What is the NEW SOCIALIST GROUP (NSG)?

We are an organization of socialist activists. We publish NEW SOCIALIST, a magazine offering radical analysis of politics, social movements and culture. Our website and magazine are forums for people who want to strengthen today's activism and for those who wish to replace global capitalism with a genuinely democratic socialism. We believe that the liberation of the working class and oppressed peoples can be won only through their own struggles. We invite you to find out more and to work with or join us.

NSG Events

LEBANON: The struggle for social and economic justice

A radio interview with Ghassan Makarem, a media activist based in Lebanon with the Beirut Indymedia Media Center.

Lebanon—the Struggle for Social & Economic Justice
on CKUT Radio

Listen to an interview with Ghassan Makarem, a media activist based in Lebanon with the Beirut Indymedia Media Center. The interview provides analysis on the current situation in Lebanon, rooted in the recent history of popular social movements, specifically focusing on the May 2004 country-wide labour
strike and popular demonstrations against the privatization of social services, government-corruption and post civil-war neo-liberal economic policies.

Also this interview addresses the Lebanese political “opposition,”
which has capitalized on the assassination of former Prime-Minister Rafik Hariri and the popular sentiment against the presence of 15,000 Syrian troops in Lebanon.

Currently social justice activists in Beirut are organizing under the
banner of “No to War & Racism - Yes for Secular Democracy”, against the increasingly racist political language of the “opposition” campaign, aimed at the disproportionately impoverished Shi’a Muslim population, the estimated 1 million Syrian workers in Lebanon and the over 500 000 Palestinian refugees living in the country.

-> To listen / download the interview with Ghassan Makarem click here

-> For more info on the current situation visit Indymedia Beirut

Upcoming Actions & Events

LEBANON: The struggle for social and economic justice

A radio interview with Ghassan Makarem, a media activist based in Lebanon with the Beirut Indymedia Media Center.

Lebanon—the Struggle for Social & Economic Justice
on CKUT Radio

Listen to an interview with Ghassan Makarem, a media activist based in Lebanon with the Beirut Indymedia Media Center. The interview provides analysis on the current situation in Lebanon, rooted in the recent history of popular social movements, specifically focusing on the May 2004 country-wide labour
strike and popular demonstrations against the privatization of social services, government-corruption and post civil-war neo-liberal economic policies.

Also this interview addresses the Lebanese political “opposition,”
which has capitalized on the assassination of former Prime-Minister Rafik Hariri and the popular sentiment against the presence of 15,000 Syrian troops in Lebanon.

Currently social justice activists in Beirut are organizing under the
banner of “No to War & Racism - Yes for Secular Democracy”, against the increasingly racist political language of the “opposition” campaign, aimed at the disproportionately impoverished Shi’a Muslim population, the estimated 1 million Syrian workers in Lebanon and the over 500 000 Palestinian refugees living in the country.

-> To listen / download the interview with Ghassan Makarem click here

-> For more info on the current situation visit Indymedia Beirut

News & Analysis

LEBANON: The struggle for social and economic justice

A radio interview with Ghassan Makarem, a media activist based in Lebanon with the Beirut Indymedia Media Center.

Lebanon—the Struggle for Social & Economic Justice
on CKUT Radio

Listen to an interview with Ghassan Makarem, a media activist based in Lebanon with the Beirut Indymedia Media Center. The interview provides analysis on the current situation in Lebanon, rooted in the recent history of popular social movements, specifically focusing on the May 2004 country-wide labour
strike and popular demonstrations against the privatization of social services, government-corruption and post civil-war neo-liberal economic policies.

Also this interview addresses the Lebanese political “opposition,”
which has capitalized on the assassination of former Prime-Minister Rafik Hariri and the popular sentiment against the presence of 15,000 Syrian troops in Lebanon.

Currently social justice activists in Beirut are organizing under the
banner of “No to War & Racism - Yes for Secular Democracy”, against the increasingly racist political language of the “opposition” campaign, aimed at the disproportionately impoverished Shi’a Muslim population, the estimated 1 million Syrian workers in Lebanon and the over 500 000 Palestinian refugees living in the country.

-> To listen / download the interview with Ghassan Makarem click here

-> For more info on the current situation visit Indymedia Beirut