Dr. Tim Anderson & Jay Tharappel discuss the failure of the Western Left to identify the resistance to US imperialism during the wars of the ‘Arab Spring’. Why does the Western Left so often fall for ‘colour revolutions’?
Tim Anderson
Tim Anderson was a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney for 20 years. Now he is Director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He researches and writes on development, rights and self-determination in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has published many dozens of chapters and articles in a range of academic books and journals. His latest books are Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2015), The Dirty War on Syria (Global Research, Montreal, 2016) and AXIS OF RESISTANCE- Towards an Independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019).
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