The Bureaucracy of Killing in Iran, and Orientalism

by Siyavash Shahabi

The news is horrifying for all of us. Not only because of the people who have been killed, but because of the shape of death itself. Seeing the bodies of hundreds of people in black bags. Seeing death being “processed” like an administrative file. Like a queue. Like an invoice.

In the middle of an internet blackout, Islamic regime state TV anchors speak with confidence about “terrorists killing people.” It’s an inversion of reality: turning the victim into the aggressor, flipping the roles of killer and killed, swapping the street with the prison.

In those same hours, the few people who could get through the Internet were saying this: they’ve set up a monitor at the cemetery so families can look at images of the bodies. When they see a number on the screen, they go forward to collect the body. As if human beings have been reduced to a “code.” A “turn.” A “case file.” And then they charge families money to receive their loved ones: the price of the bullet, the price of “services.”

The Price of Truth

Al Jazeera’s journalists risk everything to report on Israel’s war on Gaza, enduring adversity, displacement, and the deaths of their colleagues and families. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/al-jazeera-world/2025/11/5/the-price-of-truth

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: 
NEW YORK IS NOT FOR SALE

Live from Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Sunday, October 26, 2025.

The Disappearance of Dr Abu Safiya

Fault Lines investigates the assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital and Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's illegal arrest by Israeli forces

For more than two decades, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya served as a paediatrician in northern Gaza, rising to lead Kamal Adwan Hospital. Though he had many chances to leave, he chose to stay with his patients even as Israeli attacks escalated.

Le nouveau pays du mensonge déconcertant

Adresses – internationalisme et démocr@tie n°15

Les articles réunis dans ce numéro témoignent que ce qui se cache derrière cette « fédération » est en réalité une nouvelle prison des peuples. Même si les gardiens de cette prison déploient beaucoup d’énergie pour se faire passer pour les champions anti-impérialistes du tiers-monde, ils ne sont que les gardes-chiourmes d’un régime d’oppression et d’exploitation qui, à défaut d’être nouveau, à des caractéristiques propres.

Ce numéro d’Adresses présente une particularité : la plupart des articles ont été rédigés par des auteur·es qui combattent ou ont combattu au sein même du ventre de cette bête-là.

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory

As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south.

It will take months to turn Gaza City into a parking lot. I have no doubt Israel will replicate the efficiency of the Nazi SS Gen. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, who oversaw the obliteration of Warsaw. He spent his final years in a prison cell. May history, at least in terms of this footnote, repeat itself.

Gaza and Global Neofascism

by Gilbert Achcar

Most of the recent electoral rounds in Western countries (lately in Norway and Germany) have yielded worrying results that confirm the rise of racist far-right forces. This buttresses the characterization of the era we live in as one comparable to the fascistic era between the two world wars of the past century, but in a new guise claiming to respect the democratic form of government, among other new features. Hence the labelling of these forces as neofascist (see “The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features”, 4 February 2025).

One of the most worrying characteristics of the current neofascist era is that it includes, in addition to the countries of continental Europe, the two Western countries that confronted the fascist axis in the last century in alliance with the Soviet Union: the United States and Britain. As the neofascist transformation of the US regime, overseen by Donald Trump and his acolytes, becomes more evident day after day, London witnessed last Saturday the largest rally organized by the far right in British history. This came against the backdrop of public opinion polls indicating that the far right, led by Nigel Farage, is leading the Labour and Conservative parties.

Δείτε το για να καταλάβετε τη σχέση της γενοκτονίας των Χερρέρος από τη Γερμανία με την άρνηση της να πληρώσει στην Ελλάδα τις οφειλόμενες πολεμικές επανορθώσεις.

Namibia: The Price of Genocide

It was the first such atrocity of the 20th century, committed between 1904 and 1908 in the name of Imperial Germany in the territory known then as German South West Africa.

Germany accepts responsibility for genocide in Namibia, but has it done enough to right the wrongs of the past?

In May this year, the German government formally acknowledged responsibility for the colonial-era genocide against Namibia’s Herero and Nama peoples more than 100 years ago.

It was the first such atrocity of the 20th century, committed between 1904 and 1908 in the name of Imperial Germany in the territory known then as German South West Africa. As such, many historians now see it as foreshadowing the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.

But Herero and Nama activists, who have long campaigned for reparations, say the compensation on offer does not truly reflect the appalling suffering of the tens of thousands who died – through ethnic cleansing, disease, starvation, imprisonment and torture.

In Namibia: The Price of Genocide, filmmakers Naashon Zalk and Hamilton Wende have been finding out why.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/people-power/2021/12/16/namibia-the-price-of-genocide

Photo / picture: Protest against the genocide in Gaza at the monument to the Holodomor in Kiyv.

Solidarity message from Ukrainian Соціальний рух / Social Movement/ to the participants of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that leaves for Gaza today from a lot of countries worldwide.

"We write from Ukraine with respect for your courage and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We ourselves have experienced invasion, occupation, forced displacement and separation of our loved ones and know all too well what this means.

We also remember the history leading up to this day: the denial of the Nakba, the ongoing violence and land grab by colonists, the continued denial of the right to return and the suffocating blockade that turned Gaza into an open-air prison. We see how in Gaza citizens, women and children are disproportionately targeted, trapped on a narrow strip of land where famine has been created and where homes, schools and hospitals are in ruins. The paralysis of the so-called international community, unable or unwilling to intervene and end this madness, is painfully familiar to us.

