Despite a massive wave of mobilisations in Tahrir Square and other city centres in November and important actions continuing into December, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is still maintaining its illegitimate rule in Egypt. Though the focus of the popular upsurge was to force the SCAF to withdraw from power and handover to a genuinely independent civilian government the generals just reshuffled its stooge government and is hoping to carry on as before. Read more...

In December the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), fresh from unleashing murderous violence against the demonstrators who occupied the street outside the Cabinet Office, near Tahrir Square, moved against a number of liberal and left wing individuals and organizations. They urgently need international solidarity now to halt the witch hunt Read more...

2011, sin duda, será recordado como el año de la Revolución Árabe. Hemos visto una explosión de aspiración democrática y valiente lucha mientras las revoluciones se extendían en pocas semanas desde Túnez y Egipto a Bahréin, Yemen, Libia y Siria. Como cualquier movimiento que desafía y derroca líderes y sistemas que una vez habían aparecido como características inamovibles del orden mundial, el mundo entero fue tomado por sorpresa por la velocidad, la escala y la energía de las masas movilizadas que intuyeron una oportunidad para desalojar a sus gobernantes. Read more...

The growing chorus of international voices which are demanding action against Iran points to a drive to war and an urgent need to begin to prepare resistance, writes Martin Suchanek Read more...

The revolution in Syria refuses to be crushed, and with reports of more soldiers defecting, Dave Stockton examines where things could go next Read more...

President Assad struggles to stay in power as the resistance movement grows Read more...

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2011 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year of the Arab Revolution. We have seen an explosion of democratic aspiration and courageous struggle as revolutions spread in a few weeks from Tunisia and Egypt to Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Like all such movements, which challenge and topple leaders and systems that had once appeared to be fixed features of the global order, the world was taken by surprise by the speed, scale and energy of the mobilised masses who sensed an opportunity to dislodge their rulers. Read more...

Whilst most of the worlds population support the Palestinian bid at the UN for statehood, the US and Israel have threatened to stop recognition at all costs. Andy Yorke explains what is at stake Read more...