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Palestine and the Middle East

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

  • A poster of a demonic Donald Trump among a sea of Iranian flags

    Iran: a third way between oppression and aggression

    Can Iranians really only choose between repressive state or colonialist invasion? Alain Alameddine speaks to Iranian independent feminist collective Tanide

  • A Palestinian fire truck next to an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) armoured vehicle

    Fighting fire with fellowship

    As Palestinian firefighters face multiple threats under occupation, Rachel Spence reports on acts of solidarity and support between international workers’ unions

  • A composite image of a business man running up a graph of missiles holding a breifcase of money

    Corporate profiteering and the war on Iran

    Amid the war on Iran, UK economic policy allows the super-rich to profit while the public struggle with living costs, writes Jake Woodier

  • A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli military vehicles, during a large scale military training in the northern Jordan Valley, West Bank

    Zionist pogroms and shepherding outposts

    In their latest dispatch from the West Bank, Farah, Calico and Noah report on evolving Israeli tactics for stealing Palestinian land

  • A creative mosaic of fragmented images, with colours of Palestine and a woman wearing a keffiyeh visible

    Unions for Gaza

    Palestine is a live issue in the trade union movement, writes Bernard Regan, with eighteen unions are affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Here’s how they’re taking action – and you can support them

  • A montage of b&w photographs of generals and a statue being pulled down

    Iran ’53: The coup that changed the Middle East

    When Mohammed Mossaddegh tried to nationalise oil, Britain and the US helped overthrow the Iranian leader. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi traces how covert intervention has shaped Iran

  • A person in jeans and a white shirt stands arms outstretched looking over a valley

    In pictures: West Bank lives

    With global attention on Gaza, an already grave situation in the Palestinian West Bank has intensified. A Solidus Collective photographer documents two years of change