revolution
The Revolution Will Not Be Petitioned
Almost 20,000 people have signed a petition to oust the Australian Prime Minister. Not that that actually means anything.
The Last Ever Interview with the Leaders of Peru's Shining Path Guerrilla Army
Comrade Alipio and two other high-ranking soldiers of the Shining Path were killed this August when a cocaine trafficker turned police informant lured them into a booby-trapped brothel. In 2010, I was marched into Peru's jungle for a rare, and intimate...
Bahrain Just Bought More Tear Gas Canisters Than It Has Citizens
A document leaked to UK-based advocacy group Bahrain Watch stated that the kingdom planned to import a whole load of tear gas from South Korea to use against civilians. The shipment amounts to approximately 1.6 million tear gas canisters and 90,00...
'The Square' Shows the Rise and Fall of Egypt's Revolution
A new documentary about the Egyptian revolution follows six Egyptians who share little in common other than a yearning for justice as they experience more joy, frustration, and terror than most of us will feel in a lifetime.
Sweeping Unrest Under the Rug in Tahrir Square
Last Wednesday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, more than a dozen landscapers watered freshly lain swatches of grass and hauled in brand-new potted plants. It was hard to imagine the days when the flames of righteous discontent were fanned by thousands of...
Sudan Revolts: Internet Blackouts and Dead Protesters on the Streets
Sudan is literally on fire. The past five days in Sudan were filled with blocked roads, gas stations on fire, and live ammunition at the funerals of dead protesters, and there have been multiple reports of live ammunition and heavy tear gas in multiple...
A Divided Egypt Battles with Fireworks, Rocks, and Guns
The young man's face was covered in a flag made to serve as a bloody, makeshift shroud. His unconscious head bounced with the jog of the men who carried him. He was among hundreds hurt in Cairo on Friday, when tens of thousands of supporters of former...
In Nasr City, a Demonstration Ends in Bloodshed
Near the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo's Nasr City, hundreds of supporters of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party voiced their disbelief that the mechanisms of democracy that installed their leader were so...
Eritrea Has Failed to Realize Its Revolutionary Dream
Once a revolution is over, how do you judge its success? Twenty years ago, Eritrea—in the northeast of Africa—became a legally independent nation, having won its de-facto independence from Ethiopia two years earlier, in 1991. But creating a free and...
Gigi Ibrahim Discusses What Happens Next in Egypt with Tim Pool
Egyptian blogger, journalist, and activist Gigi Ibrahim joins VICE's Tim Pool to discuss what happens now that Morsi is no longer president.
The Muslim Brotherhood Prepares for Its 'Day of Rage'
“They say we are terrorists, then fine,” Mustafa said. “I will be a terrorist. I am ready to pick up a Kalashnikov and fight. In the south, we are already fighting against the coup,” he added, referencing the wild, unsourced rumours circulating among...