It is happening…
In what could be the biggest challenge to the state-controlled General Federation of Trade Unions since its foundation in 1957, a delegation of 100 workers from Ghazl el-Mahalla Textile factory will show up on the door step of the General Union of Textile Workers in Cairo (located 327 Shoubra - Mazzallat St.) on [...]

From AP…
Gunfire broke out Thursday between police and protesters opposed to construction of a cell phone tower south of Giza, and one man was killed and 20 people were wounded, authorities said.
Several thousand residents of Kafr Turk, a town about 19 miles south of Cairo’s twin city of Giza, had gathered to protest an attempt [...]

يمكنكم تتزيل العدد الأخير من جريدة “الإشـتـراكي” بالمجان بالضغط على الصورة أدناه

The new issue of Al-Ishtraki, The Socialist, is now available online. Click on the pic above to go and download it for free in a PDF format. Print copies are available at the Center for Socialist Studies: 7 Mourad Street, Giza.

Around 50 demonstrators “celebrated” Egyptian Police Day at the Press Syndicate this afternoon, protesting the systematic torture practiced by General Habib el-Adly’s Interior Ministry.

[Above: Photo I took of Kefaya activist Hamdi Kenawi during today's protest]
I’ll post more later…
UPDATE: I uploaded some pix I took of the protest to my flickr account…

And click on the photo [...]

Fellow Egyptians, if you show up for a demo in the future, and you find the Gestapo standing far away without intervening in the protest, but suddenly you feel you are on fire for some reason, then this will mean that the Egyptian Gestapo has bought this weapon from the Americans…

The Judges’ Club has announced it will be launching a campaign against Mubarak’s proposed constitutional ammendments, and in specific: a) Mubarak’s proposal to change Article 88 of the constitution that enforces judicial supervision over elections; b) the proposed counterterrorism law which is to replace the Emergency Law Egypt has lived under since the start of [...]

Egyptian writer Mahmoud el-Kordousy sent a letter to Mubarak, pulished in today’s Al-Masry Al-Youm, where he hilariously mocked Mubarak’s quarter of a century’s reign, and asked the President: “Aren’t you bored yet from ruling Egypt?”
Click on the cartoon below to read the (Arabic) letter…

Tens of Ma’adi garbage collectors demonstrated in front of Cairo’s Cleaning Authorities in Abassiya Square on Monday demanding their fees from the private company “Europe 2000,” which runs the garbage collection and street cleaning operation’s in Cairo’s southern upscale neigborhood. The workers told Al-Masry Al-Youm that they have not been paid since since 2004, and [...]

Chris Harman reflects on Chavez’s recent swing to the left. Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read the report…

A big slap on Bush’s face…
A US Senate committee has rejected President Bush’s plan to send extra troops to Iraq, passing the measure to the full Senate for a vote next week.
The Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee dismissed Mr Bush’s policy as “not in the national interest” in a 12-9 vote.
Click on the Latuff’s cartoon [...]