We praise the dedication of the Freedom Flotilla and believe that solidarity, even if symbolic, can break the spell of inevitability. We join the demands for a permanent ceasefire and an end to apartheid structures, for a future based on equality and shared life.

May the road you take today become a safe passage for help, and tomorrow a corridor for freedom! ”

The Silencing of Anas al-Sharif

A haunting look at the targeted killing of journalist Anas al-Sharif and the war on truth in Gaza.

This is the story of Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in northern Gaza, who risked everything to document the war unfolding around him.

Born and raised under blockade, Anas grew up surrounded by conflict but chose not to turn away. Instead, he became a journalist, determined to show the world the human cost of war. As bombs rained down and entire neighbourhoods were erased, Anas remained on the front line, reporting with unwavering courage. He captured starvation, the destruction, and the relentless targeting of civilians and journalists alike.

But in a place where truth is dangerous, Anas became a target himself. This is the story of a man who gave his voice to Gaza until he was silenced.

All That Remains

The journey of a 13-year-old amputee from Gaza named Leyan as she seeks treatment in the US.

Leyan Abu al-Atta, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost her leg in an Israeli attack, is one of thousands of children who have lost limbs in this war in what experts say is likely one of the most intense mass-disabling events of children in our lifetimes.

Fault Lines follows Leyan’s journey as she makes her way to the United States for medical treatment in the hopes of overcoming a spinal cord injury and walking again on prosthetic legs. Along the way, we witness Leyan’s perseverance, her family’s unwavering love in the wake of her life-changing injury and an intimate portrait of what lies ahead for the child amputees of Gaza.

Neofascism and Climate Change

by ACHCAR Gilbert

What is driving neofascist movements to question, to varying degrees, the reality of climate change, or at least its connection to human behaviour?

As a record-breaking heat wave engulfs much of Europe and North America, and as climate change and global warming—against which environmental scientists have long warned, calling for urgent action before it’s too late—are increasingly confirmed, at this alarming juncture for the future of the planet and its human and animal inhabitants, it is worth asking what is driving neofascist movements to question, to varying degrees, the reality of climate change, or at least its connection to human behaviour. We have previously noted that “Neofascism is pushing the world towards the abyss with the blatant hostility of most of its factions to indispensable environmental measures, thus exacerbating the environmental peril, especially when neofascism has taken over the reins of power over the most polluting people in the world proportionally to its number, namely the people of the United States.” (“The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features”, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 4 February 2025).

From Below: Iranian Civil Society Against War and Tyranny

by Siyavash Shahabi

In the shadow of sirens and smoke, where Tehran’s skyline is once again marked by fire and fear, a different kind of voice is emerging from within Iran—one that rejects both the bombs falling from foreign skies and the violence of the regime that claims to defend the homeland. While Israel’s attack on Iranian cities have intensified regional chaos and the Islamic Republic responds to the attack, an unprecedented wave of domestic dissent is rising from below. It is not the state, nor its generals or clerics, but workers, teachers, feminists, and writers—many of them imprisoned—who are speaking the clearest truths about war, justice, and survival.

In the past two days, six distinct but politically aligned statements have been issued by various sectors of Iranian civil society. These statements come from labor unions, educational syndicates, imprisoned women’s rights activists, and the Iranian Writers’ Association. They do not echo the calls for vengeance or nationalist pride. Instead, they condemn all sides of the conflict—from Israeli occupation and imperial violence to the Islamic Republic’s repressive and militarized rule. Together, these voices form a unified rejection of militarism and authoritarianism, and they call for peace, democracy, and dignity—not as slogans, but as survival strategies in a collapsing region.

Joint Statement by Independent Organizations in Iran

Opposing War and Warmongering Policies

June 16, 2025

The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Solidarity and Struggle Network, is transmitting this text, signed with other independent organisations in Iran:

In light of the current unstable and dangerous conditions in Iran and the region, the undersigned organizations consider it their duty to adopt a collective position.

The working people of Iran — workers, teachers, nurses, retirees, and other wage-earners — have never had, and never will have, any interest in war, militarization, the bombing of the country, or in oppressive and exploitative policies.

Ce passé qui nous hante et façonne notre présent !

Adresses – internationalisme et démocr@tie n°12

Par Yorgos Mitralias

Il est manifeste que, par les temps qui courent, le passé revient en force pour hanter et même pour façonner de plus en plus notre présent ! C’est comme si les démons d’un passé prétendument exorcisés à jamais revenaient et, pire, occupaient de nouveau le devant de la scène politique. Prenez par exemple la seconde présidence de Trump et son trumpisme triomphant qui présente plus que des similitudes avec la peste brune de l’entre-deux-guerres. Évidemment, Naomi Klein et Astra Taylor ont tout à fait raison quand elles affirment que « nous devons reconnaître la réalité : nous ne sommes pas confrontés à des adversaires que nous avons déjà vus [1] ». Oui, sans doute, car cette seconde présidence de Trump semble inédite et n’a aucun précèdent non seulement parce qu’elle est dirigée et soutenue par des milliardaires mais aussi parce que tous ces ultra-riches qui la composent « ne se contentent pas de profiter des catastrophes, dans le style du capitalisme du désastre, mais les provoquent et les planifient simultanément ».