![]() ![]() All the uprisings were based on mass participation and democratic aspirations. The first wave of Arab revolutions took place throughout the Middle East, against both secular and religious dictatorships, some aligned with the US (like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak) and others with Russia (like Syria's Ba’athist regime of Bashar al-Assad). ![]() The second is the seemingly unending series of international rebellions that began in 2019 and carries on to this day. The first was the epoch-defining wave of Arab revolutions that unfolded from 2011. Two recent international uprisings have made the picture more complicated, at least for some. Conservatives accused the left of sympathising with “Islamo-fascism”, but if you knew that you were on the side of the oppressed against the oppressor, it was clear where you had to take your stand. Back then, it was common sense for the left that the Palestinians and Iraqis had the absolute right to resist their Israeli and US oppressors, and that any defeat inflicted on Western imperialism was a victory for humanity. It was, perhaps, a little simpler for Western leftists to offer solidarity to the uprisings of the oppressed in the 1990s and 2000s, when the US empire seemed to have achieved permanent global hegemony. Would Karl Marx have supported the striking workers of Belarus? Would Lenin have cheered on Hong Kong’s uprising against the Communist Party of China? If Palestinians have the right to resist the violent obliteration of their national identity, what about the Uighurs of Xinjiang? ![]()
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