Incurable Hope

Extracts from the siege diary: an Israeli officer says "Palestinians are an epidemic"—asked about the resemblance to Hitler, he answers: "Yes." And "boutiques equal the number of martyrs."

نيرودا بول روبصن

Neruda - Paul Robeson

A translation of Neruda on Paul Robeson: his voice separated from silence as light from darkness—singing for all peoples, triumphant over the silence of rivers that lost their voice from carrying too much blood.

لمس – اكتافيو باث

Touch - Octavio Paz

A translation of Octavio Paz: hands invent another body within the body, and the woman is "beautiful like a revolution of the poor"—the body is the other face of being, time, and life.

اليسار في الزمن الثوري

The Left in Revolutionary Times

Bidayat

The Arab revolutions are a critique-by-practice of neoliberalism — the World Bank admitted the metric it imposed for 25 years doesn't solve unemployment. Democracy is the road to socialism.

غيفارا: كلام بلا صورة

Guevara: Words Without a Picture

Freeing Guevara from the T-shirt — socialist countries are complicit in exploitation if they trade at world market prices.

Variations on an Andalusian Theme – Undated Letters to Etel

From Granada to Cana: civil wars replicate—and water did not turn to wine, "blood simply turned into blood."

تشي غيفارا: طوبي الانسان الجديد

Che Guevara: Blessed Be the New Man

As-Safir

This generation suffers poverty of dreams like anemia — both destroy immunity. Che's image is that immunity: an architect of hopes from whose portrait light still radiates.

بلعيدي الحرب الاسبانية

Belaidi of the Spanish Civil War

An-Nahar

“Otherwise what would workers say about the Arabs?” That is how Muhammad Belaidi went to Spain and returned an internationalist martyr.

Un constructeur d’espoirs – Comment s’explique le retour du Che?

A Builder of Hopes - How to Explain the Return of Che?

Why does Che Guevara return to be revered anew? Because he represents an antithesis to neoliberal materialism and individualism, and a symbol of moral commitment, solidarity, and the building of hopes.

فواز طرابلسي لـ«الوقت»: نشهد سقوط الأوهام.. وإضعاف الدولة لا يقوّي الحريات

Fawwaz Traboulsi to Al-Waqt: We Are Witnessing the Fall of Illusions... Weakening the State Does Not Strengthen Freedoms

Al-Waqt

The global financial crisis shatters liberal illusions about the market and state intervention, affirming that weakening the state in our countries disintegrates society and does not strengthen freedoms, necessitating deep left-wing critique.

مقابلة البوصلة

Al-Bawsala Interview

Al-Bawsala

In a world where capitalism claims victory and absorption of left-wing demands, the interview reveals this to be a superficial re-framing that exacerbates capitalism's crises and challenges the Left to renew its vision.

لا يكفي ان يكون تشافيز مع الفقراء !

It Is Not Enough for Chavez to Be with the Poor!

As-Safir

Chávez's acceptance of his defeat in the constitutional referendum confirms that standing with the poor is not enough; socialist transformation requires free popular consent, not revolutionary justification.

تشي غيفارا: طوبى الانسان الجديد

Che Guevara: Blessed Be the New Man

As-Safir

They hid his body and confirmed his presence without it — this generation suffers dream-poverty like anemia, and Che's image is the immunity.