On December 22, Simon Assaf and Canan Sahin (see below) spoke on Syria today after Assad and its international implications, followed by discussion. This video documents the speakers’ opening and closing remarks.
Meeting hosted by Marx21 in the US, and the International Socialists in Canada.
SIMON ASSAF is a Lebanese revolutionary socialist now based in London. He is a commissioning editor at The Public Source (Lebanon), and has reported extensively on the wider Middle East. He was one of the founders of Tajamou‘ Yasari and al-Muntada al-Ishtiraqi.
CANAN (JANAN) SAHIN (she/her) is a member of the International Socialists in Canada. She is currently a PhD student in the department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, working on racism against Syrian refugees in Turkey. Prior to her move to Canada, she was based in Turkey as an active member of DSİP (Revolutionary Socialist Workers’ Party).
Since this meeting, author Anne Alexander and German-Palestinian activist Ramsis Kilani have further detailed the context of the Middle East in the wake of Assad’s fall, the opportunities for mass resistance in Syria and, crucially, what it means for Palestinian liberation, in a January 14th article “What does the fall of the Assad regime mean for the Palestinian struggle?“
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