The absence of revolutionary political leadership in the working class has enabled, at least for the time being, the Egyptian bourgeoisie to regroup.
By Joseph Kishore | 30 March 2011
Egyptian protesters.
The first three months of 2011 have witnessed a series of extraordinary events: revolutionary upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa that have toppled two entrenched dictatorships and staggered several others; mass protests in Wisconsin that herald the resurgence of long-suppressed working class struggle in the United States; and the waging of a new imperialist war. In addition, a nuclear crisis in Japan, triggered by a tsunami, confronts the entire world with an ecological disaster—arising from the reckless profit-motivated use of nuclear power plants—with as yet unknown economic and social consequences.
