A Call to Blogo-Arms نداء إلى المدونين الاشتراكيين الثوريين at 3arabawy

A Call to Blogo-Arms نداء إلى المدونين الاشتراكيين الثوريين

Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy February 26th, 2008 in Activism, Bloggers, Labor عمال, Left يسار, Media

I’m compiling a list of revolutionary socialist bloggers who are affiliated with the International Socialist Tendency groups… If you are one of them, please email me on egyptian[dot]bolshevik[at]gmail[dot]com … Get in touch, we need to start networking more… for workers’ power and international socialism…

UPDATE: Again, I’d like to thank all the comrades who got in touch, and I look forward to hearing from more of you. I’m posting below a list of some of the blog links I received up till now, and will be adding more links soon (apologies to the comrades who sent me links that I still haven’t posted.. will be doing that soon). I’ll also be adding you to my blogroll on the right side bar, and I hope you’ll be doing the same. I’d like to also thank Comrade Lenin of the Tomb, the pioneering SWP blogger, for his help in spreading the word…
Few things:
1- I replied back to everyone who emailed me. If you don’t find my message, please take time to browse your “junk folder,” as sometimes messages with signatures that have hyperlinks are mistaken as a spam advertisement. If you don’t hear back from me in a couple of days, then this means my message never arrived in the first place, and that has happened on several occasions before in my correspondence… so if there’s no response in 48 hours, then kindly just leave a comment on the blog here to alert me to it.
2-It doesn’t matter if you haven’t updated your blog in a while, or if your blog was under construction… and it doesn’t matter which language you blog in… Still, get in touch…
3-When you browse the internet, you find some amazing garbage by leftist activists who think that the struggle is happening in the cyberspace; hence you find terms popping up like “cyber-leninism,” “cyber-revolution,” “bloggers’ power” (oh, how that reminds me of what one reads about May 1968 stupid “students’ power” slogan), etc… We are revolutionary socialists. We believe in Workers’ Power. Capitalism will not be overthrown by blogging against it.. Capitalism will be overthrown when the working class takes control of the production process in their factories, land and workplaces. Blogs will NEVER substitute, contrary to what some may think (or dream), the centrality of the revolutionary newspaper as a organ, as a scaffold around which we build our organizations and parties. There are no, and will not be at any point, this so called “online revolution.” But revolutionary socialists have to be up to date in using technology that the cyberage has provided. In 1917, when one soviet wanted to contact another, they’d send a messenger on a horse. News from the front used to arrive days, if not months, late, and trickled slowly to other countries. Now we have emails, mobile phones, etc.. via which we can contact one another. (And let’s remember the role played by Egyptian bloggers in mobilizing local and international solidarity with the Mahalla strikers last September.) The internet is only a medium and a tool by which we can support our “offline” activities. Our strength will always stem from the fact that we’ll have one foot in the cyberspace, and, more importantly, the other foot will be on the ground.
As soon as we compile a good number of contact info and links, a mailing group will be set up for the IST bloggers via which we can be in constant touch, exchange ideas and experiences, as well as discuss strategy and tactics to help launch campaigns and see how can we help our groups in their propaganda and agitation activities on the ground…
Shokran once again comrades… It’s always empowering to know there are activists in other continents who fight for the same cause and share the same ideals… The coming months in Egypt, I can assure, will witness more escalation in the industrial action, and the US-backed Mubarak’s terrorist regime’s full crackdown on the labor movement is a matter of time… and your solidarity will probably be needed more than ever before… For Workers’ Power and International Socialism…

UPDATE: Please read this posting on the delicious bookmarks and outgoing email signatures…

