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It has now been well over a year since the criminal explosion of August 4, 2021 in Beirut’s port. The blast caused roughly two hundred deaths and thousands of injuries, and led to the resignation of Prime Minister Diab. A new government was formed in mid-September 2021 by billionaire Prime (...)
Understanding Contentious Politics From Below In Post- War Lebanon
The October 2019 uprising in Lebanon opened up many questions regarding the dynamics of contention from below, the exceptionality of that revolutionary moment in the history of Lebanon, and the possibilities of change through (...)
On August 4, 2020, a new tragedy struck Lebanon. An explosion of unprecedented magnitude in the country’s history occurred in the port of Beirut and left more than 180 dead (Lebanese, Syrians and other nationalities), more than 6,500 injured and 300,000 homeless. Dozens of people also remain (...)
Many Lebanese people had hoped for a silver lining to this tragedy of an independent government and new elections.
The tremendous blast that shook Lebanon on 4 August will be recorded as a major turning point in the country’s history, no less so than the much less powerful explosion that (...)
The explosion that devastated Beirut was an indictment of the parties that have misruled Lebanon for decades. Now, however, those parties are using the disaster as a pretext to deepen neoliberal policies, with French leader Emmanuel Macron and the IMF egging them on.
On August 4, 2020, an (...)
This month’s apocalyptic explosion in Beirut was a symbol for the disintegration of a Lebanese state plagued by political and economic crisis – and increasingly subject to the intrigue of its old imperial power, France.
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” (...)
Lebanon does not have the means to reconstruct its port and city centre. The horrific 4 August explosion and the financial crisis are the result of a dysfunctional system put in place after the country’s civil war. Foreign aid is needed for reconstruction, but more urgent still is the reform (...)
On August 4th, an explosion of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, left more than 170 dead, thousands wounded, and hundreds of thousands homeless. “This was criminal incompetence, and they are all implicated,” says Lebanese writer and researcher Joey Ayoub who (...)
A statement from left-wing collective Ta’amim al-Masaref in Lebanon, where a protest movement of revolutionary proportions is shaking the state to its foundations.
An uprising is underway in the streets of Beirut, following the huge explosion that rocked the city on 4 August, killing at (...)
Popular commemoration for the victims of the blast.
Justice for the victims, revenge from the regime.
The street is ours, and to the street we return.
We were all born on August 4, 2020, at six in the evening, in Ward 12. We were born, or rather, we all died and some of us came back to (...)
In the aftermath of the explosion, the people of Beirut poured out into the streets to demonstrate their anger at the government corruption and incompetence. An estimated 300,000 are now homeless.
Suzi Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program on Jacobin Radio, August 8, 2020 on (...)
Since the massive explosion, the state has been absent, leaving people to fend for themselves – while leaders seem more concerned with dodging blame.
On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave across a radius of more than 7 kilometres. The (...)
Decades of stoic resistance in the face of tragedies has turned to rage after the devastating explosion in Beirut’s port.
Two days later, and we are still counting the dead, accounting for the living and digging for the buried alive.
Two days later, and every waking hour, every sleepless (...)
An explosion at the Port of Beirut has devastated the city, killing more than 130 people and wounding thousands more. It is an enormous tragedy; a huge blow to a population already reeling from economic, political and health crises. Corruption and incompetence are to blame, but the truth is (...)
At the time of writing at least 100 people have lost their lives and a further 4,000 have been wounded following an explosion in the Port of Beirut. While the actual cause remains uncertain, the tragedy calls to attention the tremendous consequences of a lack of port security.
The explosion, (...)
The following is an interview conducted by Bidayat Magazine with a group of Marxist organizers working to form a revolutionary party in Beirut, all of whom played an important role in the recent “Nationalize The Banks” campaign. They include Elia El Khazen, Maya Zebdawi, Sleiman Damien, Pascal (...)
The momentum for liberation is never lost; it simply picks up at different speeds in different places, at different times.
‘The people want the downfall of the regime’: Lebanon in struggle Lausan Collective (LC): Can you tell us a bit about why the protests in Lebanon began?
Joey Ayoub (...)
Among the mass protests that erupted across the globe in October last year, Lebanon’s were some of the largest, targeting both a failing neoliberal system and ingrained sectarianism. Now in their fourth month, the protests are showing no sign of diminishing.
For more than a hundred days, (...)
As the Lebanese revolutionary uprising enters its third month, the ancien regime has already unleashed counterrevolutionary practices in all its forms. Fear mongering of pre-October 17 sectarian tensions alongside blaming the impending economic collapse on the continuous protests and reviving (...)
A preoccupation with the fallout from Lebanon’s financial crisis caused protests to die down, but it now seems the ruling class are mistaken in thinking the uprising is over.
The thick smoke of burning tires blanketed parts of Lebanon once again, as a second wave of mass anti-corruption (...)
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