Saturday, June 9, 2012

Nonviolent, Leaderless and Unsuccessful: The False Promise of Egypt's Tahrir Square

CAIRO – Since its beginning, Egypt’s January 25 revolution has been hailed as a model of nonviolent resistance to oppression and also as a portrait of popular, leaderless action. But the most recent Tahrir sit-in, which began last Saturday in response to the sentencing of Mubarak and his top aides, highlights that this tactic is no longer successful — if it ever was at all. more

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