View source for 22/08 The arab revolutions and permanent revolution: Jean Nanga


== Outline ==

'''The revolutions in Northern Africa (Tunisia, Egypt) and the permanent revolution'''

* '''Introduction'''

* '''The theory of permanent revolution'''
** Marxist orthodoxy on Revolution in the beginning of the XXth century
** K. Marx – V. Zasulich: Capital and the situation in Russia
** L. Trotsky, theoretician of the permanent revolution
*** The law of uneven and combined development
*** The permanent revolution
*** The transitional program
** The revolutions in the Third World (China, Cuba, Algeria)

* '''The revolution in Northern Africa'''
** Short reminder of the historical context of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions
** The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions
*** About the “Arab revolution”
*** Origins of the Tunisian and Egyptian processes
*** “Revolutionary” perspectives of democratic forces

* '''The issue of the permanent revolution'''
** The Tunisian left and the revolutionary process
** The Egyptian left and the revolutionary process

* '''Not to conclude'''
** Impact of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions

== Reading materials ==


* Excerpt from Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. I
* Excerpt from Leon Totsky, Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution, 1938
* [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1997 "Tunisia, Egypt: a revolutionary process of world scope"] Adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International at its annual meeting in late February 2011
* [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article20252 "The Workers, Middle Class, Military Junta and Permament Revolution"] el-HAMALAWY Hossam