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The last world revolution

dimanche 22 juin 2025, par Robert Paris

An old civilization dies and returns to barbarism, a new civilization is born in pain

The wave of protests, which began in 2010-2011, swept across the world but nowhere led to the working people taking power, an essential step towards socialism.

Everyone has noticed that the wave of revolutions, that of the "springs" on all continents, from Tunisia to Egypt to Kazakhstan, via France, Algeria and Sudan, has demonstrated treasures of rejection of all forms of exploitation and oppression, of self-organization of the oppressed, of solidarity, of spontaneity, of revolt, of grandeur and of generosity, in a world where all this seemed extinguished...

Why did the last revolutionary wave in the world fail, leading only to massacres, wars, civil wars, fascism, dictatorships, and military coups ?

Why are the political and social reactions we are experiencing all over the world the consequences of this failure ?

Why is a new wave of revolutions sweeping the world inevitable ? What lessons from previous revolutionary waves does the upcoming struggle need ? What organizations, programs, and perspectives have been lacking and will need to be implemented ?

Why would revolution be even more relevant today than in other eras ?

Because we are on the brink of the abyss, close to an immense catastrophe that has been announced only to capitalists and not to workers, yet mortally threatens the latter. And against this historic catastrophe, there is only one remedy : for humanity to take another step forward, taking its own fate into its own hands.

What is the evidence that this critical situation is very close to us ?

First, there are the economic signals that began in 2007-2008 with what was called the "subprime crisis" and which is in fact the general tendency of big capital towards crazy speculation due to a growing lack of productive investments in relation to the increasingly excessive mass of capital. Capitalism has since ceased to be a system based on alternating growth/recession punctuated by bankruptcies and has since considered that any fall of a trust was "systemic", that is to say, threatened the entire global edifice ! This means that States and central banks have used all their means to "save" capitalists when they were threatened by bankruptcy. The last operation of this type was the one to save the banks, particularly American and Swiss. This situation, in which the system is constantly on the brink of collapse, is completely new in the history of capitalism and shows that the capitalist mode of production has reached a limit it cannot cross, that it has succeeded so much that its success exceeds what its functioning allows. This means that a growing share of capital can no longer produce new real profits, based on the exploitation of human labor. This capital, whose mass is constantly growing, is becoming "harmful" and must periodically be bought up by states and public financial institutions. This operation of permanent bailouts thanks to public funds is a mark of the new morbidity of capitalism.

The Covid crisis, the massive population attack it caused, with deaths, injuries, and orphans, the slowdown in the entire economy and the increase in unemployment and poverty, and finally the propensity of governments to take advantage of it to increase social dictatorship everywhere, all this has shown that the global system is at the end of its rope. The inability, or rather the refusal, of governments to combat the pandemic has underlined that we have left the dynamic phase of the system and entered that of its necrosis.

A few years before the start of the pandemic waves, a wave of revolts and revolutions swept across the world, beginning in 2011. Revolutionary situations were crushed in blood and transformed into wars and civil wars or bloody dictatorships. In Syria, the revolution was not only transformed into a civil war, it was also transformed into a world war in the sense that the great imperialist powers intervened concurrently, each choosing a side in the civil war and clashing with each other more and more violently. These powers then began to pursue such a policy in each conflict, thus pushing towards a new war, the one in Ukraine, which followed the transformation of the Ukrainian revolution into a civil war and this war continues to this day. And the situation in Israel/Palestine is still of the same type. At the beginning, there was the rise of revolts and revolutions, on the Palestinian side, against both the Israeli and Palestinian ruling classes, then there was the armed action of the possessing classes and their allies to transform this situation into a military confrontation which became more and more barbaric and has not ceased.

The world is once again divided into two imperialist blocs, one around the USA and the other around Russia/China, and these two groups threaten in every region of the world to transform any local uprising into a massive military confrontation with increasingly barbaric massacres.

The global system has entered a war economy where ever-increasing funds are being devoted to the production of weapons of mass destruction, with each side striving to create machines of destruction, each more terrifying than the last.

A response to those who think that the proletarians will inevitably allow themselves to be driven en masse to the cemetery or to work which has become a new gulag, and will be incapable of building a socialist society : the reasons for our confidence in the future of humanity

1°) Even countries that were believed to be crushed by ferocious dictatorships have experienced waves of revolutions since the spring of 2011 in which the popular masses have revealed themselves to be full of combativeness, capabilities and hope in the struggle and have begun to shake the domination of the system.

2) The world proletariat is a class that now exists throughout the world and its social weight is at the highest level. The collapse of capitalism has not fundamentally weakened the proletariat. The transformations of capitalism have not changed a fundamental point of the proletariat : it is still not attached to the system and can only seek to overthrow it, even if this is not at all the case for the majority of its organizations, or rather the organizations that falsely claim to be part of it.

3) Many workers’ struggles in the world are trying to be conducted in a self-organized manner and the proletarian perspective, that of the soviets, remains relevant.

