Nevertheless, China hoped to expand alliances beyond those with nations outside the US orbit like Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, and Sudan to include those with which it was economically integrated, like Japan among many others. . ..…

Estimates suggest that 80 percent of the refugees currently begging entrance to Europe are from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan — countries decimated by decades of Western and war, and the violence of dictatorial regimes like Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the reactionary forces of Islamic State Iraq and..…

Today, the US Treasury is applying political sanctions against Belarus, Burundi, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, to which we must add the Donetsk People’s Republic..…

In the context of rising class struggles, religious and sectarian divisions were sidelined, and the parties of Islam like Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood saw their influence wane.7 Additionally, in countries like Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, CPs played in leading student, peasant, and workers..…