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To understand the current revolutionary situation in the Arab Middle East, the conditions of existence of state power have to be taken into account, i.e., neoliberal restructuring, restructuring of classes, transformations in the ruling parties, the imperialist embedding of the state, the brutal disorganization of the subordinate classes, and the shifts of weight among the state apparatuses. These developments have created new contradictions and conflicts of interest which erupted due to the accumulation of resistance on the one hand, and on the other, due to international and regional shifts (the geostrategic weakness of the U.S. and its allies in the region, economic crisis), and due to political mistakes of state parties, alienation of parts of the ruling classes and state actors. In times of global and national crises, and in the absence of a democratic socialist organization of the popular classes in the Arab region, fractions of the ruling classes and certain forces of the state apparatus with the assistance of international forces help promote the initiative for change. They appeal to the popular classes, who long engaged in multiple forms of resistance, in the struggle of these fractions against other dominant fractions in the power bloc.

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The war in Iraq can neither be understood as a sectarian nor as a civil war, rather, it implicitly refers to internal struggles for power within the governing cliques and their opponents. The civil war artefact is presented by the occupier and the governing cliques in Iraq. The rational behind the construction is to further legitimize the occupation and the presence of an ever-increasing number of troops, on which the position of power of the governing cliques relies immensely. Rather than a civil war, what exists is a correlation of political power and economic interest between the Bush administration and the ruling cliques in Iraq in as much as both political agendas depend on the compliance of the other.

If anything brings the construction Bin-Laden discoursivly to the fore it is a specific conflict situation with the participation of the USA in the arabic space: a conflict situation between the dominant political regimes, the opposing conservativ-liberal blocks, and an extremist wing. The conflict could be characterized as between two political strategies about the restructuring of this economic as well as geostrategic important space. The construction Bin-Laden is the name of this violence game.