Imperialism and crisis in the Middle East
Channel: In Defence of Marxism
Date: 03/04/2018

Hamid Alizadeh - editor at www.marxist.com - speaks at a recent meeting of the LSE Marxist society about the political situation in the region.

From the Arab Spring of 2011 to the present day: Hamid provides a overview of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary developments over the past seven years in the Middle East.

Today, the focus is on the civil war in Syria and the heroic struggle of the Kurds. But crisis is also brewing in Saudi Arabia, home to the main bastion of reaction in the region.

Hamid discusses the processes unfolding in all of these countries, as well as the increasing contradictions facing American imperialism, which is no longer able to play its hegemonic role of the past.