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Trump’s Betrayal of Rojava

Meredith Tax ▪ October 15, 2019

Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria is a terrible blow for the international left.

The Kurds of northern Syria are building an enclave of radical democracy and feminism in the middle of a devastating war—and beating back ISIS in the process. Why aren’t more leftists paying attention?

Ten Points Towards a Two-State Solution

Meredith Tax ▪ September 16, 2014

A secure, well-run Palestinian state is more essential than ever, for the sake of justice and for the security of both sides.

Fundamentalists and Businessmen: The Battle for Secular Space

Meredith Tax ▪ June 12, 2013

On June 11, following threats by Turkey’s PM Erdogan that demonstrators who held out would “pay a price,” an overwhelming force of 20,000 riot police, complete with agents provocateurs throwing Molotov cocktails, cleared Gezi Park in scenes reminiscent of Occupy Wall Street. Like OWS, …

An Expedient Alliance? The Muslim Right and the Anglo-American Left

Meredith Tax ▪ February 26, 2013

Left-wing alliances with fundamentalist groups are betrayals of the majority of their co-religionists, who do not wish to be represented by extremists. Such alliances are also betrayals of basic socialist principle.

The Politics of Provocation

Meredith Tax ▪ September 25, 2012

An earlier version of this ran at openDemocracy last week, before tens of thousands marched in Benghazi to demand the dissolution of Islamist militias—a demand soon supported by the Libyan government. The plot line could have leapt from the baroque …

Gitagate, Two Years After

Meredith Tax ▪ June 27, 2012

Meredith Tax: Gitagate, Two Years After

Afghan Good Enough

Meredith Tax ▪ June 7, 2012

Meredith Tax: ?Afghan Good Enough?

The Human Side of “Human Rights”

Meredith Tax ▪ February 14, 2012

Meredith Tax: The Human Side of ?Human Rights?

Afghan Women Excluded

Meredith Tax ▪ November 23, 2011

Meredith Tax: Afghan Women Excluded [UPDATE: SIGN THE PETITION]

Eulogy for Jorge Semprún

Meredith Tax ▪ June 17, 2011

Meredith Tax: Eulogy for Jorge Semprún

Egypt, Madison, Abortion Rights

Meredith Tax ▪ March 8, 2011

Meredith Tax: Egypt, Madison, Abortion Rights

Run, Friends, The Old World Is Behind You!

Meredith Tax ▪ February 21, 2011

Meredith Tax: Run, Friends, The Old World Is Behind You!

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Meredith Tax ▪ Fall 1988

I first made contact with the women’s liberation movement twenty years ago, in the fall of 1968, when Linda Gordon showed me a copy of a magazine called No More Fun and Games, put out by an organization called Cell …