The curve of the Arab struggle
Aspirations for freedom, prosperity and dignity, and the impossibility of achieving development without democracy and liberty, drive change
Arab revolutions
Egypt’s revolution searching for its path
The problem with the avant-gardists is that they take their legitimacy from themselves. In a democratic state legitimacy is borne from elections
Legal action
Full Narration of Facts: Legal case for Iraq on US genocide
Full (unannotated) Narration of Facts from the legal case filed in Spain 9 November 2009
WikiLeaks Iraq war logs: Legal action is unavoidable
To all victims of the US-UK invasion of Iraq and their families; To all Iraqis; To all Parties of the Genocide Convention
Iraq: 19 years of intended destruction
We turned to — and encourage others to move towards — legal and judicial action. Why?
Press
Is what the US has been doing in Iraq genocide?
The answer given to this question by Dr.Ian Douglas, a member of the BRussells Tribunal Committee, is an open and clear Yes
Fighting empire: An interview with Ramsey Clark
George W Bush is not a patriot, Ramsey Clark tells Ian Douglas
Inside the machine: An interview with Mordechai Vanunu
Damaged but not defeated, Vanunu continues to challenge Israel
Academic
“Belief in the world”: The everyday politics of globalism
Against the brutal march of security we must formulate a way of being-in-the-world not based on fear but trust: a belief-in-the-world
Poststructuralism
Poststructuralism in international political economy emerges on the forefront of three issues — culture, power and history.
Globalization as governance: An archaeology of contemporary political reason
Power, discipline, subjectivity
Iraq
Iraq: Stop the massacre of Anbar’s civilians!
Maliki’s use of the army against the civilian population of Anbar constitutes the defeat of the policies Iraq has been following since 2003
Iraq: State terrorism in Hawija
It neither a civil conflict nor a sectarian one. It is a crime of a government against a national group who would vote against its politics
Support Iraqi protests!
While millions across the world watched the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, no one is watching the people’s uprising in Iraq
Geopolitics
9/11: Ten years of lies, but the walls are coming down
One day, and it may be soon, the truth about 11 September 2001 will start to appear. Cracks have already opened. We are coming into a time of truth
Using Libya to abort the Arab Spring
The general Libyan youth uprising expresses the hollowness of Gaddafi’s regime,.to which he responds by force
The Arab Spring of democracy
In Arab countries, the model of globalisation consisted of abandoning the Arab-Muslim character of the state and notion of the national state
Turning Points
The curve of the Arab struggle
Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas
22 March 2012, Ahram Online
It is the aspirations of young people for freedom, prosperity and individual and national dignity on the one hand, and the impossibility of achieving development without democracy, dignity and liberty on the other, that are the motors of change. The youth of the Arab nation wants to live as free and as prosperous as the youth of other nations. No maitre à penser — whether a state, a party or a person — can dictate positions anymore.
Globalization as Governance: Towards an Arachaeology of Contemporary Political Reason
Ian Douglas
27 September 1998
By the beginnings of the 19thC the place of the state and political reason in constituting spaces for existence had been secured, and a second ‘reordering’ could now be effected. ‘Dromological power’ had emerged as the practical basis and first principle of capitalist modernity established simultaneously with the apparatus of modern governance.
Egypt’s revolution searching for its path
Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas
29 January 2012, Ahram Online
A heavy responsibility lies on the shoulders of political groups, the elected of the people, and the government of Egypt. Social justice programmes cannot be achieved but through legitimate, democratic, stable institutions of the state. The base of any democracy is a free individual, woman and man, and a free citizen, woman and man. International human rights standards and treaties should be ratified and applied.
US Genocide in Iraq
Ian Douglas, Hana Al Bayaty, Abdul Ilah Albayaty
01 June 2007
What has happened in Iraq is more than simple divide and rule. The biggest lie is that the US occupation of Iraq is a blunder. Analysis of the strategic logic for destroying Iraq, as well an understanding of the nature of colonial war and how the US occupation has unfolded, reveals that it is not the occupation that veered from its aims, but rather the Iraqi people who in courage resisted. The longer the situation persists, the more proven is the fortitude of the Iraqi people.
Who is in Resistance?
Hana Abdu Ilah Al Bayaty and Ian Douglas
10 March 2009
Faced by the immense inequality of forces, and the impossibility to wage a frontal conventional war, Iraq’s 400,000 strong and well-experienced national army consciously dispersed, rejoining the population in whose defence it was schooled, waging a guerrilla war and guerre d’usure to defend Iraq’s sovereignty and the interests of the Iraqi people.
Le Feyt Declaration: Peace in Iraq is an Option
Ian Douglas, Hana Al Bayaty, Abdul Ilah Albayaty
27 August 2008
If the international community and the United States are interested in peace, stability and democracy in Iraq they should accept that only the Iraqi resistance — armed, civil and political — can achieve these by securing the interests of the Iraqi people. The Iraqi anti-occupation movement — in all its expressions — in defending the Iraqi people is the only force empowered to ensure democracy in Iraq.
Tasks and Difficulties ahead of the Arab Revolutions
Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas
01 May 2011, Ahram Online
The Egyptian revolution heralded a new kind of revolution that is adapted to a large country of 85 million in the Third World in the 21st century. Its social forces by consciousness or necessity forced all revolutionaries of the world to re-examine their ideas of revolution because of what is accomplished ... The future tasks should be accomplished through the same maturity and spirit in order to not endanger the revolution or Egypt.
Archive articles
Many and no words: Samir Halawa (1956-2014)
You refused to abandon the youth when they were being gassed and murdered, while others had nothing but words of condemnation for them — thugs, hooligans, whatever they said of them
Arab intellectuals in doubt
We do not understand why those who are against dictatorship and foreign intervention are not patriots to Arab intellectuals
