Sunday 26 August 2012

Those struggling for freedom in Syria "must not sell out their revolution to foreign backers", writes Barkawi [EPA]

Democracy and the nation-state in Syria and the world


"The challenge in Syria is to make use of its violent opportunity to create a new national people and with it, a new republic. Democracy in the Middle East was never going to be implanted by foreign powers and their occupations. But it can be seized by a politically alive and mature people, who come to collective awareness in and through struggle."

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