While mainstream commentators and analysts have tended to scoff at claims that this latest round of uprisings will achieve any lasting change at the level of the state or society, there is no doubt that the return of popular revolts to the Middle East is bringing a new sense of purpose and hope to millions across the region, after the bloody drama of counter-revolution and war that seemed to have buried the hopes of 2011. In the case of Sudan, the mass movement forced a negotiated transfer of power to a transitional government composed of representatives of opposition parties and protest leaders in an uneasy coalition with some of the old regime’s generals and militia bosses. The most significant mobilisations from below have triggered major political crises for the ruling class in the past year-claiming the scalps of two presidents and two prime ministers. 1 Meanwhile, the temperature of social and political struggles has been visibly rising in Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan. From Algiers to Beirut and Baghdad to Khartoum, it appears that revolution is once again “the choice of the people”-as a slogan echoed by tens of thousands on protests in Sudan puts it.
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