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16 February 2011

Some Egyptian lessons for Iranian revolutionaries

Hamid Alizadeh Middle East & North Africa

Contrary to what the bourgeois media claim, revolutions
are not made by individual agitators or small groups. They are made by the mass
of people and they are prepared for years by the decay of the old system which is
no longer able to take society forward. On the other hand, when a society is ripe
for revolution, that is, when all the contradictions have accumulated to a critical
degree, a small force can play a large role in the events that are about to
unfold.

15 February 2011

Tunisia: one month on from the overthrow of Ben Ali

Jorge Martin Arab Revolutions, Middle East & North Africa

Today (February 14th) marks one month since the
revolutionary overthrow of the hated dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia on
January 14. The last month has been a constant struggle between the
ruling class which wants to return to bourgeois normality and workers
and youth who carried out the revolution and who are struggling to stop
the old regime from trying to make a comeback.

15 February 2011

IRELAND: Fine Gael and Labour conflict

Tony Healy (www.ireland.marxist.com) Europe, Ireland

IRELAND: While the political arithmetic of the next Dáil won’t be clear until after February the 25^th,
the battle lines in the state have been drawn for some time. The Irish
bourgeois are well aware that Fianna Fáil are a dead duck. Now Enda
Kenny has decided to concentrate his fire on the Labour Party. There is
one reason alone for this. The bourgeois want full control of the levers
of power and to all intents and purposes they want a continuation of
Cowen and Lenihan’s austerity programme, regardless of whoever leads the
government.

11 February 2011

Mubarak has fallen! – Revolution until Victory!

Alan Woods International

The tyrant has fallen! As I write
these lines, Hosni Mubarak has resigned. This is a great victory, not
just for the people of Egypt, but for the workers of the entire world.
After 18 days of continuous revolutionary mobilizations, with 300 dead
and thousands injured, Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year tyranny is no more.

11 February 2011

Iran: In the footsteps of Tunisia and Egypt

Hamid Alizadeh Middle East & North Africa

History is indeed being written with
the fall of Mubarak and as the whole of the Middle East and North Africa
erupts in one revolutionary upheaval after another. This is also now
having an impact in Iran as the lines are once again being drawn for a
new round of battles since the eruptions that started one and a half
years ago. The focus is now on the call for a demonstration on Monday,
February 14.

10 February 2011

Midnight in Cairo

Steve Jones International

MIDNIGHT: Thousands of people are still out in the streets of Cairo and
other cities in Eygpt. People are moving – but no one knows where to.
Confusion is everywhere.

10 February 2011

Mubarak to go? UPDATED

The Communist International

According to news sources, Mubarak may be on the point of being forced
out of office. The army have issued a statement about how they intend to
"support the legitimate demands of the people" which many are
interpreting as code for "Mubarak – time to go!" Sources predict that this may be
confimed later tonight (UK Time).UPDATE: he says he is not going yet – we have arrived at a critical point!

9 February 2011

Egyptian workers take the lead

Alan Woods Arab Revolutions, Middle East & North Africa

There are situations in which mass
demonstrations are sufficient to bring about the fall of a regime. But
Egypt is not one of them. All the efforts of the masses to bring about
the overthrow of Mubarak through demonstrations and street protests have
so far failed to achieve their principal objective.

8 February 2011

IRELAND: Labour’s ambiguity

Fran P. Bowman (Fightback - Ireland) Europe, Ireland

As the Irish General Election approaches, the Labour Party
leadership continues getting rid of the most radical aspects of its
election programme. And, Labour Party members only get to know about
these changes through the media. The Irish Times revealed the
last of such policy modifications on Monday, 31 Jan.

7 February 2011

Egyptian revolution reverberates throughout Arab world

Fred Weston Arab Revolutions, Middle East & North Africa

The Egyptian revolution, following on
rapidly from the Tunisian uprising, has sent shockwaves across the whole
of the Arab world. All the serious strategists of capital are
discussing the “domino effect” of the events unfolding in Egypt. None of
them, however, had anticipated any of this.

4 February 2011

IRELAND:: Vote Labour and fight for socialist policies

Tony Healy (www.ireland.marxist.com) Europe, Ireland

The posters are going up on the lamp posts
and the tourists and the European lorry drivers are starting to drive
round in circles looking for road signs obliterated by the airbrushed
smiles of party hopefuls. But this is no ordinary election. The election
on February 25th will represent a snapshot of the political fallout
from the economic collapse and the farcical slide into chaos of the
Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition. Farcical that is, except
for the calamity that the government’s policies have created for the
working class people of Ireland.

4 February 2011

Egypt: A Pharaoh’s Nemesis

Lal Khan Arab Revolutions, Middle East & North Africa

One of the salient features of a
revolution is that the masses conquer the fear of the state and
repression. This has been graphically demonstrated on the streets of
Egypt. At the same time the surge of a mass upheaval breaks the taboos
in the psychology of the soldiers and the army begins to cleave on a
class basis. A rare fraternity between the security forces and the
masses, whom they are supposed to crush, develops as the revolution
blossoms.

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