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People gather to celebrate days after the fall of Bashar Assad's government at Umayyad Square in Damascus, December 12, 2024
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory."
A UNITED NATIONS envoy today called for a quick end to Western sanctions against Syria as the country’s new leaders, and regional and global powers, begin to chart a path forward following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.
This came as the Israelis continued to mount heavy air attacks on Syria and has occupied part of Syrian territory.
The Syrian government has been under strict sanctions by the United States, the European Union and others for years after anti-government protests in 2011 later spiralled into a civil war.
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As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
