Revolution
The Syrian revolution poses a severe test for Turkey's rulers
09 October 2012The first real sign that the civil war in Syria could spill over into a wider conflict came last week. A series of mortar and artillery exchanges took place across the border between Syria and Turkey.
Chavez re-elected in Venezuela despite mounting problems for his Bolivarian revolution
08 October 2012Hugo Chavez has been re-elected as president of Venezuela with just under 55 percent of the total vote—the lowest since he first took the presidency in 1998.
West wants to control our revolution, says Syrian activist
04 October 2012"The spotlight is now on Turkey, which is firing artillery rounds into Syria. But I don’t think Turkey is going to escalate. It’s not in their interests, and none of the Arab countries have shown support for this.
Peggy Purdy (1930-2012)
18 September 2012We lost a revolutionary socialist and a class fighter when Peggy died last week.
Naomi Wolf reduces women to vaginas
11 September 2012Feminist author Naomi Wolf wants to share her revolutionary discovery with us all—women’s vaginas are connected to their brains.
Reviews round-up
28 August 2012The Revolution Will Be Televised BBC Three on Wednesdays, 10pm
Syria: Assad's massacre of a revolutionary town
21 August 2012Azaz in northern Syria is a town under the control of the opposition. Everything from the baking of bread to the welfare of thousands of refugees from Aleppo is run by revolutionary committees.
Syria's revolution enters dangerous new phase
07 August 2012Kofi Annan resigned as United Nations (UN) special envoy for Syria last Friday, signalling the failure of one part of the West’s intervention in the revolution.
Sudan activists protest in central London against massacre in Nyala
06 August 2012Sudanese activists demonstrated outside Downing Street on Saturday in solidarity with the Sudanese revolution.
Tunisian workers protest in new battle to stop privatisation
31 July 2012Workers in Tunisia have been protesting, and in some places striking, against the privatisation of factories that were nationalised during the revolution.
How did human beings evolve?
24 July 2012Darwin’s theory of evolution is double-edged for Marxists. On the one hand it is a revolutionary theory, and it makes up a part of the arsenal we use to analyse the world.
The revolution in Syria is rooted in popular uprising
24 July 2012The past few days may have seen the balance of forces tilt decisively against Bashar al-Assad and his regime. Paradoxically, a significant section of the Western left seems to have tilted as decisively in their favour.
Solidarity with Mahalla workers!
18 July 2012Once again the Mahalla workers have declared a strike. Let us not forget that their great strikes in December 2006 and September 2007 and their struggles in February and April 2008 were the sparks which ignited the Egyptian revolution.
Strike by workers who opened door to Egypt's revolution
17 July 2012Some 23,000 workers at the giant Misr Spinning plant in Mahalla al-Kubra, Egypt, walked out on strike last Sunday.
Music of the Arab revolutions spreads alongside the struggle
17 July 2012Music, poetry and politics have always mixed in the Middle East—and never more so than during the Arab Spring.
Syrian revolution comes to a critical crossroads
17 July 2012The Syrian revolution has reached a new crossroads. Recent regime massacres have combined with a series of defections that could open the door to greater influence by the West.
Marxism 2012: Videos of Hossam el-Hamalawy and Simon Assaf
13 July 2012This year's Marxism festival saw a series of meetings on revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Here are videos of Hossam el-Hamalawy on the situation in Egypt and Simon Assaf on Syria, imperialism and revolution.
The revolution in Egypt is entering a new phase
12 July 2012The political scene since the inauguration of Mohamed Mursi as Egypt’s president has been extremely fluid.
Syrians fight for the future
10 July 2012Our revolution is first of all the rejection of decades of one party rule, where we could only have one ideology, one way of thinking and where we were isolated from any real political debate.
Stand with the Syrian revolt
10 July 2012The Syrian regime has brutally cracked down—but as Adi Atassi’s article shows, the spirit and resolve of the revolution remains unbroken.
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