13 years ago, without any organisation, programme, plan or preparation, the Arab masses rose up against their despotic rulers.
In a matter of weeks they brought down regimes that had been in power for decades. The old regimes – employing hundreds of thousands of spies, police officers, and army personnel – could only watch as the masses took over the streets.
In the context of rising tensions across the Arab world, Lubna Badi, leading comrade of the Revolutionary Communist Party, discusses the lessons from this exciting period of class struggle.