UPDATE: Please read this posting on photography and that one…

UPDATE: Kindly check out this posting on Twitter…

THE LENOSPHERE
1- Lenin’s Tomb [Britain]
2- Sursock [Lebanon]
3- Shemali [Lebanon]
4- Through the Scary Door [Britain]
5- The Partisan [Australia]
6- If there’s hope… [Canada]
7- Dissenting Historian [Brazil]
8- RedBedHead [Canada]
9- Diskussionsforum Internationaler Sozialismus [Germany]
10- John Molyneux [Britain]
11- Revolutionary Socialist Watchdog [Greece]
12- Mashahed [Egypt]
13- The Bureau of Counterpropaganda
14- Internasjonal Sosialisme [Norway]
15- The Opposite of Apathy [Britain]
16- Cliffism [Britain]
17- Al-Negm Al-Ahmar (The Red Star) [Egypt]
18- Abo7 [Egypt]
19- Histomat: Adventures in Historical Materialism [Britain]
20- Tollab Moqawma (Resistance Students) [Egypt]
21- Start the Riots [Lebanon]
22- A-Tollab al-Ishtrakiyoun (The Socialist Students) [Egypt]
23- The 19th Brumaire [Britain]
24- Eyes on the War [Greece]
25- Moqawma (Resistance) [Egypt]
26- ‘Ala Esm Masr (In the Name of Egypt) [Egypt]
27- Le poireau ROUGE pour RESISTER à SARKOZY [France]
28- John Mullen à Agen [France]
29- Breaking Free [France]
30- PolEconAnalysis [Canada]
31- Chez Le Piment Rouge [Canada]
32- L’internationaliste [Canada]
33- Khaled el-Sawy’s Blog [Egypt]
34- Left Turn [Britain]
35- General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle [U.S.]
36- ROOIERAVOTR [Netherlands]
37- Jelle’s Weblog [Netherlands]
38- Punainen kampanjablogi [Finland]
39- Anticapitaliste [New Zealand]
40- No Ordinary Sun [Japan]
41- Left Punch
42- Blogging for the hell of it [Britain]
43- Editions Marque Page [France]
44- Yasari Masri (Leftist Egyptian) [Egypt]
45- Complex System of Pipes [Britain]
46- Throw Away Your Telescreen! [Britain]
47- SO-CY(A)CLIST [Greece]
48- Farfahine [Lebanon]
49- Pompey Resistance [Britain]
50- Red Eagles النسور الحمراء [Egypt]
51- Blogging for the Revolution [Greece]
52- Con la Conferencia del Cairo [Spain]
53- The Good Soldier Švejk [Greece]
54- Left Now! [Britain]
55- Solomon’s Mindfield [Britain]
56- كلمة أبرك من عشرة [Egypt]
57- عتبة واحد [Egypt]
58- حنين لبكرة [Egypt]

More soon…

61 Responses to “A Call to Blogo-Arms نداء إلى المدونين الاشتراكيين الثوريين”

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1 Roobin Feb 26th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Present, sir…
2 glenn Feb 26th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

Great music. What is it?
3 Hossam el-Hamalawy Feb 26th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Roobin:
Ahlan Ahlan Comrade.. Honored to meet you.. If you know other IST bloggers, kindly ask them to get in touch too, and send me links to IST blogs you are already familiar with.
…
Glen:
It’s “Navras” by Juno Reactor vs. Don Davis, from the Matrix Revolutions Soundtrack
….
Thanks to all the Comrades who’ve sent emails.. Spread the word.. there’s more of us out there.. Let’s rally the troops..
4 Hossam el-Hamalawy Feb 27th, 2008 at 12:23 am

Thanks for all the Comrades who are sending emails of support and links.. I’m very very touched by your solidarity and honored to get in touch with you… Keep spreading the word shabab…
5 Snowball Mar 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Hossam - this is excellent work - last year I had a go and compiling a list but I included lots of fellow travellers (one or two of which have since stopped ‘fellow travelling’) but your list updates and adds to my earlier effort here
6 blackstone Mar 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Not a supporter of IST, but a supporter of an emancipating working class and self-managed society. I also enjoy your posts on the Egyptian strikes and have reposted them on my blog.

Power to the People
7 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm

Snowball:
Thanks for leaving a comment. You have one hell of a blog! Keep up the great work, and I’ll be adding soon the blog links you have to the list…

Blackstone:
We want the same goal, but we have our differences in strategy. In all cases, welcome comrade to my blog, and I appreciate you re-posting info on the Egyptian working class struggle.. We need to spread the word as much as we can internationally about the industrial action in Egypt… Also, feel free to use my flickr account, coz spreading the image is just as important… [Kindly read the posting below]
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/02/26/photos_flickr/
The Left United, Will Never Be Defeated…
8 dreamessence Mar 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 am

Extremely interesting blog and agenda–I hope you do not mind that I linked you Keep up your efforts.
9 Leftist Egyptian Mar 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 am

هو انا اسمي مكتوب ?
10 Colin F (Saint-Denis) (fellow traveller) Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:59 am

Here in France there are at least three comrade bloggers who identify with the IS tradition, link to IST sites and blogs (including your own) and publish translations of works by Cliff, Hallas, Harman, Callinicos et al, while not actually belonging to the IST in an organisational sense. Two are produced by active members of the LCR, the other by an ex-member, active on the left in Saint-Denis.

