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Opinion: What’s the Point of Mobilising Around COP?

by Tatiana Garavito & Nathan Thanki

Time and again, host countries have used COPs to greenwash their environmental records while restricting civil society participation. This doesn’t mean they're not still worth organising around, argue Tatiana Garavito and Nathan Thanki.

Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: What Were the Roots of the Arab Uprisings?

by David Wearing

Ten years ago today, thousands poured onto the streets of Egypt and the Arab uprisings began in earnest. In the first piece of a new series on what these events can teach us about Western imperialism in the twenty-first century, David Wearing takes a look at the roots of the uprisings.

Novara Docs: I Was an Egyptian Revolutionary

10 years ago a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, thousands poured onto the streets of Egypt to confront a dictatorship. In this video one protestor reflects on his experience all those years ago.

Airstrikes on Syria Show the Hypocrisy at the Heart of Britain’s Foreign Policy

by Aaron Bastani

Theresa May can’t claim that striking weapons facilities in Syria is tantamount to humanitarian intervention while cosying up to some of the world’s most oppressive autocracies, argues Aaron Bastani.

April 6 Youth Movement: The State is Silencing a Voice of Egypt’s Revolution

by Heather McRobie

Last month, the leaders of the April 6 Youth Movement spent the 8th anniversary of the Egyptian group behind bars. Crucial to the 2011 revolution, their experiences since then show how Egypt has fallen back to the ‘deep state’.

6 Things the Mubarak Trial Means for Egypt and the Revolution

by Heather McRobie

A judge’s decision to throw out the charges against Mubarak for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the February 2011 Egyptian revolution was unsurprising, and President Sisi’s response was revealing - but it does not mean “the end of the Arab Spring.”