4) Capitalism, on the other hand, is in its death throes. It manages to endure, but the longer it drags out its death, the more serious the causes become, particularly the relative fall in productive investment compared to the total mass of capital, which has reached dizzying heights.

5°) What is presented as "the failure of communism" is a fiction since Stalinism was in no way a socialist experiment nor did it stem from the revolutionary policies of Lenin and Trotsky.

6) The absence of revolutionary parties in the world is certainly an unfavorable factor for the proletariat, but it is by no means a major obstacle. Let us remember that revolutionary parties are often born during revolutions, particularly in bourgeois revolutions.

7) The political knowledge that revolutionaries can use as tools of combat is at a higher level than ever before.

It was not by chance or simply a contagion of feelings of revolt that this revolutionary wave became international. It was because it responded to a global crisis of the system dominating the entire world. Just as the counterrevolutionary response was global.

Let us first recall the international character of the revolts and revolutions that swept across the world following the global economic and social collapse of 2007-2008 :

And first of all the "out with the ruling classes" in October 2008 in Iceland (which will be the slogan of all the revolts and revolutions of this international wave of protest against all capitalist powers)

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article852

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article914

https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article919&_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_islandaise

January 2009 : Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Iceland, France, social revolt is rising in Europe.

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article894

2010 : A new situation, a new point of view

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1616

January 2010 : Haiti

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve195

March 2010 : Burma

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve258

April 2010 : Kyrgyzstan

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_kyrghize_de_2010

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve287

September 2010 : Mozambique

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve326

December 2010 : Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve400

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Jordan

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Mauritania

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contestation_en_Mauritanie_en_2011

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Oman

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Lebanon

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Egypt

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_%C3%A9gyptienne_de_2011

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Palestine

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Morocco

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Sudan

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Cyprus

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Albania

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve405

January 2011 : Syria

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerre_civile_syrienne

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article2075

January 2011 : Saudi Arabia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve425

https://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/international/article/arabie-saoudite-le-silence-122274

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

January 2011 : Gabon

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve407

January 2011 : Yemen

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve407

What we wrote in January 2011

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1835

February 2011 : Morocco

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve420

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve457

February 2011 : Yemen

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve427

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve431

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve412

February 2011 : Lebanon

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve464

February 2011 : Djibouti

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Bahrain

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve456

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Iraq

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve460

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Libya

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1940

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve428

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Egypt

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve413

February 2011 : Tunisia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve461

February 2011 : Somalia

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Kuwait

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Iran

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Oman

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Burkina Faso

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : China

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : Jordan

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_arabe#Sch%C3%A9mas_de_d%C3%A9roulement_commun

February 2011 : United States

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve448

February 2011 : Cameroon

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve452

February 2011 : Iraqi Kurdistan

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve453

February 2011 : Benin

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve454

February 2011 : Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1915

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1913

February 2011 : from Egypt to Libya, from the USA to Greece and to India or China

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1949

March 2011 : Mauritania

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve468

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7990

March 2011 : Iraq

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve473

April 2011 : Croatia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve491

March 2011 : Syria

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerre_civile_syrienne

May 2011 : Palestine

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve502

May 2011 : Greece

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?rubrique171

January 2012 : Mali

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9bellion_touar%C3%A8gue_de_2012

January 2012 : Romania

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestations_de_2012_en_Roumanie

In 2013, revolt rumbles : Brazil, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia, Egypt, Tunisia

https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article3515

November 2013 : Ukraine

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_de_la_Dignit%C3%A9

February 2014 : Bosnia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3410

February 2014 : Guinea Conakry

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve608

December 2014 : Haiti

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve685

November 2015 : Romania

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve746

January 2016 : Moldova

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2016/01/22/emeutes-contre-le-pouvoir-en-moldavie_4851732_3210.html

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve775

April 2016 : Mayotte

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve608

August 2016 : Ethiopia

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2016/08/10/en-ethiopie-le-pouvoir-reprime-une-vague-de-manifestations_4980835_3210.html

Wave in the former Eastern Bloc countries

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4407

March 2017 : French Guiana

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4405

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement_social_de_2017_en_Guyane

October 2018 : Yellow Vests in France

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve959

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7369

The Yellow Vests are spreading... across the planet

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve967

February 2019 : Hirak in Algeria

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5996

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5800

March 2019 : Nicaragua and Colombia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve993

May 2019 : Sudan

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article6916

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5359

October 2019 : Chile

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestations_de_2019-2021_au_Chili

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5802

October 2019 : Ecuador

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_2019_in_Ecuador

October 2019 : Lebanon

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestations_de_2019-2021_au_Lebanon

November 2019 : Haiti, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Guinea, Catalonia, Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq, Hong Kong, France… The revolution is going global.

