The Green Party and Syria

While ignorance is no defense in a court of law, Stein is neither better nor worse than the vast majority of the left when it comes to Syria.

by Louis Proyect

Over the past five years, I have written 204 articles about Syria in the hopes that I might convince the left to support the Syrian rebels. The Syrian revolution is our generation’s version of the Spanish Civil War. Unlike the 1930s, however, much of the left today is backing the Syrian equivalent of General Francisco Franco’s fascist mi…