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Your writing about the Egyptian Revolution celebrates the courage, imagination and resilience of ordinary people. Why are they your focus?

Egypt is gearing up for the big day tomorrow (Wednesday 25 January), the anniversary of the start of the revolution.

This week marks the tenth month since the start of the Syrian revolution. It is a great event in the Arab Spring and a cornerstone of many issues across the Middle East.

The Bolshevik party—the party that led the 1917 Russian Revolution—was formed a century ago this month. It did not emerge from nowhere. The Bolsheviks split with the Mensheviks, ending a period in which the two groups had been factions inside the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).

Russia’s revolutionary movement at the turn of the century was shaped by the country’s large peasantry and small and historically young working class.

2011 was the year when what often seemed like Marxist abstractions—crisis, revolution and mass strikes—became living realities.

At the Socialist Workers Party conference national secretary Charlie Kimber introduced a session on building the party.

Egypt’s ruling military council has launched a fresh wave of attacks on revolutionary activists.

Looking back, I see that the movement that came to overthrow Zine El Abidine Ben Ali started in 2008. There was a very big intifada—an uprising in the mining basin in the south of the country.

State security prosecutors in Egypt are investigating the complaint brought by a leading Muslim Brotherhood lawyer against the Revolutionary Socialists (RS), according to the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice newspaper.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who were playing a leading role in the orchestrated campaign against the Revolutionary Socialists (RS) dramatically changed their position on Sunday.

Revolutionary socialist activists in Cairo warned yesterday that the latest round of the media attacks against them show there is an organised campaign to stop the revolution itself.