From Ikhwan Web…
The number of students referred to disciplinary boards at Cairo University rose 90 students only one week after classes started. 26 students were referred to a disciplinary board in the first week. The total number makes Cairo University- so far- leading all Egyptian universities, presaging a possibly volatile semester as reports emerged [...]

A good feature by AP journalist and friend Paul Schemm…
Workers banged drums at a sit-in rally and waved pay stubs for wages as low as US$40 a month amid soaring inflation, shouting that they cannot feed their children. Women workers rattled off the increasing prices they pay in their daily shopping.
The government rushed Saturday [...]

Click on the poster below to read the English translation of the Workers’ Coordination Committee’s statement issued on Saturday, with the news about the Ghazl el-Mahalla strikers’ victory… (Thanks Heba)

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I was on the phone earlier with a Socialist activist who was involved in the Mahalla strike… He asserted the mood was euphoric among the workers following the victory they achieved, and there’s a general sense of empowerment among them…
And, “this is just the beginning,” he said. “The other textile workers in Kafr el-Dawwar and [...]

Al-Masry Al-Youm reports on the solidarity the Mahalla strikers received from the Italian trade unionists… Click on the poster below to read the details…

The extent of fear felt by the Mubarak’s regime vis a vis the Mahalla strikers was astounding… Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting that on Thursday, following the failure of negotiations with the NDP delegation, the Interior Ministry mobilized its Central Security Forces troops from FIVE PROVINCES neighboring Mahalla, and deployed them in the town…

MERIP has an excellent article by Joel Beinin on the latest Ghazl el-Mahalla strike. Click on Joel’s picture below to read it…

[Above: Joel Beinin and Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader Mohamed el-Attar, at the CTUWS office in Mahalla. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, taken 9 March 2007.]

AP journalist and friend Paul Schemm sent me some of the pix he took in Mahalla on Friday, the last day of the strike…

(Thanks Paul)

Journalist and friend Jano Charbel sent me some more pix he took in Ghazl el-Mahalla…

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