Banking on the Syria deal

If it holds up, the deal between the US and Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons may well emerge as a turning point in the people’s movement against war.

COMMENTATORS tell us that there is a palpable sense of relief in Damascus and in other parts of Syria in the wake of the Russia-US deal over Syria’s chemical weapons. Citizens of Damascus – the world’s oldest, continuously inhabited city – know they will not be bombed for the time being.