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    One year on from Jan 25 - the date in 2011 many Egyptians will mark as the beginning of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

    Blogger Gigi Ibrahim reflects on a year of revolution:

    I never had the illusion that a revolution was an easy road for change, but in Egypt, it was inevitable. The people broke their fears and risked their lives because they could no longer sustain a life under Mubarak’s repression. Egyptians, young and old, rich and poor, Muslims and Christians, men and women, all took to the streets risking their lives in confrontations with police bullets and tear gas for one demand, “the downfall of the regime.” A year later, with 19 more repressive dictators in power, we are still demanding the downfall of the regime represented in the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF). This was never a surprise to me because I understood as early as 11 February with SCAF in power that this is only the beginning of the revolution.

    On Twitter, Egyptians are sharing what #jan25 means to them, while on Comment is Free, Ahdaf Soueif writes about the road to parliament for the revolution.

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    Calling the revolution a success or failure is like deciding the result of a football match 45 minutes into the game. The revolution is at best halfway through. The seven-eight month hiatus was a result of the misguided perception that removing Mubarak from the presidency was the ultimate objective. The past months have proven that Mubarak is not the regime, rather just the ugly tip of a hideous iceberg. This is why we are back in Tahrir. Hatem Rushdy, one of six Egyptians who have documented the revolution online this year, joins us for a live discussion about Egypt’s political future
  3. QOTD: Richard Seymour on racism in Libya

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    A spectacular revolution, speaking the language of democracy and showing tremendous courage in the face of brutal repression, has been disgraced. Racism did not begin with the rebellion – Gaddafi’s regime exploited 2 million migrant workers while discriminating against them – but it has suffused the rebels’ hatred of the violently authoritarian regime they have just replaced.


    Richard Seymour - “Libya’s spectacular revolution has been disgraced by racism”

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