The suffering and casualty toll to working class communities has only increased in the last few months with the latest military offensives in Aleppo, Syria and Mosul, Iraq. Both of the wars in Syria and Iraq have seen the involvement of multiple reactionary and imperialist forces. The last few months have seen many developments among these various forces such as Turkey, Iraq, Turkey and Iraq, Iraqi Kurds, Iranian Kurds, Syrian rebels, Egypt, Russia and the USA as each tries to position itself to gain advantage over some of their rivals. Under the pressures of these manoeuvrings, many of the original popular movements in places like Aleppo are being strangled, while international calls to stop the bombing only have a limited effect.
The suffering and casualty toll to working class communities has only increased in the last few months with the latest military offensives in Aleppo, Syria and Mosul, Iraq. Both of the wars in Syria and Iraq have seen the involvement of multiple reactionary and imperialist forces. The last few months have seen many developments among these various forces such as Turkey, Iraq, Turkey and Iraq, Iraqi Kurds, Iranian Kurds, Syrian rebels, Egypt, Russia and the USA as each tries to position itself to gain advantage over some of their rivals. Under the pressures of these manoeuvrings, many of the original popular movements in places like Aleppo are being strangled, while international calls to stop the bombing only have a limited effect.
