Trudeau government to “defend the Iran Nuclear Deal as an important victory for international diplomacy, peace and non-proliferation.” The ICC is Canada’s largest organization of Iranian Canadians. The joint statement, issued May 10, 2018, is […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/05/23/iranian-canadian-congress-canada-must-defend-the-iran-nuclear-deal/feed/ 0 5064 Protests in Iran: The international dimension https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/19/protests-in-iran-the-international-dimension/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/19/protests-in-iran-the-international-dimension/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:51:33 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4947 By John Riddell: The four articles on social protests in Iran published on January 2 and 9 in Socialist Project’s online blog, The Bullet, offer little on-the-spot news but raise major issues of political analysis that deserve attention. In particularly, the articles do not link progressive struggles by worker and social movements within the country […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/01/19/protests-in-iran-the-international-dimension/feed/ 7 4947 The Gaza slaughter: Not in my name https://johnriddell.com/2014/08/26/the-gaza-slaughter-not-in-my-name/ https://johnriddell.com/2014/08/26/the-gaza-slaughter-not-in-my-name/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:26:55 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1979 Suzanne Weiss is a Holocaust survivor and Palestine solidarity activist based in Toronto. Here, she comments on the stand taken by anti-Zionist Jews against Israel’s massacres in Gaza – and on the real history of the Nazi Holocaust and the resistance to it. First published in Socialist Worker. By Suzanne Weiss. I am proud to […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2014/08/26/the-gaza-slaughter-not-in-my-name/feed/ 2 1979 ‘Canadian Charger’ must oppose Ottawa’s fake ‘anti-terrorism’ list https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/11/canadian-charger-must-oppose-ottawas-fake-anti-terrorism-list/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/11/canadian-charger-must-oppose-ottawas-fake-anti-terrorism-list/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:43:27 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1713 On December 11, 2013, the Canadian Charger, a web-based weekly with many readers in the Muslim community, formally retracted its editorial call for the Harper government to place Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on its fake “anti-terrorism” list. The Charger thus responded to a wave of protests of its damaging editorial, published in its December 4 issue. Along […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/11/canadian-charger-must-oppose-ottawas-fake-anti-terrorism-list/feed/ 2 1713 Solidarity Saved Me from Hitler: Now It Must Save Palestine https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/08/solidarity-saved-me-from-hitler-now-it-must-save-palestine/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/08/solidarity-saved-me-from-hitler-now-it-must-save-palestine/#respond Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:19:14 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1706 In October 2013 I accompanied Suzanne Weiss in a trip back into the history of rural France under Nazi occupation. Suzanne’s interviews there provided a framework for the following talk given by her to Solidarity for Palestine Human Rights at the University of Western Ontario on November 20, 2013. A portion of her speech has […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/08/solidarity-saved-me-from-hitler-now-it-must-save-palestine/feed/ 0 1706 Five precedents for understanding Egypt’s July coup https://johnriddell.com/2013/09/15/five-precedents-for-understanding-egypts-july-coup/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/09/15/five-precedents-for-understanding-egypts-july-coup/#comments Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:54:35 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1681 By John Riddell. Two months after Egypt’s generals ousted its elected Muslim Brotherhood government, there is still a wide spectrum of views among socialists regarding the meaning of this event. (See my “Egypt: Socialists Need to Rethink”) This discussion can be deepened by considering a few precedents from socialist history – some well known, others […]

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