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Film: The Real Estate Tax Collectors Strike ع الرصيف: وثائقي عن إضراب موظفي الضرائب العقارية

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-16 09:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Nora Younis has posted a documentary she put together of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike…
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Mahalla hungerstrikers taken to hospital نقل قياديي غزل المحلة كمال الفيومي وطارق أمين للمستشفى

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 22:09 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I’ve just received news from a Socialist source in Cairo saying detained Ghazl el-Mahalla hungerstrikers Kamal el-Foyumi and Tarek Amin were also transferred to the Bourg el-Arab prison hospital after their health deteriorated… I still don’t have more details about when exactly were they transferred, but their health (and Kareem’s who was transfered earlier) is [...]
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Updates on the Real Estate Tax Collectors بيان من قيادات الضرائب العقارية حول الفساد في الوزارة

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 21:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The strike leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors have issued a statement on the corruption inside the Tax Collection Authority and the Ministry of Finance… Click on the photo below to read it… Note that this is the second statement to be issued by the strike leaders under the new name: “The Independent General Union [...]
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بيان من الضرائب العقارية: فلنتضامن مع المحلة

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 07:30 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The strike leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors, who are now acting as a defacto independent labor union, have issued a statement in solidarity with the detained Mahalla activists Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kamal el-Fayoumi and Tarek Amin…
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Egyptian stock market continues to decline

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 00:37 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From the Daily News Egypt… Egypt’s bourse slid Wednesday for the seventh straight session led by construction and banking stocks, which were still reeling from the government move to cut tax breaks on energy-intensive firms and hike energy prices. “The government’s decision to cut tax breaks [for energy-intensive firms in free zones] has helped drag down the [...]
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From the Memory of the Class: The Mahalla Uprising إنتفاضة المحلة

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-14 23:53 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Visualize the Revolution…
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Class War in the Egyptian Countryside تابع أخبار الحرب الطبقية بالريف المصري

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-14 12:59 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click on the poster below to check out Tadamon (The Solidarity Committee with the Agrarian Reform Peasantry) for continuous updates on the class struggle in the Egyptian countryside… Read reports the struggle against the regime’s oppression from State Security police assaults, burning down of peasants’ houses, to repeated govt attempts to strip farmers from their [...]
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Arab dominoes

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 09:54 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…
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Urban inflation hits 16.4%

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:29 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From the Daily News Egypt… CAPMAS announced Thursday that urban inflation in Egypt rose to a new three-year high of 16.4 percent in the year to April, up from 14.4 percent in the year to March. Abu Bakr El-Guindi, head of the state statistics agency, told reporters in a news conference that inflation was driven mainly by [...]
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Mubarak’s pigs order mobile firms to bar anonymous users

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 11:29 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From Reuters… Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday. The move comes as Egypt tries to combat a wave of public discontent over rising prices and low wages that [...]
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شبح 1977 يخيم على القاهرة

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:20 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Nasser Nouri of gas stations in the Cairo neighborhoods of Hadayeq el-Qobba, where Nasser lives, and Ghamra… Plainclothes police agents were deployed close to the gas stations, Nasser told me, fearing protests or clashes with angry drivers… According to virtually everyone I speak with in the capital, the [...]
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Cairo U Socialists mobilize against increased tuition fees

3arabawy - Sat, 2007-11-24 01:26 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Socialist Students on Cairo University campus are mobilizing against the increased tuition fees. Click on the poster below to read Comrade Mostafa’s report… Al-Masry Al-Youm also reports on the campaign here… There’s so much happening on the other campuses too, but I don’t have time to post on all events, so kindly keep an eye on [...]
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