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We Must Understand Syria as a Popular Struggle Despite its Complications

Popular resistance has been the most neglected aspect of the Syrian uprising. Revolutionaries struggling for freedom in Syria are not unlike those in Tunisia, Bahrain, Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere.

Dec 19, 2016
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by Joseph Daher

The popular uprising in Syria approaches its sixth year, but the debate among the networks, associations, political parties, and individuals that make up the political left is ongoing.

Alarmingly, some sections of leftist discourse on the Syrian revolution often emulate the rhetoric offered by the mainstream bourgeois, media, and even extr…

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