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Egypt is ablaze with conspiracy theories

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-08-28 22:02 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Make sure you check out Jack’s new article in the Guardian’s Comment is Free… I’m very pleased there was a mention of the tax collectors’ fight. The collectors’ strike last year and their current struggle to build Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century are under-reported in the international press despite the story’s [...]

“There is a different, more radical, mood in the country”

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-08-22 15:40 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Leftist activist and engineer Hamdi Qenawi attended the Mansoura Tax Collectors‘ meeting… There is a different, more radical, mood in the country today. Fear (from the regime) is much less than what it used to be. The movement for change has brought down barriers… We need to unite the movement, and do not fragment it along [...]

“Strikes are the only means to get our rights”

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-08-21 22:24 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Salah Abdel Salam, Daqahliya Tax Collector… All union presidents work for State Security. And all State Security (officers) serve only the regime… Egypt has turned from a welfare state to a savage capitalist state… Strikes are the only means to get our rights, as we saw in the Real Estate (Tax Collectors’ strike), Mahalla, Mansoura-España and [...]

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