The Arab Spring: The Revolution at the Doors of Europe

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The Arab Spring of 2011—the revolutionary process that started in Tunisia and Egypt and expanded across North Africa and the Middle East—is the product of the interaction of the current world capitalist crisis with the historically accumulated contradictions in the region. The dialectic of the universal and the particular, of world crisis and social revolution is the key to a materialist understanding of the events under way.The Western imperialist powers try to block and defeat the revolution in this strategic region by means of war (Libya), repression by local despots (Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria) or by manipulating the ‘democratic transitions'.The revolution in the Middle East to be victorious has to develop as a permanent revolution. Its fate is tied to the emerging social revolutionary struggles in the crisis ridden Europe.View full textDownload full textKeywordsArab Spring, World Capitalist Crisis, Middle EastRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2011.583094