Spring is the awakening of nature. The awakening of the air, the earth, the water, and all living things in nature.
The term “Arab Spring” also refers to the awakening of the Arab peoples. However, this term is one used by imperialists and their bourgeois ideologists. When imperialists are involved, they never stand behind anything that benefits the people. This is inherent in the nature of these classes. The interests of two irreconcilable classes are such that if something benefits one, it harms the other. All events between imperialists and the people must be viewed through this framework. Otherwise, it is inevitable to be mistaken, fall into traps, and be used in line with the interests of the opposing class.
The “Arab Spring” process should have been examined through this perspective, and it still needs to be. What was “spring” for the Arab peoples should have been “winter” for the Arab rulers and the world rulers. However, during the so-called “Arab Spring,” the imperialists openly supported it; this situation is contrary to the nature of class reality.
Therefore, it is necessary to look at the events with a different perspective than what is apparent, what is being shown. In our book, we have analysed the so-called Arab Spring through this point of view.
Looking at the results as of 2021, it has become very clear what the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ process was. However, if we do not approach the events from a class-based perspective, through the framework of imperialism and the people, even though the naked truth is visible, it is not possible to evaluate the events correctly or draw the right conclusions. Imperialists can develop new policies depending on the situation and manipulate the people to serve these policies.
In this regard, the process that began as the “Arab Spring” continues to take different forms, and the lands of the Middle East have been turned into a bloodbath by the blood of the Arab people. However, it is also a fact that, regardless of the goals of imperialists’ policies, the resistance of the people has not been defeated. From the Greater Middle East Project (BMENA) to the Arab Spring, imperialist policies have been thwarted by the people’s resistance. In Iraq, in Afghanistan, U.S. imperialism was defeated. In Syria and Yemen, the resistance will win… In Libya, they will lose as well… U.S. and EU imperialists are losing their economic and political dominance from Central Asia to the Middle East and Africa.
The U.S. empire has been destroyed. Power balances in the world are being re-established.
In our book, we examine the U.S.’s Greater Middle East Project (BMENA) from the early 2000s to the 2020s, the Arab Spring process, and the developments that followed. In doing so, we look more closely at the history, economic, social, and political structures of the countries included in the Expanded Middle East and North Africa Project, spanning from Asia to North Africa, and analyze why these countries were targeted.
It seems that the U.S. has not been able to establish the order it wanted anywhere in the world. While at the beginning of the 2000s it declared itself the world’s emperor, by the 2020s, the U.S. can no longer be a decisive force anywhere on its own. However, it continues to create unrest around the world, successfully spilling the blood of the people.
At the beginning of the 2000s, no one could stand against the U.S. imperialist policies, but by the 2020s, Russia and China are seen as the main threats. And the conflicts in the coming years, wherever they occur in the world, will fundamentally be the contradictions between these powers. And of course, the imperialism-people contradiction will deepen these contradictions between the powers.
Imperialist powers and their military-strategic organizations can draw up the projects they want at the negotiation tables. However, none of these projects will come to life because they do not reflect the reality of the people.
The main contradiction lies between imperialism and the oppressed, exploited peoples of the world. The solution to these contradictions is the downfall of imperialism and the liberation of the people.
If we do not view the developments and conflicts in the world from this perspective, it will be inevitable to become an instrument of imperialist policies and be used by the imperialists. In our book, we have tried to highlight this while examining the BMENA and the Arab Spring process.
It is easy to evaluate the process after 20 years, looking at the result. All the lies and demagoguery of imperialism have been exposed. However, to implement the correct policies and stand in the right place, it is essential to look at the issues through a class-based perspective.
In the past 20 years, reformist leftists, opportunists, and Kurdish nationalists have failed to stand on a consistent anti-fascist, anti-imperialist line in both imperialist policies and AKP fascism. Particularly, the Kurdish nationalist movement and the factions following it became pawns of the U.S. in Syria. Similarly, the support given by Kurdish nationalists and the left until 2015 played a role in strengthening the AKP fascism.
Throughout all these processes, the Revolutionary Movement continued its struggle without deviating even an inch from Marxist-Leninist ideology and its claim to power. It resisted the policies of submission and destruction by imperialism and the collaborating AKP government. In times when the world was sinking into despair, the Front grew the resistance to the death. While Afghanistan and Iraq were occupied, Saddam’s statues were dragged through the streets, and the most despicable tortures were carried out on prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, the Front prisoners were giving hope to the world with their epic resistance in the F-type prisons.
In the past 20 years, hope has grown. Even without M-L leadership, the resistance of the people has grown. Those who did not resist, those who chose surrender, have decayed and been eliminated. In our book, we also included writings that were published in the revolutionary movement’s publications regarding these processes. What we have written and said is not an evaluation derived from the outcome; rather, what we wrote during the process is what has actually happened.
Our book was completed in over a year, under conditions with limited research opportunities. During this period, changes occurred regarding the topics we wrote about. For example, on August 31, 2021, U.S. and NATO forces left Afghanistan after 20 years of war, bringing the Taliban to power.
Also, at the end of 2021, the crisis deepened by the U.S.-EU imperialists through the collaborationist Ukrainian government to encircle Russia, which culminated in Russia’s military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the operation is ongoing as of now.
Due to the limitations of our resources, some topics that require more in-depth research may have been treated superficially. Nevertheless, we believe we have outlined many aspects of the U.S.’s imperial strategy, the Greater Middle East Project (BMENA).”
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