“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Reform is useless.. We need radical change”
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-08-21 05:40 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I traveled to Mansoura on Wednesday to attend a meeting of some of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike leaders, who came largely from Daqahliya and the Nile Delta provinces, to discuss the fight to build their independent trade union… I’ll post some notes and impressions of the meeting later, but for now, I want [...]
I traveled to Mansoura on Wednesday to attend a meeting of some of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike leaders, who came largely from Daqahliya and the Nile Delta provinces, to discuss the fight to build their independent trade union… I’ll post some notes and impressions of the meeting later, but for now, I want [...]
Strikes shut down Scotland
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-08-21 05:39 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Socialist Worker reports…
Socialist Worker reports…
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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