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Lessons for the anarchist movement of the Israeli-Lebanese War - Anarkismo
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Instead, I propose a different anarchist approach: Revolutionary anarchists should, at the same time, (1) be in solidarity with the people of the oppressed nation against the oppressor (in this case Lebanon against the U.S.-Israel), while (2) politically opposing all bourgeois-statist (nationalist, Islamist, etc.) programs and leaderships (here Hezballah, other nationalists, etc.) in favor of revolutionary, internationalist socialist-anarchism. By “solidarity” I mean being “on the side of” the people of the oppressed nation, supporting them against attacks from their oppressors. (Which does not prevent us from sympathy for Israeli--and U.S.--soldiers, but this is a sympathy due to their humanity and their working class background, not a solidarity with their being soldiers.)
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This issue is an aspect of a broader question: the relationship between class issues and specific nonclass issues when seeking liberation. The problem of oppression may be divided between class exploitation and other, nonclass, forms of oppression. Class exploitation refers to the way the capitalists pump surplus value out of the workers (and also to the exploitation of peasants by landlords and capitalists). Nonclass oppressions include the oppression of women (gender), of People of Color (race), of Gays and Lesbians (homophobia), of minority religions, of youth, etc., as well as national oppression. Working class oppression is specific to capitalism and its resolution requires socialist revolution. The other oppressions (even that of the peasants--who are still a large proportion of humanity) are often remnants from pre-capitalism. They are forms of oppression which capitalism, in its revolutionary youth, “promised” to abolish. This was the bourgeois-democratic program as raised in the great capitalist revolutions of England, the U.S., France, and Latin America.
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Eyewitness Lebanon: In the land of the Blind - Anarkismo
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Syria/Lebanon’s anarchist history is slender, but a ground-breaking study by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi (12) shows that from about 1904, a group of Syrian/Lebanese radicals grouped around the figure of Daud Muja’is began disseminating socialist thought, and established night schools and reading rooms in Beirut and in Mount Lebanon (then a semi-autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire). This network interacted with other revolutionary networks in the region, notably the multi-ethnic network in Alexandria and Cairo that established the Free Popular University in Egypt in 1901, and the International League of Cigarette Workers and Millers of Cairo in 1908 (Egypt had been represented by Errico Malatesta in the Black International as far back as 1881 and by 1895, the first Arabic anarchist translations appeared).
الحرب الأهليّة: في بعض حسناتِها وأفضالها | جريدة الأخبار
أسعد أبو خليل عن محاسن الحرب الأهلية و وجوب الحسم العسكري
جنبلاط يفجّر علاقته بـ«14 آذار» ويعود إلى «الثوابت» | جريدة الأخبار
The man is amazing. A complete opposite of his father. Kamal was the focus of one center in Lebanon. Walid gains his power by being in between and changing sides
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: This is a first: proud of Al-Akhbar
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Salim Al-Lawzi (the highly corrupt--in every way possible--founder and editor of the highly successful magazine, Al-Hawadith, in the 1960s and early 1970s) for example would himself write the letters to the editors and would often attack in them some reporters and journalists in his staff that he would be mad at for one reason or another.
Internet & Democracy project release study of the Arabic blogosphere | Berkman Center
“Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere” utilizes a unique methodology that blends link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of individual blogs to investigate the online discussions taking place across the Middle East and North Africa. Internet & Democracy project director Bruce Etling and his team, with Morningside Analytics founder and Berkman affiliate John Kelly, and co-authors Robert Faris and John Palfrey, identified a base network of approximately 35,000 active blogs (about half as many as found in their previous study of the Persian blogosphere), created a network map of the 6,000 most connected blogs, and with a group of Arabic speakers hand coded 4,000 blogs. Congratulations and thanks to all who collaborated on this significant work!
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Citizen Vote
"خرى عليكم و على هالإنتخابات" "جمهورية موز"
الشيوعيّة العربيّة: بعض أسباب السقوط | جريدة الأخبار
أسعد أبو خليل عن الشيوعية في الشرق العربي
FILKKA ISRAEL: الصراع بين وسام الحسن وغسان بلعة قد ينتقل إلى العمليات السرية أيضا
هل تعتقل مخابرات الجيش اللبناني الإرهابي هلال شومان العامل مع غسان بلعة ومع الأردنيين على التنسيق مع القاعدة ومع عبد الغني جوهر الذي يزعم أنه كاتب في السفير اللبنانية رغم أنه مهندس كهربائي خبير في تركيب الصواعق للمتفجرات ؟؟
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