[Nightwish: Phantom of the Opera]

One of the films I watched back in California, and was very touched by, is one made by a Japanese visiting scholar, Masako Sakata, on the devestating effect of Agent Orange, used widely by the US forces in Vietnam during the war. In the case of Masako, the movie was literally a personal requiem as [...]

Around 250 workers (out of a total force 450) from Efco Food Industries are continuing their sit-in which they started two days, in Suez, demanding:
1-Their annual shares of profits which they haven’t received from 1999, the year the company was founded
2-Food allowance or a meal, as the workers are given neither
3-Health insurance, especially as industrial [...]

Click on the pic below to read Mostafa Bassiouni’s latest article in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, on the current workers movement and the fight for independent labor unions…

[Mostafa during Socialist Days 2007, Cairo's Press Syndicate. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

On Dec 29, we shall finally get the verdict in Judge Mourad’s lawsuit against the govt, demanding the banning of 51 websites and blogs including mine, under the claim that they are harmful to national security and insulting to the president…
The Arabic network for human rights information and Hisham Mubarak Law Center, two human [...]

From Reuters…
Six water brands found unsafe in Egypt govt study
CAIRO, Dec 26 - Egypt’s Consumer Protection Agency found six locally produced brands of bottled water, including Schweppes, unfit for human consumption, agency chairman Said el-Alfy said on Wednesday.
Alfy said at a news conference that a study financed by his one-year-old agency and conducted over two [...]

The meeting that was due to take place on either 23 or 24 December between the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike leaders and the Finance Minister was postponed to tomorrow Thursday. Moreover, despite pledging no witch-hunt against the strikers would take place, Ismail Abdel Rasoul, the corrupt head of the Real Estate Tax Collection Authorities [...]

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below…

Inspired by the victory of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strikers, the Labor Ministry’s Giza civil servants are starting a campaign to improve their work conditions… Click on the poster below for more details…

A flickr group has been set up to host photos of the coming 6th Cairo Anti-War Conference, due to take place next March. Till then, the conference organizers are calling on activists who have any photos of the previous conferences to go ahead and upload them to the flickr group, as part of an effort [...]

Al-Jazeera’s program on the Iraqi resistance against US occupation troops…

Socialist Journalist Ibrahim el-Sahary…