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class="site-main"> <div class="clearfix container"> <section id="primary" class="content-area"> <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title"> Arab revolution </h1> </header> <article id="post-3463" class="clearfix post-3463 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-arab-revolution tag-imperialism tag-palestine tag-saudi-arabia"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/revisiting-imperialism-middle-east/" rel="bookmark">Revisiting the dynamics of imperialism in the Middle East</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/revisiting-imperialism-middle-east/" title="9:02 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-04-09T21:02:42+01:00">9th April 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/revisiting-imperialism-middle-east/" title="Revisiting the dynamics of imperialism in the Middle East" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/drone-iran-e1712693277814-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>More than six months into the greatest crisis to grip the Middle East for a generation, it is sometimes hard to find words that adequately describe its scale and intensity.1 As I write, Israeli troops are poised to invade Rafah… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/revisiting-imperialism-middle-east/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span 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href="https://isj.org.uk/palestine-permanent-revolution/" title="9:02 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2023-12-31T21:02:59+00:00">31st December 2023</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/palestine-permanent-revolution/" title="Palestine: between permanent war and permanent revolution" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/flags-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>As the bodies of Palestinians piled up in the Gaza Strip, United States president Joe Biden told reporters that the end of the conflict would only come with a “two-state solution” and the creation of a “real” Palestinian state alongside… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/palestine-permanent-revolution/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-spring/" rel="tag">Arab spring</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/palestine/" rel="tag">Palestine</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-3243" class="clearfix post-3243 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-book-reviews tag-arab-revolution tag-middle-east tag-tunisia"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/reassessing-revolution-mena/" rel="bookmark">Reassessing revolution in the Middle East and North Africa</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/reassessing-revolution-mena/" title="11:58 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2023-01-14T23:58:21+00:00">14th January 2023</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/reassessing-revolution-mena/" title="Reassessing revolution in the Middle East and North Africa" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/revolution-choice-250x175.jpeg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>A review of Revolution is the Choice of the People: Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East and North Africa, Anne Alexander (Bookmarks, 2022), £12 Since 2019, the world has been witnessing a “third cycle of revolt”, following the anti-globalisation… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/reassessing-revolution-mena/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/book-reviews/" rel="category tag">Book reviews</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/tunisia/" rel="tag">Tunisia</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-3051" class="clearfix post-3051 post type-post 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height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sudan-train-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Sudan has experienced a sharp development of its revolutionary movement in response to the deepening crisis of the state and society since a military coup on 25 October 2021. The coup saw the Sudanese civilian opposition parties summarily ejected from… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/interview-revolutionaries-in-sudan/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/uncategorised/" rel="category tag">Uncategorised</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/revolution/" rel="tag">Revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/sudan/" rel="tag">Sudan</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2609" class="clearfix post-2609 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-arab-revolution tag-finance tag-lebanon tag-middle-east tag-the-economic-crisis"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/lebanese-apocalypse/" rel="bookmark">Behind the Lebanese apocalypse</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/lebanese-apocalypse/" title="11:48 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-09-29T23:48:56+01:00">29th September 2020</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/lebanese-apocalypse/" title="Behind the Lebanese apocalypse" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/arab-rev-250x175.jpeg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>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… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/lebanese-apocalypse/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/finance/" rel="tag">finance</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/lebanon/" rel="tag">Lebanon</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/the-economic-crisis/" rel="tag">The Economic Crisis</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2426" class="clearfix post-2426 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-algeria tag-arab-revolution tag-development tag-leon-trotsky tag-middle-east tag-neoliberalism"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/roots-of-algerias-crisis/" rel="bookmark">From uneven and combined development to revolution: the roots of Algeria’s crisis</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/roots-of-algerias-crisis/" title="6:55 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-03-28T18:55:10+00:00">28th March 2020</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/roots-of-algerias-crisis/" title="From uneven and combined development to revolution: the roots of Algeria’s crisis" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/featured-photo-jpeg-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>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… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/roots-of-algerias-crisis/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/algeria/" rel="tag">Algeria</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/development/" rel="tag">development</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/leon-trotsky/" rel="tag">Leon Trotsky</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/neoliberalism/" rel="tag">neoliberalism</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2423" class="clearfix post-2423 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-africa tag-arab-revolution tag-development tag-strategy tag-the-working-class"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/class-power-and-revolution-in-sudan/" rel="bookmark">Class, power and revolution in Sudan</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/class-power-and-revolution-in-sudan/" title="5:42 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-03-28T17:42:38+00:00">28th March 2020</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/class-power-and-revolution-in-sudan/" title="Class, power and revolution in Sudan" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/featured-photo-jpeg-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>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… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/class-power-and-revolution-in-sudan/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span 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“NGOisation” of the Syrian Revolution</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/the-ngoisation-of-the-syrian-revolution/" title="4:32 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2019-10-17T16:32:50+01:00">17th October 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>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… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/the-ngoisation-of-the-syrian-revolution/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/ngos/" rel="tag">NGOs</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1029" class="clearfix post-1029 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-analysis tag-arab-revolution tag-palestine"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/an-end-to-isolation-palestine-and-the-arab-revolutions/" rel="bookmark">An end to isolation? Palestine and the Arab revolutions</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/an-end-to-isolation-palestine-and-the-arab-revolutions/" title="3:00 am" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2015-01-05T03:00:00+00:00">5th January 2015</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/isj846yrcat/" title="View all posts by ISJ">ISJ</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>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… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/an-end-to-isolation-palestine-and-the-arab-revolutions/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/analysis/" rel="category tag">Analysis</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/palestine/" rel="tag">Palestine</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-965" class="clearfix post-965 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-analysis tag-arab-revolution tag-egypt"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/egypt-after-the-coup/" rel="bookmark">Egypt: after the coup</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/egypt-after-the-coup/" title="4:00 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-04-02T16:00:00+01:00">2nd April 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/isj846yrcat/" title="View all posts by ISJ">ISJ</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>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… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/egypt-after-the-coup/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/analysis/" rel="category tag">Analysis</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/" rel="tag">Arab revolution</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/egypt/" rel="tag">Egypt</a> </span> </footer> </article> <nav role="navigation" id="nav-below" class="paging-navigation"> <h1 class="screen-reader-text">Post navigation</h1> <div class="nav-previous"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/arab-revolution/page/2/" ><span class="meta-nav"><i class="ico-left-open"></i></span> Older Articles</a></div> </nav> </div> </section> <div id="widget-area-2" class="site-sidebar widget-area" role="complementary"> <aside id="execphp-2" class="widget widget_execphp"> <div class="execphpwidget"><a href='/issue-142'><img src='/wp-content/uploads/cover142.jpg'> </a> </div> </aside><aside id="custom_html-2" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><div class="sidebar-content"> <h5><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Socialism/319434101430866"><img src="/wp-content/old-site-images/facebook.png"/> Like us on Facebook</a></h5> <h5><a href= "https://twitter.com/ISjournal"><img src="/wp-content/old-site-images/twitter.png"/> Follow us on Twitter</a></h5> </div> <br> <br> <br>  <link href="//cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/classic-10_7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. 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