Arab Spring Articles

There’s more than a whiff of the League of Nations about the UN this week after China and Russia’s veto of a resolution which would have demanded President Assad’s abdication. The resolution was backed by the other 13 members of the security council, and drawn up by...

Holocaust Memorial Day is a moment to reflect on a unique evil. Man's inhumanity to man is known throughout history. But never before have the entire resources of a people and a state been placed at the service of  the extermination a people whose condition was...

Debate rich in content and breadth was certainly a hallmark of the PES Re:new Convention last weekend. Inevitably, how progressives should respond and rebuild in the fallout from the crisis was a recurrent theme that permeated all discussions. Nonetheless, the policy...

A year ago, probably the only genuinely independent trade unions in the Arab world were the ones created in the wake of the invasion of Iraq.  It took the US, Britain and their allies, using massive amounts of armed force to bring down a regime that did not tolerate...