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
• "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
• "The Workers, Middle Class, Military Junta and Permament Revolution" el-HAMALAWY Hossam