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Day: 23 August 2012

Syria

Middle East: The Syrian cauldron

August 23, 2012 Niall Mulholland, CWI, first published in <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a> (magazine of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party, CWI in England & Wales</a>)

What began 18 months ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad is on its way to becoming a full-blown civil war that could spread around the region.

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