US-based Hong Kong socialist activist and scholar Promise Li discusses how economic interdependence across rivaling geopolitical blocs shapes inter-imperialist tensions today, with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes.
Promise Li discusses the complex realities of 21st century imperialism where economic interdependence across geopolitical blocs in tension shapes inter-imperialist rivalry and the kind of anti-war and anti-imperialist solidarity we need today.
In As-Suwayda, hundreds of Druze, including women, protest against the economic crisis, corruption, drug trafficking, and subsidy cuts. The rallies are the most significant since the 2011 Arab Spring, but a lack of leadership undermines their prospects. Meanwhile, Syrian President Assad scraps military field courts, notorious for abuses and violations.
Syria is positioned to return to the geopolitical fold in the Arab world, but the political structure inside the country is still fractured, facing protests from its citizens and the need to call in the Russian air force and Iranian backers.
The return of Assad's Syria to a recent Arab League summit is to be viewed within wider geostrategic interests, but efforts to normalize the situation must consider economic matters and the plight of the refugees.