The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense Of The Syrian

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a regional w@r, and the 'three monsters' Saleh sees 'treading on Syria's corpse': the Assad regime and its allies, IS!S and other jihadists, and Russia and the US. Where conventional wisdom has it that Assad's ar.my is now battling religious fanatics for control of the country, Saleh argues that the emancipatory, democratic mass movement that ignited the revolution still exists, though it is beset on all sides. 'The Impossible Revolution' is a powerful, compelling critique of Syria's catastrophic w@r, which has profoundly reshaped the lives of millions of Syr!ans.