[An independent performer dancing in front of the Ashby Bart Station, during Sunday's flea market. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

The pro-US dictator continues his crackdown on the opposition and independent press….
Reporters Without Borders today condemned a sentence of one-month’s forced labour imposed on editor of al-Wafd, Anwar Al-Hawari and Younes Darwish, the daily’s correspondent in Assyout, 380 kms south of Cairo, for “publishing false news” about fraud by two members of the ruling [...]

A new report by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch documents 21 labor protests during the first two weeks of October, in 20 locations.
7000 workers took part in strikes, protests and/or sit-ins, while 70,000 threatened to launch an industrial action…
Half of the protests (10 protests) occurred in the textile sector, following the victory [...]

British Socialist John Rose speaking in Vienna…

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I uploaded more pix of the San Fransisco antiwar rally and march that took place on Saturday. You can check out the set by clicking on the photo below…

[Antiwar protester carrying the Palestinian flag, during a march from Civic Center to Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Students from the Campus Antiwar Network marching from San Francisco's Civic Center to Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Antiwar demonstrators marching from San Francisco's Civic Center to Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Palestinian-American youth taking part in the San Francisco antiwar rally at Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[The same group of Palestinian-American teenagers, earlier in the march, exchanging shouts with the Israeli flag-waving pro-war protesters at Civic Center. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[A masked antiwar demonstrator, during the march from Civic Center to Dolores Park, wearing a hood written on it "Anti-Imperialista." Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Police troops deploying near Civic Center; on the left, a tiny pro-war crowd waving the Israeli flag. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Police watching as antiwar protesters march from Civic Center to Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Antiwar activists on the march from San Francisco's Civic to Dolores Park. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

[Al-Juthoor (Roots) Palestinian dabkeh troupe performing at Dolores Park. The group, in the words of one of its members, works "to preserve and present Palestinian culture while reminding the world of the injustice occurring in Palestine and supporting the struggle [...]