This important new book from Socialist Resistance tries to answer the essential questions abot the Middle East from a revolutionary Marxist point of view.

How was Palestine destroyed? Did the great powers create Israel? Why has Lebanon suffered war after war? What role has religion played in the Middle East? When did the region become the hub of the world’s ecological crisis? If you want answers to any of these questions, then you need our new book: Middle East: war, imperialism and ecology. You can buy it half price using this link.
Since the Second World War, the Middle East has suffered a seemingly unending period of war, foreign domination, ecological devastation and mass resistance to the region’s ruling classes. In this book, that resistance speaks in its own words. Roland Rance and Terry Conway have gathered together some of the most powerful articles written in the last sixty years by socialist, ecologist and anti-Zionist activists across the region.

The topics in this book include:

1. • The legacy of 1948, when Israel was created
2. • The destruction of Palestine
3. • Lebanon’s experience of war after war
4. • Iraq’s devastation
5. • The Zionist context
6. • The contradictions of religion
7. • What the ‘New World Order’ meant for globalisation, the environment and Zionism

Roland Rance has been a socialist activist in Israeli, Palestinian and British politics since the 1970s. He is a former editor of News From Within and Return Magazine, and is the convenor of Jews Against Zionism.

Terry Conway is one of the editors of Socialist Resistance and also of International Viewpoint.

DAYSCHOOL

Middle East – War, Imperialism, Ecology and Resistance

3.15 Workshops
Refugees, land and dispossession
War and eco-destruction
Solidarity and resistance
4.30 – 5.30 Solidarity and the socialist perspective Speakers: Gilbert Achcar, Ewa Jasiewicz and Roland Rance (Socialist Resistance)

About the speakers:
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon and teaches political science at the University of Paris-VIII. His best-selling book The Clash of Barbarisms just came out in a second expanded edition. A book of his dialogues with Noam Chomsky on the Middle East, Perilous Power, is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton and The 33-Day War on Lebanon with Michael Warschawski, will be published by Saqi Books.

Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, human rights activist and union organiser. She has worked and lived in occupied Palestine and Iraq supporting families, medical services and civil society organisations. She is a founder of Naftana, the UK support committee for the antioccupation, anti-dictatorship Iraqi oil workers union – the General Union of Oil Employees. She currently works at PLATFORM – a UK-based social and environmental justice organisation.

This forum will be a unique opportunity to examine:
The disastrous situation created by the invasion of Iraq which Bush’s “surge” will only make worse.
The results of the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon.
The ongoing struggle of the Palestinian people.
How the battles for water and oil have resulted in the carving up of the area.
The impact of climate change and ecological destruction.
Resistance to war and the occupation both in Iraq and across the globe.

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