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…
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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
Visualize the Revolution…
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 [...]
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 [...]
“In times of famine, speculators must be shot on the spot”
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 22:04 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Via Lenin’s Tomb… Speculators feast on soaring commodities prices By Tony Jackson, Financial Times Sunday May 11 2008 11:50 In times of famine, Vladimir Ilych Lenin took a robust line on speculation. “We can’t expect to get anywhere,” he told the Petrograd Soviet in 1918, “unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot”. Rather strong, perhaps, [...]
Via Lenin’s Tomb… Speculators feast on soaring commodities prices By Tony Jackson, Financial Times Sunday May 11 2008 11:50 In times of famine, Vladimir Ilych Lenin took a robust line on speculation. “We can’t expect to get anywhere,” he told the Petrograd Soviet in 1918, “unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot”. Rather strong, perhaps, [...]
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…
The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…
Crisis and Hegemony
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 23:44 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click on the poster below to read a posting by Comrade Richard…
Click on the poster below to read a posting by Comrade Richard…
Anti-price hikes protest صور مظاهرة نقابة الصحافيين ضد غلاء الأسعار
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The poor will pay the price
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 00:35 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
High car license fees impact poor more than rich, amid fears of growing discontent…
High car license fees impact poor more than rich, amid fears of growing discontent…
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 [...]
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 [...]
Egyptian Strikes: More than bread and butter
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:02 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
My feature on the labor movement, in the British Socialist Review, is now available online… The mass demonstrations and strikes that have swept Egypt over the last year have transformed the opposition movement. For decades Egyptians lived in fear of the regime - opposition activists were rounded up, imprisoned and tortured, and strikers gunned down - [...]
My feature on the labor movement, in the British Socialist Review, is now available online… The mass demonstrations and strikes that have swept Egypt over the last year have transformed the opposition movement. For decades Egyptians lived in fear of the regime - opposition activists were rounded up, imprisoned and tortured, and strikers gunned down - [...]
Friday: Workers Coordination Committee Conference المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للجنة التنسيقية للحقوق والحريات النقابية والعمالية
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 22:25 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Workers’ Coordination Committee is holding its fifth annual conference, this Friday at the Press Syndicate… For more information, click on the poster below…
The Workers’ Coordination Committee is holding its fifth annual conference, this Friday at the Press Syndicate… For more information, click on the poster below…
Cab chat
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 19:32 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received this message from my friend Atle in Cairo… Not surprisingly it is the taxi drivers that are really pissed off with the recent price hikes. When I get into a taxi they politely raise the issue of petrol being expensive, probably to warn me that the old khawagat [foreigners'] fares have gone up. When [...]
I received this message from my friend Atle in Cairo… Not surprisingly it is the taxi drivers that are really pissed off with the recent price hikes. When I get into a taxi they politely raise the issue of petrol being expensive, probably to warn me that the old khawagat [foreigners'] fares have gone up. When [...]
Beirut paralysed by labor strike
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 18:18 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Beirut brought to a complete halt, amid street clashes… Carole has some pix on her flickr account…
Beirut brought to a complete halt, amid street clashes… Carole has some pix on her flickr account…
Britain, Turkey: May Day Protests
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 23:44 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Thousands demonstrated in Britain on May Day… In Turkey, Istanbul was a scene of riots and clashes with the pigs… I received this message from Comrade Cigdem Cidamli on May 2… dear hossam I could not write you yesterday because of too much tear gas and other events but you can read what happened yesterday from the [...]
Thousands demonstrated in Britain on May Day… In Turkey, Istanbul was a scene of riots and clashes with the pigs… I received this message from Comrade Cigdem Cidamli on May 2… dear hossam I could not write you yesterday because of too much tear gas and other events but you can read what happened yesterday from the [...]
Rising food prices hurting Guatemala’s poor
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 23:29 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Guatemala…
Guatemala…
Jordan & Lebanon: Support the Strikers! فلنتضامن مع الإضرابات بالأردن ولبنان
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 23:10 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Our working class brothers and sisters are striking in Jordan and Lebanon over work and living conditions… Spread the word ya shabab to raise solidarity, and I hope the bloggers in those two countries will supply us with more info, photos and videos of the industrial action…
Our working class brothers and sisters are striking in Jordan and Lebanon over work and living conditions… Spread the word ya shabab to raise solidarity, and I hope the bloggers in those two countries will supply us with more info, photos and videos of the industrial action…
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 [...]
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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