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, by AMIN Samir, HUI Wang, LAU Kin Chi
Interview with Samir Amin, 02-09-11, at World Social Forum, Dakar, Senegal.
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Samir Amin (SA): In the short paper , I wanted to stress the strategy of the enemy, that is, the strategy of the USA and the ruling class of Egypt. Many people do not understand this. Now I (…)
, by ABBAS Kamal
Our guest author today, writing from Cairo, is Kamal Abbas, general coordinator of Egypt’s Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS), who last year accepted the AFL-CIO’s 2009 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award on behalf of Egypt’s independent labor movement. The article is (…)
, by TAMMAM Hossam
Any discussion of the status of Islamists in a new Egypt makes little sense if it’s based on the same data that was previously used to study religious movements, and if it ignores the fact that Egypt has witnessed a revolution that destroyed many of the old features of its religious scene.
The (…)
, by RAMADAN Fatma
In the five years prior to Egypt’s popular uprising, Egyptian workers have repeatedly demonstrated their capacity to fight against their employers and Hosni Mubarak’s police state. While textile workers have led the way with dramatic, high-profile strikes, the new labor activism has involved (…)
, by Coalition of the Youths of the Wrath
Fellow great Egyptian citizens ... We are your sons, your daughters, your brothers and sisters who are protesting in Tahrir square and other squares of Egypt, promise you not to go back to our homes until the demands of your great revolution are realized.
Millions have gone out to overthrow (…)
Revolutionary socialists in Egypt issued this statement about the Egyptian uprising and the tasks that the movement faces as the struggle continues in the coming weeks.
Glory to the martyrs! Victory to the revolution!
What is happening today is the largest popular revolution in the history (…)
, by BEININ Joel
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan professor of history and professor of Middle Eastern history at Stanford University. His research and writing focuses on workers, peasants, and minorities in the modern Middle East and on Israel, Palestine, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Between 2004 and (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The current crisis and turmoil can not go on. And after the people said their word the only way out of the current situation is the stepping down of Mubarak, the cause of all hardship that Egyptians endured throughout the past 30 years, the cause of the current paralysis of Egyptian economy, (…)
, by Aisha
February 2011
Hail to the Glory, Liberty, Democracy and Social Justice that are brought back to Egypt by the people’s revolution
The wind of change that was triggered by the Tunisian Jasmine Popular Revolution for democracy and social justice has arrived to Egypt. The Egyptian people, with (…)
, by El SAADAWI Nawal
I have lived to witness and participate in the Egyptian Revolution from Jan 25, 2011 until the moment of writing this essay in the morning of Sunday, Feb 6, 2011. Millions of Egyptians, men and women, Muslims and Christians, from all doctrines and beliefs, are united against the current (…)
, by El SHAKRY Omnia
A primer in Egyptian history
When the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 began, we heard media pundits, friends, and colleagues milling about in search of apt metaphors to describe the mass protests and revolution in Egypt. In so far as “history” was mobilized in these discussions, it was generally as (…)
, by JOHNSON Ian, JOHNSTONE Diana
As US-backed strongmen around North Africa and the Middle East are being toppled or shaken by popular protests, Washington is grappling with a crucial foreign-policy issue: how to deal with the powerful but opaque Muslim Brotherhood. In Egypt, the Brotherhood has taken an increasingly forceful (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, SULEHRIA Farooq
To help explain the thrilling developments in Egypt, Farooq Sulehria interviewed leading Arab scholar-activist Gilbert Achcar on February 4.
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Farooq Sulehria – Do you think that Mubarak’s pledge on February 1st not to contest the next election represented a (…)
, by SHAWKI Ahmed
International Socialist Review editor Ahmed Shawki reports from Cairo on the mass demonstrations that shifted the balance away from the violence of the regime.
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February 4, 2011
ANTI-MUBARAK demonstrators gathered in the hundreds of thousands on Friday, in Cairo’s (…)
, by AL-AMIN Esam
"There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.” -V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
“Victory is accomplished through the perseverance of the last hour.” Prophet Muhammad (570-632 AD)
According to the CIA’s declassified documents and records, senior CIA operative, (…)
, by INMAN Phillip, MUBARAK Gamal
Gamal and Hosni Mubarak are reported to have built up huge fortunes, including properties in London. Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images President Hosni Mubarak’s family fortune could be as much as $70bn (£43.5bn) according to analysis by Middle East experts, with much of his wealth in (…)
, by ALI Tariq
“Freedom lies behind a door closed shut,” the great Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote in the last century. “It can only be knocked down with a bleeding fist.” More than that is bleeding in the Arab world at the moment.
The uprisings we are witnessing in Egypt have been a rude awakening for all (…)
, by SUSTAR Lee
Lee Sustar looks at the class conflicts and political struggles that gave rise to the popular rebellion in Egypt—and how these dynamics will continue to play out.
A CLASSIC revolutionary situation unfolded in Egypt in the last days of January, with masses of people taking to the streets and (…)
, by SHAWKI Ahmed
Ahmed Shawki reports from Cairo on a day when Hosni Mubarak and his regime struck back with savage violence directed at protesters demanding that he go.
FORCES LOYAL to Hosni Mubarak counter-attacked on Wednesday in a highly coordinated attempt to intimidate the mass movement that has taken (…)
, by CTUWS
Tens of thousands of Egyptian workers (men and women) join the Millions Persons demonstration/protest events being organized today in the capital, Cairo, in Alexandria and in other parts of Egypt with the aim of overthrowing the regime.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) in (…)
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