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On March 15th, the anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, we bring you an interview with Joseph Daher of the Alliance of Middle East and North African Socialists. We also bring a report on Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Protect Ihumātao struggle, including Ani’s experiences at the site.
In the prologue Derek reads Die Lösung (The Solution), a poem by German communist Bertolt Brecht.
Timecodes (visible on Spotify and iTunes, not above embedded player):
- Interview with Joseph Daher: 02.00
- Protect Ihumātao report: 01.19.00
Syria recs:
- Alliance of MENA Socialists: Website, Facebook page
- Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience, book by Joseph Daher
- The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy, book by Yassin al-Haj Saleh (reviewed by Ani here)
- Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, book by Leila al Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab (reviewed by Ani here)
- The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death, book by Yasser Munif
- Secularists, Secularism and the Syrian Uprising (Part 1/2), Syria Untold article by Joseph Daher
- Secularists, Secularism and the Syrian Uprising (Part 2/2), Syria Untold article by Joseph Daher
- Public-Private Partnerships as a tool for privatization and reinforcement of clientelist networks, Syria Untold article by Joseph Daher
- Popular Oral Culture and Sectarianism, a Materialist Analysis, Syria Untold article by Joseph Daher
- The ‘Caesar Bill’: A step towards accountability in Syria, or a worsening economic crisis?, Syria Untold article by Joseph Daher
- Syria: 9 years of struggle for democracy, Socialist Resistance article by Joseph Daher
- “All the world will be affected, not just Syria”: Interview with a Syrian Australian artist, Fightback article by Ani
- Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory, al-Jumhuriya article by Michael Karadjis
Local Area Network recs:
Audio/video samples:
- Syrian Revolutionary Dabke, Grup Yürüyüş
- The People Want to Overthrow the Regime – الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام, sharatlin
- Oud Nation/Oud Sphere, HYPAL
- Piano music: Lucas King, Mattia Cupelli, Beethoven
- Waltz into the Moonlight, Tryad
- BXL, Chuki Beats
- Crackling Fireplace Sound Effect, Virtual Fireplace
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