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5569

November 2019 : Huge demonstrations multiply : Prague, Algiers, Santiago, Islamabad, Conakry, Barcelona, Hong Kong, London, Baghdad, La Paz, etc.

https://news.google.com/search?q=manifestation%20monstre&hl=fr&gl=FR&ceid=FR%3Afr

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/11/08/de-hongkong-a-santiago-une-contestation-mondialisee_6018419_3210.html

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5601

May 2020 : United States

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5925

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve448

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5952

August 2020 : Belarus

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5957

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve524

https://enseignants.lumni.fr/fiche-media/00000004940/grand-mouvement-de-contestation-en-bielorussie-apres-la-reelection-d-alexandre-loukachenko.html

2021 : Haiti

https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Haiti-Les-mobilisations-massives-contre-Jovenel-Moise-s-intensifient

2021 : Revolts against falsely anti-Covid policies

https://www.estrepublicain.fr/societe/2021/01/26/pays-bas-danemark-liban-les-soulevements-se-multiplient-contre-les-restrictions

https://www.france24.com/fr/vid%C3%A9o/20210130-fr-nw-pkg-f24-japon-rebelles-du-covid-17h

January 2022 : Kazakhstan

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article6629

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volte_de_2022_au_Kazakhstan

March 2022 : Sri Lanka

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article6861

July 2022 : Sri Lanka

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5338

September 2022 : Iran

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article6946

January 2023 : Peru

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/revolte-au-perou-les-manifestants-contre-la-presidente-boluarte-marchent-sur-lima

March 2023 : Israel

https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2023/10/ENDERLIN/66188

November 2024 : Bolivia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7997
And it continues in 2025 :

Revolt in Cameroon

https://reporterre.net/In-Cameroon-the-revolt-of-sugar-workers

Revolt in Serbia

https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Serbia-four-months-of-revolt-in-Nis-and-a-democracy-edit

https://viralmag.fr/serbia-chaos-in-parliament-and-anti-corruption-revolt/

Revolt in Togo

https://viralmag.fr/togo-revolte-contre-la-nouvelle-constitution-que-se-passe-t-il/

Revolt in Greece

https://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2025/03/02/dpcc-m02.html

Revolt in Indonesia

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/03/03/en-indonesie-les-choix-budgetaires-du-president-prabowo-subianto-provoquent-la-colere-de-la-population_6574916_3234.html

Revolt in Mozambique

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/analyse-au-mozambique-une-revolte-populaire-nee-de-l-exasperation-economique-et-electorale_224789

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20241101-une-chape-de-plomb-s-abat-sur-le-mozambique-o%C3%B9-le-pouvoir-craint-une-r%C3%A9volte-populaire

https://africtelegraph.com/blog/2024/12/18/a-popular-revolt-shakes-mozambique/

Revolt in Bangladesh

https://www.ouest-france.fr/monde/bangladesh/bangladesh-la-repression-feroce-du-regime-de-sheikh-hasina-depasse-par-la-revolte-populaire-11dff22a-4764-11ef-bd80-f32123ed3357

Revolt in Iran

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/05/21/iran-2-ans-apres-quest-devenue-la-revolution-populaire-lancee-apres-la-mort-de-letudiante-mahsa-amini-11962134.php

Revolt in Israel

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/03/28/israel-une-derive-populiste-arretee-par-une-revolte-populaire_6167292_3232.html

Revolt in Senegal

https://afriquexxi.info/In-Senegal-chronicle-of-an-announced-insurrection

Revolt in India

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/02/17/en-inde-modi-defie-par-une-nouvelle-manifestation-de-masse-des-paysans_6217080_3210.html

Revolt in Serbia

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/d%C3%A9cryptage/20250320-serbie-la-r%C3%A9volte-%C3%A9tudiante-peut-elle-faire-tomber-le-r%C3%A9gime-vucic

https://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/societe/afp/maree-humaine-a-belgrade-plus-de-100-000-personnes-manifestent-contre-la-corruption-23717485.php

Revolt in Cameroon

https://reporterre.net/In-Cameroon-the-revolt-of-sugar-workers

Revolt in Türkiye

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/21/en-turquie-la-contestation-s-etend-apres-l-arrêt-du-maire-d-istanbul_6584323_3210.html

https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/europe/nayez-pas-peur-le-peuple-est-la-en-turquie-une-foule-monstre-defie-erdogan-2155525

Revolt in Greece

https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/europe/un-jour-historique-mobilisation-inedite-en-grece-pour-reclamer-la-verite-sur-la-catastrophe-railroviaire-de-tempi-2151525

The results of the wave of revolutions since 2010-2011...

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article2668

What program for the social revolution ?

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1932

What are the prospects ?

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1842

Progress report on the revolutionary wave

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article2668

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1847

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1912

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5015

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1842

An example of proletarian revolutionary politics that was lacking even where the working class had mobilized en masse : Egypt

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1918

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1921

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1926

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article2635

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1997

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1891

Another example : Tunisia

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1874

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1863

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7490
It took a bloodbath (pandemic, dictatorships, fascism, violent repression) to momentarily stop the revolutionary wave

Reactions of the propertied classes to the revolution : an example, Syria

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4768

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article2886

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3890

Wave of counter-revolution

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7567

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5925

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve962

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve482

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve377

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3401

https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7581https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7581