Latest dispatch from a messed up world

Syria, anti-imperialism and solidarity

• Leila al-Shami in Freedom on the left's failure of solidarity with Idlib and in the NYT on the deathblow for democracy in Syria.
• One Day in Hell - a survivor’s testimony from Assad’s infamous Douma market massacre of 2015, by Sameer Al-Doumy.
• Oz Katerji in the New Statesman on Emily Thornberry's disastrous embrace of Kremlin disinformation over Syria.
• Mark Boothroyd on why Labour must not remain silent over Idlib.
• Bill Weinberg on the warming relations between Rojava and the Assad regime.
• Brian Whitaker on questions about the Douma chemical attack, in light of the UN investigation, and on false flag and failed Russian "predictions" of faked chemical attacks.
• Simon Tisdall on Russian disinformation softening us up before Idlib.

The USA

• Charles Davis: Despite the Violence, Trump Keeps on Deporting Nicaraguans and Woodward’s Book Should Kill the Myth of a Pro-War Coup Against an Antiwar President.
• Jason Wilson: Address the consequences of Bannon's actions, not just his words.

Labour's national socialist turn

• Tendance Coatesy continues to track the growing power of "sovereigntism" on the left,  including in the British Labour Party. A recent depressing manifestation is John McDonnell's call to appease UKIP by offering a "traditional British" anti-immigration compromise. In Clarion, Simon Hannah calls for a turn instead to a different immigration politics.

Spiked/Orban

• Coates on Frank Furedi, RCP guru, and his support for Orban against the "cosmopolitans".

Antisemitism

• John Cunningham on the development of antisemitism in Hungary. 

Anti-fascist prisoners in Russia

• Arman Sagynbayev: I Was Tortured by the FSB.

Anti-Stalinist history

• An unorthodox Trotskyist critique of Cuban "socialism" from 1986.

Finally, some good news

• Anne-Marie Waters banned from Twitter.

[Image at top is from Leila's article in Freedom, of an anti-Assad protest in Idlib last week.]