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Arab revolution

The growing social soul of Egypt’s democratic revolution

Posted on 28th June 2011 by ISJ

This article is a preliminary and incomplete account of an unfinished revolution.1 It represents a first attempt to explore the implications of the great wave of strikes and social protests which preceded Mubarak’s fall from power and dominated the first… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt

Act One of the Egyptian Revolution

Posted on 4th April 2011 by ISJ

Of all the startling scenes which made up Act One of the Egyptian Revolution, the events in Tahrir Square on 2 February were surely most astounding. When Mubarak sent gangs of plainclothes police to attack demonstrators, the protesters fought like… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt

Tunisia: the people’s revolution

Posted on 4th April 2011 by ISJ

On 14 January 2011 Tunisians ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after a month’s revolt. Ben Ali’s removal has changed our perception of revolution. Two things explain this: the change came totally from below; and the reactionary forces have… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Tunisia

The return of the Arab revolution

Posted on 1st April 2011 by ISJ

In the winter of 1939-40 the German Marxist critic Walter Benjamin wrote a remarkable text known as “Theses on the Philosophy of History”. In it he attacked the widespread belief on the left that socialism would come about inevitably, as… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt, Tunisia

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New Resources

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Tony Phillips’s “What can we learn from Kautsky today?” translated into German
Judy Cox’s “How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Joseph Choonara’s “Socialism in a time of pandemics” translated into German – thanks to David Albrich
Now online: Yuri Prasad and Esme Choonara’s article “What’s wrong with privilege theory?” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: John Molyneux’s article “In Defence of Party Building” translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Sheila McGregor’s article on social reproduction theory has now been translated into German – thanks to Rosemarie Nünning
Now online: Brazil: how big a defeat? Interview with Valério Arcary
Now online: Rosemarie Nünning on the history of abortion law in Germany – Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code
New to our translations page: Lise Vogel und die Politik der Frauenbefreiung (Nicola Ginsburgh on Lise Vogel and the politics of women’s liberation in German)
Now online: Syrian revolutionary socialist Ghayath Naisse interviewed on the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region.
Online only “How to stop the tanks” by Ron Margulies on the attempted coup in Turkey
Egyptian Revolution timeline
International Socialism has covered events in Egypt from the strike waves that led up to the revolution, the events of 2011 themselves and the situation since: here is a timeline of key articles
Now online, Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) writing in International Socialism in 1987
Black history, police racism, Islamophobia and contemporary debates on oppression- Articles and book reviews for black history month
Videos of the International Socialism conference on Marxism and nature featuring Ted Benton and Ian Angus
Videos and transcript of the International Socialism debate on Syriza and Socialist Strategy with Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos
Online only: Vincent Sung analyses the roots of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests here
Online only: Bob Light remembers the 1974-5 Portuguese revolution
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Work, Class and Resistance’ with Jane Hardy, Kevin Doogan, Lucia Pradella and Jim Wolfreys
Videos from the International Socialism event on ‘Marxism and Revolution Today’ with Alex Callinicos, Claire Ceruti, Neil Davidson and others
Video: International Socialism seminar on “Egypt, Tunisia and revolution in the 21st century” with Gilbert Achcar and Anne Alexander
“The sex work debate: a response to Jess Edwards” by Thierry Schaffauser
Audio: Alex Callinicos on the International Socialist tradition in political economy
Audio: full recordings from the recent International Socialism conference Marxism and Political Economy
Audio: Harman, Brenner and Itoh discuss the world economy today at Historical Materialism’s annual conference

From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)
The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)
A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)
Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)
Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)
The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)
Gramsci versus Eurocommunism (Chris Harman 1977)
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