A-Infos (en) ASF-IWA, From our friends in Tunisia - cnt-ait, The Arab Spring: failed revolutions and a successful transfer of power (fr)

It seems as if there is a predetermined pattern or a pre-equipped program for all the 
so-called (Arab Spring revolutions), demonstrations against a corrupt and decaying old 
authority, suppressed by the regime's police forces, the army intervenes to stop the 
repression after a while and declares itself a neutral force outside the regime and rule 
among the political forces The Salafis were used as a scarecrow to frighten the liberal 
forces, handing power to the right wing of the regime represented in the moderate 
political Islam (the Brotherhood) for a while, and then transferring power to other wings 
of the former regime, wings that did not emerge in the first rows of it, the above It is 
almost malach What happened in all the Arab Spring revolutions, with different differences 
imposed by the local circumstances of each state, the Islamists always enter the line, 
always end up handing over power to the former regime, the army always plays the role of 
neutral government, and the revolutionary movement always ends in a worse economic and 
political situation. From those revolutions,

We can, of course, justify and explain this view

But let's start by defining the pattern of movement of these revolutions from within:

1 - usually led by the middle class with a heavy presence of students and youth, the 
popular classes are shifted to the background of the picture once the period of violent 
clash with the police.

2. These revolutions lack the political axis, where there is no presence of any clear 
political program or organized political forces. They usually do not present any clear 
program or objectives, which offer populist slogans and (demands), not programs or objectives.

3 - These revolutions lack a radical position, they do not aim to remove (the whole) 
system, but calls for political reforms limited to reform the political system, and 
improve the conditions of voting, and combat administrative corruption and get rid of 
certain figures in the system of government.

4 - These revolutions generally avoid a real clash with the (regime), with the state as a 
whole, it avoids the creation of dual power by declaring a revolutionary government from 
the street, for example, and it avoids the control or occupation of the joints of the 
state such as parliament, banks, headquarters of ministries, etc.

5 - Avoiding those revolutions complete break with the regime, they are hostile to part of 
it, but the alliance of another part (the army) and its transformation to rule over the 
conflict addressed to its demands.

6 - These revolutions simply represent the maximum possible movement of the middle class, 
they are reformist, conciliatory, does not announce a complete departure from obedience to 
the system, avoid violent clash and prefer peaceful forms of expression, and ask the 
system to repair part of the rest of its parts.

These revolutions succeeded, they succeeded in reshaping the ruling state system. In 
Tunisia, they succeeded in restoring the old guard in the Constitutional Party to rule. It 
is even more so in both Algeria and Sudan in the second wave of the Arab Spring.

Simply these were not revolutions, but rather limited uprisings resulting from the 
restlessness of the middle class, which met with the restlessness of the wings of 
government from the control of one wing for too long, those called revolutions, which 
lacked any real class dimension or even a biased economic program for the poorer classes, 
and lacked the courage to depart from Obeying the state and declaring a revolutionary 
government or political system are not what we anarchists are fighting for. We do not 
underestimate its value as a school to train the street and the masses, and an instrument 
to expose and expose the entire state system, but we believe and strive for a class 
revolution by masses of hard-working people in order to destroy the authority of the state 
and give power And wealth for people, For real hardworking people.

http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/10/13/printemps-arabe
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