هبّة فلسطين المستقبل ومستقبل الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي

The Palestine Uprising: The Future and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Bidayat

The recent Palestinian uprising and Israel's 'peace of hegemony' compel Arab and Palestinian forces to reconnect the liberation struggle with national sovereignty and move beyond military reductionism in the face of new regional alliances.

مجتمع الاستهلاك

The Consumer Society

Bidayat

Class "frenzy" replaces class struggle — conspicuous consumption is the other face of wealth concentrated in the hands of the few.

ماذا يستطيع الحراك؟ جدل المتخيّل والضروري

What Can the Movement Do? The Dialectic of the Imagined and the Necessary

Bidayat

The Hirak faces a paradox between the dream of radical change and the necessity of resisting the crisis; if it keeps demanding the impossible without achieving the necessary, it will fail to secure the rights of the popular majority.

من يوميّات الحراك الشعبي

From the Diaries of the Popular Movement

Bidayat

The October 17 uprising erupted as popular anger against a corrupt ruling class, but it is threatened with co-optation or suppression unless it organizes itself and adopts clear demands to confront austerity plans and overcome sectarianism.

الثورة السلمية في عظمتها وحدودها

The Peaceful Revolution in Its Greatness and Its Limits

Bidayat

The Sudanese peaceful revolution succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship and imposing a partnership with the military, but it faces major challenges in holding perpetrators accountable and securing genuine civilian authority over the army and security forces.

السودان، الجزائر، إلخ. استئناف البدايات

Sudan, Algeria, Etc.: Resuming the Beginnings

Bidayat

The popular movements in Sudan and Algeria represent a resumption of the 2011 uprisings, posing the challenge of achieving genuine change that expresses the will of the people in the face of authoritarian regimes and the interference of old and external powers.

الحراك الشعبي في العراق ولبنان ملفات الفساد بيد الناس

The Popular Movement in Iraq and Lebanon: Corruption Files in the People's Hands

Bidayat

In the name of religion, the thieves robbed us — sectarianism isn't the cause of corruption but its cover, and the World Bank fights "corruption" with the privatization that produces it.

فلسطين تنتفض ضد أوسلو الاقتصادي

Palestine Rises Against Economic Oslo

As-Safir

The Palestinian uprising against austerity reveals that 'economic Oslo' is the foundation of political subservience, and that high prices and unemployment are a cry against this dependency.

الشعب يريد… في السودان ايضا

The People Want... In Sudan Too

As-Safir

The people want... in Sudan too — IMF-dictated austerity under military authoritarianism with an Islamic beard.

الحراك ضد الفساد في العراق ولبنان بإسم الدين، سرقونا

The Movement Against Corruption in Iraq and Lebanon: In the Name of Religion, They Stole from Us

Bidayat

In the name of religion they robbed us — corruption is pretext not cause, and sectarianism covers capitalist exploitation, not the other way around.

بين العراق ولبنان: ملفات الفساد بيد الناس

Between Iraq and Lebanon: Corruption Files in the People's Hands

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The movements in Iraq and Lebanon against corruption intersect in the collapse of services and the exposure of sectarianism's role, but crucially, they transform corruption files from official lies into a popular issue for accountability in the streets.

١٣ نيسان: دروس من اجل التغيير

April 13: Lessons for Change

As-Safir

Every sectarian pressure without reform explodes into civil war, armed change reproduces the system — and foreign backing is voluntary suicide everyone tried and lost.

On Etel Adnan

A tribute to Etel Adnan: "she transforms noise into velvet," and woman is what man lost since Adam—his paradise lost. "Change the world or go home!"