Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Tunisia and Egypt need the Arab revolutions to spread

Conflict over religion and identity risks diverting attention from the battle for social justice and national independence



".....How far the Arab revolutions will go – and whether they deliver to their people or lapse back into western clientalism – evidently isn't settled. It will depend on social pressure at home, but also whether they reach the western-backed autocracies now trying to control the process. But one thing is clear: the further democratisation spreads, the greater the chance the Arabs can take control of their own future."

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