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Rockeras Sin Fronteras

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-09-03 06:09 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Check out this blog, run by some of my dear friends in the Bay Area…

Lenin & The Party: Part III

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-09-02 03:01 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Tony Cliff on building the revolutionary workers’ party… Make sure you check out Parts I and II…

“If we don’t build the union, our gains will be taken away. We still have more rights to win”

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-09-01 05:23 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Kamal Abu Eita, addressing other members of the Higher Committee for the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike who convened in Cairo on Saturday, to carry on their fight to build what will be Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century…

Building the Union موظفو الضرائب العقارية يواصلون نضالهم من أجل بناء نقابتهم المستقلة

3arabawy - Sun, 2008-08-31 03:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Members of the Higher Committee for the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike convened in Cairo on Saturday, to carry on their fight to build what will be Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century… The meeting included over 20 northern and southern provincial delegates, many of whom were from the central figures in the [...]

On the Soviets and the Party in a Proletarian Revolution

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-08-29 19:32 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Leon Trotsky, The Lessons of October, Chapter 8… Without a party, apart from a party, over the head of a party, or with a substitute for a party, the proletarian revolution cannot conquer. That is the principal lesson of the past decade. It is true that the English trade unions may become a mighty lever of [...]

“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 [...]

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…

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