• Monthly Review
  • Monthly Review Press
  • MR (Castilian)
  • Climate & Capitalism
  • Money on the Left
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Mastadon
MR Online
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact/Submission
  • Browse
    • Recent Articles Archive
    • by Subject
      • Ecology
      • Education
      • Imperialism
      • Inequality
      • Labor
      • Literature
      • Marxism
      • Movements
      • Philosophy
      • Political Economy
    • by Region
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Australasia
      • Europe
      • Global
      • Middle East
    • by Category
      • Art
      • Commentary
      • Interview
      • Letter
      • News
      • Newswire
  • Monthly Review Essays

Against War on Syria

Imperialism, WarSyria, VenezuelaCommentary


Nicolás Maduro is the President of Venezuela.  Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).




| Print


Killing Civilians to Protect Civilians in Syria
Germany: Threats of Violence, Hopes for Votes
  • Also by Eds.

    • Israel's unfolding crime of genocide of the Palestinian people & U.S. complicity in genocide (Emergency Legal Briefing Paper) by Eds. October 23, 2023
    • 50 detained, over 100 homes raided in sweeping crackdown on press freedom in India by Eds. October 03, 2023
    • Samir Amin: Negating Eurocentrism, Creating Universal Culture by Eds. July 21, 2023
    • The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.: an interview with Justin Akers Chacón by Eds. May 27, 2023
  • Monthly Review Essays

    • CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism
      Chen Zhang | Franc CFA pénurie chronique de petite monnaie dans plusieurs pays | MR Online

      The independence of French Indochina after the Second World War triggered a wave of independence in the French-speaking African countries, and it appeared that French colonial foundations had suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s.

    Lost & Found

    • Whither China?
      Harry Magdoff | Isabel Crook and Harry Magdoff | MR Online

      An Exchange from 2002–⁠03

    Trending

    • A mirage in Egypt
      COP28: The mirage that capitalism can solve its destruction
    • Israa Jaabis, center, a Palestinian prisoner released by Israel, is hugged by relatives as she arrived home in East Jerusalem, Nov. 26, 2023.
      Tread softly on Hamas — for good reason
    • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
      Gender, labor, democracy, and Americanism: U.S. history in the (un)making
    • NETANYAHU AND BIDEN MEET, JULY 14, 2022. PHOTO BY ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE.
      Biden became ‘Genocide Joe’ thanks to the Israel lobby
    • Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the city of Petah Tikva on 17 August 2023 (Reuters)
      Israel-Palestine war: Occupied West Bank home to ‘two million Nazis’ says Smotrich
    • Emilio Pettoruti (Argentina), Arlequín (‘Harlequin’), 1928.
      The dangerously appealing style of the Far Right: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2023)
    • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Logo.(Wikimedia Commons)
      IPCC rebellion
    • Mark Weisbrot
      Milei is ‘really as extreme as you get in Right-Wing Libertarian ideas’
    • Abdulai79 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
      Informal workers in the Global South and the Global Labor Movement
    • Elon Musk
      The dark side of SpaceX’s flight of innovation

    Popular (last 30 days)

    • Anne Frank (Photo: weightymatters.ca)
      The Warsaw Ghetto and Gaza: Understanding history
    • [Source: survivethenews.com]
      Washington Post lifts the veil on CIA’s shadow war against Russia waged since 2014
    • Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts. Studying these environmental impacts outside the lab and in the ocean is challenging. Image by Florida Sea Grant via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED).
      How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data
    • A mirage in Egypt
      COP28: The mirage that capitalism can solve its destruction
    • Antonio Gramsci
      A rose for Gramsci
    • The Last Argument of Kings
      Russo-Ukrainian War: The Reckoning
    • ISRAELI SETTLERS WAVE ISRAELI FLAGS NEAR DAMASCUS GATE DURING THE ‘FLAG MARCH’ IN JERUSALEM ON MAY 29, 2022. (PHOTO: JERIES BSSIER/APA IMAGES)
      The Pogrom, Indians, and Genealogies of the Israeli Settler-Vigilante
    • former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
      Leaked: British spies constructed Zionist propaganda network
    • Attendees of the National March on Washington: Free Palestine on Nov. 4 pause for prayer. PHOTO BY DREW ANGERER VIA GETTY IMAGES
      The largest pro-Palestinian protest in U.S. history was “a turning point.” Now it’s spreading
    • Graphic for Orinoco Tribune's special interview with Palestinian activist and author Khaled Barakat, available on YouTube. Photo: Orinoco Tribune.
      Special interview with Khaled Barakat: Gaza demands end of genocide, not ‘ceasefire’

    RSS MR Press News

    • EXCERPT: Colonial dreams, racist nightmares, liberated futures (from the introduction to A Land With A People) December 4, 2023
    • “A lasting tribute to meticulous journalism”The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition reviewed in ‘Asian Affairs’ December 4, 2023
    • The making of capitalism (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘Against the Current’) December 4, 2023
    • A critique that struggles alongside, not against, the working class (Work Work Work reviewed in ‘Journal of Labor and Society’) November 21, 2023
    • This war is causing mass trauma. How we respond matters. (Contributor to A Land With A People featured in ‘The Nation’) November 21, 2023

    RSS Climate & Capitalism

    • Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as world heats December 4, 2023
    • Worldwide, 1 in 12 hospitals won’t survive extreme weather December 4, 2023
    • Record heat driving a trail of devastation and death December 1, 2023
    • Another oil-soaked climate summit disaster looms November 28, 2023
    • If capitalism is ‘natural,’ why was so much force used to build it? November 23, 2023

     

    RSS Monthly Review

    • December 2023 (Volume 75, Number 7) December 1, 2023 The Editors
    • Marxian Ecology and Sustainable Human Development December 1, 2023 John Bellamy Foster
    • Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism December 1, 2023 Gabriel Rockhill
    • The Collapse of the New Polish Left December 1, 2023 Damian Winczewski
    • Corporate Media, Political Elites, and Perpetual War December 1, 2023 David Michael Smith

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

    Creative Commons License

    Monthly Review Foundation
    134 W 29TH ST STE 706
    New York NY 10001-5304

    Tel: 212-691-2555