Revolution Until Victory!: A Marxist Analysis of the Arab Revolution

by Alan Woods

256 pages, Paperback

Published May 31, 2011

About the author

Alan Woods is a Trotskyist political theorist. He is one of the leading members of the British group Socialist Appeal as well as its parent group, the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). He is political editor of the IMT's In Defence of Marxism website.

Woods supported the Militant tendency within the UK Labour Party until the early 1990s, when he and Ted Grant were expelled from the tendency and founded the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party.

Woods has been particularly vocal in his support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and has repeatedly met with the socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, leading to speculation he was a close political adviser.

Reviews

[Corinne Lavallée · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a compelling, fast-paced selection of articles analysing the different stages of the Arab Spring as they unfold, making the reader feel as if they were living these events themselves and biting their nails waiting for what's next. However, the nature itself of the anthology makes for a lot of repetitions, which can be confusing at times, and I wish the editorial committee would have added two or three more articles to wrap up and answer the burning questions left at the end.