Egypt’s civil servants and the struggle for free unions الموظّفون المصريّون: من النضال المطلبي إلى تحرير النقابات
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-08-21 22:31 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Make sure you check out Mostafa Bassiouni’s article in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, on the fight of the Egyptian civil servants for free unions… A booklet on the Egyptian labor movement, coauthored by Mostafa and Omar Said, is available in English here…
Make sure you check out Mostafa Bassiouni’s article in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, on the fight of the Egyptian civil servants for free unions… A booklet on the Egyptian labor movement, coauthored by Mostafa and Omar Said, is available in English here…
“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 [...]
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 [...]
El-Minya Portraits بورتريهات من المنيا
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-08-20 09:18 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Tax Striker Islam (L) at his family house in el-Minya, with a relative and a colleague…
Tax Striker Islam (L) at his family house in el-Minya, with a relative and a colleague…
Ad-Dustour الدستور
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-08-11 20:30 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The frontpage of the liberal daily Ad-Dustour carries news on the solidarity protest held in London against the Mahalla 49 trial…
The frontpage of the liberal daily Ad-Dustour carries news on the solidarity protest held in London against the Mahalla 49 trial…
Trip to Tanta: The Mahalla 49 Trial
3arabawy - Sun, 2008-08-10 19:32 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I traveled to Tanta on Saturday morning to try to attend the Mahalla 49 trial.. As soon as I arrived in the city’s train station, I was shocked by the heavy security presence around Tanta’s Court which is literally few steps away from the station. At least four police trucks full of soldiers were parked [...]
I traveled to Tanta on Saturday morning to try to attend the Mahalla 49 trial.. As soon as I arrived in the city’s train station, I was shocked by the heavy security presence around Tanta’s Court which is literally few steps away from the station. At least four police trucks full of soldiers were parked [...]
Trip to Minya: Wedding of a Tax Striker عريس الضرائب العقارية
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-08-09 01:00 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I was invited on Thursday, together with other socialists, to a wedding of one of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike heroes, Islam Mohamed, in the town of el-’Edwa, located in the Upper Egyptian province of el-Minya. Islam’s original wedding date had been 3 December 2007, the same day 55,000 Real Estate Tax Collectors escalated [...]
I was invited on Thursday, together with other socialists, to a wedding of one of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike heroes, Islam Mohamed, in the town of el-’Edwa, located in the Upper Egyptian province of el-Minya. Islam’s original wedding date had been 3 December 2007, the same day 55,000 Real Estate Tax Collectors escalated [...]
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