In the U.S. president's vision for the Middle East, his goal for Iran mirrors his approach to Venezuela: Installing a compliant regime that aligns with American economic interests. Democracy is not part of the plan, and neither are Israel's long-term interests U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the White House on Tuesday. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP The joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is not merely an attempt to (…)

The following text is based on a lecture delivered in Arabic on 22 January 2016, at the symposium on “Five Years Since the Arab Revolutions : The Difficulties and Consequences of Democratic Transition”, held at the American University of Beirut and convened by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. The Arabic text was first published in the now-defunct Marxist journal Bidayat, n° 16, 2017. Undoubtedly, the (…)

Bohdan Krawchenko, vétéran de la gauche ukrainienne de la diaspora, retrace dans cet entretien avec Spilne (Commons) la généalogie de la gauche anti-stalinienne ukrainienne, des camps de personnes déplacées d'après-guerre jusqu'à la gauche ukrainienne d'aujourd'hui. Co-fondateur du journal marxiste Critique et de la revue Dii͡aloh, il a consacré quinze ans à bâtir les institutions d'administration publique de l'Ukraine indépendante. Il avance que la tradition sociale ukrainienne est (…)