Listen to Hamid Alizadeh, editor of the Iranian Marxist newspaper and website Mobarezeye Tabagathi, speak at the Marxist Summer School (18 June) on the dramatic events that began late last year, sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East, which have come to be know collectively as the Arab revolution.

On May 26th, Fred Weston and Arash Azizi presented on the Arab Revolution and Iran at May Day Books in Minneapolis, MN. Fred Weston in dealing with the Arab Revolution dedicated some time to explaining the complicated situation in Libya and Syria, while Arash Azizi highlighted the effect of the revolution in rekindling the movement in Iran. [see Socialist Appeal]

Alan Woods, Political Editor of the In Defence of Marxism website and a leading cadre of the International Marxist Tendency, and Muayad Ahmed a leading cadre of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq & Editor of the ‘Alsheoiya Al-Omalya’ (Worker Communism) monthly paper, speaking on the way forward for the Revolution in the Arab world at a recent meeting in London.

Lal Khan recently appeared on Pakistan State TV, PTV, in the TANAZUR programme, hosted by Farrukh Suhail Goeindi. He spoke about the Arab Revolution, its impacts on Pakistan and on the perspectives for a similar movement in Pakistan and also the preparations of the Marxists for such a revolution. He also spoke on the character of the PPP and about religious fundamentalism. We are providing the links to the interview on PTV:

Alan Woods speaking at a recent meeting of the International Marxist Tendency on the question of the Arab Revolution.

John Peterson of the Workers International League and Socialist Appeal magazine introduces a discussion of the heroic movement of the Egyptian and Tunisia masses that has transformed the atmosphere in the Middle East. ; Presented at Mayday Books in Minneapolis, MN on February 10th, 2011.