from arab spring to global revolution

[bcbm]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/05/arab-spring-global-revolution

[Comrade Samuel]

Opinions on Guardian are pretty low around here and if I'm not mistaken nobody really takes what they say seriously. The one thing about this article that I found really noteworthy is that it reaffirmed my thoughts about how the social conditions/ potential for world-wide revolution today bears striking similarities to those in the 1840's.

[MP5]

I wouldn't rank the guardian any worse over all then most news outlets. Certainly no worse then most here in North America and it seems less biased towards certain groups then the BBC is.

I don't think there has been this much obvious discontent around the world in a long time now. In the west there is a totally stagnant economy and in the middle east you have dictators on the verge of tumbling. Not to mention what is happening in Greece, Spain, Russia and other places in Europe. Even here in Canada more and more young people my age and younger are not finding jobs coming out on college or university like they would have 10 years ago and in the Us things are much worse still.

Everything that is needed for a revolution is there. Except the will of course.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

What I know is as soon as there is revolution is Spain there will be revolution in Portugal.
That's right, I am expecting the spanish to do it first, because I consider their movement much more radical.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I haven't heard much out of Greece recently. But I assume that the economy is still bad and shit still sucks. Back in 2011 things seemed more hopeful, but as of recently the main focus of news out of Greece seems to be Golden Dawn (booo!) and SYRIZA (yawn!). Mainstream political recuperation is in full effect.

Spain and Portugal had the strike back in November, but I'm not sure what the political situation is like there currently.

OWS, part of the "movements of 2011", is nowhere to be found. I guess they helped out in Hurricane Sandy, but that's about it. The situation in the US is so depressing.

The only place where the struggle post-2011 has not really lost much steam at all is in north Africa (namely Tunisia and Egypt) and some spots in the middle east. Honestly I don't really get where the author is coming from in regards to this supposed "shift in consciousness".