Salameh Kaileh is a prominent Palestinian-Syrian intellectual and activist. He was born in the town of Birzeit, Palestine, in 1955, and studied in Baghdad and Damascus, he soon became an activist within the Palestinian resistance and later within the Arab left. Last detained by the Syrian authorities in 2012.

He has published more than 30 books, among them: “Critique of Mainstream Marxism” (1980), “The Arab and The National Question” (1989), “Imperialism and the Plunder of the World” (1992), “The Problems of Marxism in the Arab World” (2003) and most recently “A true revolution: marxist perspective on the Syrian uprising” (2014).