اليسار في الزمن الثوري

The Left in Revolutionary Times

Bidayat

The Arab revolutions are a critique-by-practice of neoliberalism — the World Bank admitted the metric it imposed for 25 years doesn't solve unemployment. Democracy is the road to socialism.

No Freedom Without Equality

Heinrich Boll Stiftung

There is no genuine freedom without social equality; separating political liberty from economic justice empties it of its content and renders it an illusion.

غيفارا: كلام بلا صورة

Guevara: Words Without a Picture

Freeing Guevara from the T-shirt — socialist countries are complicit in exploitation if they trade at world market prices.

بريشت – اسئلة العامل

Brecht - Questions from a Worker

Translation of Brecht: Who built Thebes? Books list kings. Caesar defeated the Gauls — didn't he have a cook? Every decade a great man. Who paid the bill?

خمس أطروحات في الماركسية المعاصرة

Five Theses on Contemporary Marxism

Capitalism, with its deep structural contradictions, does not kill Marxism but renews its necessity, pushing for a re-imagination of revolution and social alternatives.

تصفية حسات مع التجربة السوفييتية: تقييم ودروس

Settling Accounts with the Soviet Experience: An Assessment and Lessons

Bidayat

Settling scores with the Soviet experience: a project that claimed equality by sacrificing freedom, demonstrating that democracy is a fundamental condition for socialism, not an addition to it.

التجربة السوفييتية: ما لها وما عليها

The Soviet Experience: Its Merits and Its Faults

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this text offers a balance sheet of the Soviet experience, drawing essential lessons for those who still believe in the possibility of transcending capitalism towards a new world.

تقديم كتاب: إن كان بدك تعشق، كتابات في الثقافة الشعبية

Book Introduction: If You Want to Fall in Love - Writings on Popular Culture

Gilgamesh is popular culture, Picasso drew from African masks — no rupture between "high" and "low," but the key distinction: culture produced by the people vs. culture produced for their consumption.

هاينر موللر – ومسرح العدوان على الواقع

Heiner Muller - And the Theatre of Aggression Against Reality

Heiner Muller's theatre does not explain reality; it attacks it: a little state makes comedy, too much of it makes tragedy.

وأثر التحولات الراهنة في الفكر العربي المعاصر

The Impact of Current Transformations on Contemporary Arab Thought

What blocks understanding is not a lack of cultural explanations but their excess: “culturalism” erases social reality and reduces politics to identity and religion.

Our Lady of the Rocks

A literary text on Dhofar: a Freudian slip of the camera turned a shepherdess into a madonna — the tubercular woman asks for medicine from strangers who carry everything except what helps, and the unknown name endures across wars and exiles.

The Left in Time of Revolution

Bidayat

A founding essay in Bidayat: the Arab uprisings are a movement against neoliberalism—"the people want" is popular sovereignty above all others, and "work, freedom, bread" places unemployment at the heart of democracy.

الثورات تٌسقِط أنظمة الافكار ايضا !

Revolutions Bring Down Systems of Ideas Too!

Al-Akhbar

A quarter-century of "good governance" conferences didn't topple a president — the crowds did it in weeks. Each Saudi prince gets $275,000/month, but The Economist worries about bread subsidies.

تشي غيفارا: طوبي الانسان الجديد

Che Guevara: Blessed Be the New Man

As-Safir

This generation suffers poverty of dreams like anemia — both destroy immunity. Che's image is that immunity: an architect of hopes from whose portrait light still radiates.

Un constructeur d’espoirs – Comment s’explique le retour du Che?

A Builder of Hopes - How to Explain the Return of Che?

Why does Che Guevara return to be revered anew? Because he represents an antithesis to neoliberal materialism and individualism, and a symbol of moral commitment, solidarity, and the building of hopes.

مقابلة البحرين

Bahrain Interview

Amid the 2008 crash, the crisis shatters neoliberal illusions and revalidates Marxism, but weakening the state does not strengthen freedoms, nor is political Islam a true alternative.

فواز طرابلسي لـ«الوقت»: نشهد سقوط الأوهام.. وإضعاف الدولة لا يقوّي الحريات

Fawwaz Traboulsi to Al-Waqt: We Are Witnessing the Fall of Illusions... Weakening the State Does Not Strengthen Freedoms

Al-Waqt

The global financial crisis shatters liberal illusions about the market and state intervention, affirming that weakening the state in our countries disintegrates society and does not strengthen freedoms, necessitating deep left-wing critique.

مقابلة البوصلة

Al-Bawsala Interview

Al-Bawsala

In a world where capitalism claims victory and absorption of left-wing demands, the interview reveals this to be a superficial re-framing that exacerbates capitalism's crises and challenges the Left to renew its vision.

ليس بالثقافة وحدها يحيا الانسان

Man Does Not Live by Culture Alone

When culture turns into a ready-made identity, politics and economics disappear, and a society lacking production is told to settle for a “knowledge society.”

تشي غيفارا: طوبى الانسان الجديد

Che Guevara: Blessed Be the New Man

As-Safir

They hid his body and confirmed his presence without it — this generation suffers dream-poverty like anemia, and Che's image is the immunity.

فواز طرابلسي: يسار يطلب اعتراف النظام أو ينفتح على أجنحته المتضررة

Fawwaz Traboulsi: A Left That Seeks the Regime's Recognition or Reaches Out to Its Disaffected Factions

As-Safir

What the Left needs is to refound itself, not to beg the regime for recognition; anything less is a passage from the margins into dependency.

في صداقة عبد الرحمن منيف والباهي محمد

On the Friendship of Abdel Rahman Munif and al-Bahi Muhammad

Mut'ab al-Hazzal, ghost hovering over oil fields — has a real-life double: the paramount sheikh of Anizah, arrested by the US army in Iraq. Life invents its own novelistic narrative.

الطبقات الاجتماعية في لبنان

Social Classes in Lebanon

In Lebanon, the existence of social classes is denied through myths of exceptionalism and the externalization of poverty, while real structures of domination are obscured by politics, sectarianism, and neoliberal methodologies that invert the concept of justice.

مقابلة ثناء

Thana'a Interview

As-Safir

Interview: intellectual journey from Ba'ath to the new left — from war to exile and return. The Lebanese left's experience and the question of democracy and socialism.