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Arab revolution

Behind the Lebanese apocalypse

Posted on 29th September 2020 by Richard Donnelly

On 4 August a massive explosion shook Beirut port when a neglected storehouse of ammonium nitrate blew up, catapulting Lebanon onto the front pages of the global media. The volatile chemical was being stored next to the country’s main grain… Continue Reading →

Article Arab revolution, finance, Lebanon, Middle East, The Economic Crisis

From uneven and combined development to revolution: the roots of Algeria’s crisis

Posted on 28th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

On 2 April 2019, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign.1 In scarcely more than one month, a massive popular movement that had emerged for the first time on 22 February managed to get rid of the ageing and… Continue Reading →

Article Algeria, Arab revolution, development, Leon Trotsky, Middle East, neoliberalism

Class, power and revolution in Sudan

Posted on 28th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

From Algiers to Beirut and Baghdad to Khartoum, it appears that revolution is once again “the choice of the people”—as a slogan echoed by tens of thousands on protests in Sudan puts it.1 Meanwhile, the temperature of social and political… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, Arab revolution, development, strategy, the working class

The “NGOisation” of the Syrian Revolution

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

In March 2011 the Arab Spring arrived in Syria. Syrians had lived under the totalitarianism of the Asad family, first with the father, Hafez al-Asad (1971-2000), followed by the son, Bashaar al-Asad, for 40 years.1 This included a state of… Continue Reading →

Article Arab revolution, Middle East, NGOs, Syria

An end to isolation? Palestine and the Arab revolutions

Posted on 5th January 2015 by ISJ

On 9 November 2014 Palestinian activists in villages near Jerusalem made a symbolic breach in Israel’s apartheid wall, their way of marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.1 The Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees said: “No matter… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Palestine

Egypt: after the coup

Posted on 2nd April 2014 by ISJ

The military coup of July 2013 was a serious setback for the revolutionary movement in Egypt.1 For army leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi it was an act of rescuing the revolution: for Egypt’s radical activists it was a counter-revolutionary offensive aimed to… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt

Egypt: The workers advance

Posted on 4th July 2013 by ISJ

A striking feature of Egypt’s Revolution is the extraordinary number of people engaged in struggles in the streets and workplaces, and in formal and informal organisations. The absolute numbers, together with the proportion of the population involved and the continuity… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt

“Never going back”: Egypt’s continuing revolution

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

For 35 years Egypt was a laboratory for neoliberalism—a local state in which hegemonic world powers and financial institutions played out their strategies for the global economy. It was also a stage on which the United States and its allies… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt

The Syrian crucible

Posted on 28th June 2012 by ISJ

The Arab revolutions have been a great inspiration for the struggle against capitalism and imperialism across the world. They have inspired and fed into a global mood of alienation and anger against the system as expressed in strikes, occupations and… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Syria

The Egyptian workers’ movement and the 25 January Revolution

Posted on 9th January 2012 by ISJ

“It is midnight in Cairo”, intoned the BBC reporter on the Ten O’ Clock News bulletin, “and still tens of thousands are in Tahrir Square. One chant echoes again and again: ‘Go, go, go’. But this time it is not… Continue Reading →

Analysis Arab revolution, Egypt, Working class

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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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