Had Iran wanted to seriously escalate its conflict with Israel, its response to the Damascus embassy bombing would have looked very different.
Iran's dramatic attack on Israel on April 13 was no bolt from the blue. It had been building for years, in response to Israel's increasingly brazen attacks on Iranian targets across the region — from weapons depots used by Iran's regional allies to the Islamic Republic's own nuclear scientists and senior military officials. After October 7, these (...)

Depuis 1954, le Comité pour la mémoire de Sneevliet organise chaque année, vers le 13 avril, une réunion commémorative sur le terrain du crématorium « Velsen » à Driehuis/Westerveld. C'est également là que se trouve le mémorial érigé en l'honneur de Henk Sneevliet et de ses compagnons de lutte. C'est là que nous rendons hommage aux socialistes-révolutionnaires tombés au combat et à leur lutte pour le socialisme et la liberté. Cette commémoration a explicitement aussi pour objet la lutte (...)

J'écris aux Israéliens qui pensent qu'il n'y a pas de place dans leur cœur pour Gaza, pour qu'ils comprennent comment nous en sommes arrivés à cette terrible guerre - et comment nous devons en sortir.
Maisons détruites lors du massacre du 7 octobre dans le kibboutz Kfar Aza, dans le sud d'Israël, le 7 avril 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Un peu plus de six mois se sont écoulés depuis le 7 octobre, et la vie ici à Tel Aviv est étrangement revenue presque à la normale. Mais la peur n'a (...)

The aim of this contribution is not to summarise in one chapter two centuries of history on a subject as complex as Marxists and the peasant question . The purpose of this section is simply to set out a few milestones in order to take stock of the reversal of perspective that took place between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries - at least for a large part of the so-called “social transformation” left.
Fated to disappear?
The episode is famous (...)

I write to Israelis who believe they have no place in their hearts for Gaza, to understand how we got to this terrible war — and how we must get out of it.
Destroyed houses from the October 7 massacre in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel, April 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Just over six months have passed since October 7, and life here in Tel Aviv has strangely returned almost completely to normal. But the fear has not gone away.
Since January, I no longer find myself stopping (...)