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The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for
democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book,
Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from
inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a
series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better
understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By
comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya
and Yemen, this book shows how these profoundly revolutionary
situations were overturned by counter-revolutions. Placing the fate
of the Arab uprisings in a global context, Allinson reveals how
counter-revolutions rely on popular support and cross borders to
forge international alliances. By connecting the Arab uprisings to
the decade of global protest that followed them, this innovative
work demonstrates how new forms of counter-revolution have rendered
it near impossible to implement political change without first
enacting fundamental social transformation.
To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies
through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why
aren't we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and
village every week? What is to be done to create a planet where a
communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary
twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a
climate tipping point? The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant,
stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism's death drive,
the left's complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the
rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage
Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must
precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about
the Anthropocene. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative
future - the Proletarocene - one capable of repairing the ravages
of capitalism and restoring the world.
The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for
democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book,
Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from
inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a
series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better
understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By
comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya
and Yemen, this book shows how these profoundly revolutionary
situations were overturned by counter-revolutions. Placing the fate
of the Arab uprisings in a global context, Allinson reveals how
counter-revolutions rely on popular support and cross borders to
forge international alliances. By connecting the Arab uprisings to
the decade of global protest that followed them, this innovative
work demonstrates how new forms of counter-revolution have rendered
it near impossible to implement political change without first
enacting fundamental social transformation.
Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do
alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie
Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global
capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in
which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire
in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the
international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the
existing views of the region. Using the example of Jordan, this
book traces the social bases of the struggles that produced the
country's foreign relations in the latter half of the twentieth
century to the reforms carried out under the Ottoman Empire and the
processes of land settlement and state formation experienced under
the British Mandate. By examining the attempts of Jordan to create
foreign alliances during a time of upheaval and instability in the
region, Allinson offers wider conclusions concerning the nature of
the interaction between state and society in the wider Middle East.
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