To the best of my knowledge there are no blogs produced by members of the IST group in France (which is part of the LCR), though I would be happy to learn of any. Also, they do not have a website. There are no IST groups in Belgium or Switzerland, and I am not aware of any sympathisers who have blogs. The small group in Quebec is not very active on the web. I do not know if any of the Lebanese comrades have blogs in French. I presume there are no such sites in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, French-speaking West Africa or the French overseas departments (again, I would be happy to be pleased wrong).

Therefore, the main source of documents in French supporting the politics of the IST are the following :

Le poireau rouge http://le-poireau-rouge.blogspot.com

John mullen à Agen http://johnmullenagen.blogspot.com/

Les aventures de Tintin (Tintin révolutionnaire) http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/

All these sites also have articles in English.

PS Congratulations on an excellent blog and Vive l’Internationale des bloggeurs !
11 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

dreamessence:
Of course I don’t mind.. Thanks a lot for your feedback..
Leftist Egyptian:
مكانك في الجناح العسكري محفوظ يا زعامة
Colin:
Thanks for getting in touch and for your words of solidarity.. I added the links u posted to the list and to my blogroll..
There are no IST groups in the Maghreb that I’m aware of.. Hopefully that will change soon..
12 ilestre Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

“The IST group in France (which is part of the LCR), though I would be happy to learn of any. Also, they do not have a website.”

They do now : http://quefaire.lautre.net
13 mashahed Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Have u seen this blog b4?
http://segmovement.blogspot.com
14 Colin F (Saint-Denis) (fellow traveller) Mar 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Thanks for the info, ilestre (the French IST group finally has a website). It’s been a long time coming. I’ll link it to my site. I wonder if the comrades will do the same. That’s two sites belonging to or identifying with the IS tradition in France (the other is Socialisme International at http://www.revue-socialisme.org/) in addition to the blogs previously mentioned. Three, actually, as another group has a site called marque page at http://marquepage.over-blog.fr/ Kind of confusing, I suppose. There’s a case here for a merger, as with three of the four IST groups in Australia. Any takers ?
15 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

Thanks Comrades for the links. I added the websites to my blogroll on the right side bar of my blog. I urge you to import those websites, as well as the list of blogs above to your blogs too. It would help a lot in terms of increasing traffic and networking..
Mashahed:
Interesting blog. I didn’t know about before. Do you know who runs it?
16 mashahed Mar 9th, 2008 at 9:56 am

Nope .. !
I have no idea … but i’ll talk to some friends who may know (him\her)
17 mashahed Mar 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am

tadamon blog
“مجموعة دعم النضالات العمالية والاجتماعية في مصر “تضامن
http://www.tadamonmasr.wordpress.com/
18 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 11th, 2008 at 2:23 am

I already have the Tadamon blog listed on my blogroll. It’s a great blog, but I’m not including it in this list, coz it’s a united front that includes other non-socialist forces.
19 Doug Mar 11th, 2008 at 5:54 am

Here are two more IS blogs from Canada - and the first two also from Quebec:
Internationaliste http://internationaliste.blogue.ca/
Le Piment Rouge http://lepimentrouge.blogspot.com/
PolEconAnalysis http://www.poleconanalysis.org/
20 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 11th, 2008 at 6:22 am

Thanks Doug.. Just added them to the list..
21 Snowball Mar 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Keep up the good work yourself Hossam!

There are a couple more British blogs you might add:

Left Turn - http://www.keithshilson.blogspot.com/

and ‘Blogging for the hell of it’ http://rosacassells.blogspot.com/

though I am not 100 percent sure if the latter blogger is a member of the IST or not - I think so but perhaps wait on that one until further info…
22 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 12th, 2008 at 12:05 am

Cheers Snowball.. I added Keith to the list.. If you can contact the other comrade and find out if she’s with the IST or not, that would be great..
Thanks again for all your help, Keep up the quality blogging…
23 Frans-Arne Stylegar Mar 12th, 2008 at 1:17 am

Here are some more:

http://generalyourtankisapowerfulvehicle.blogspot.com/

Two Dutch ones:
http://rooieravotr.blogspot.com/
http://www.jelleschuurman.nl/weblog/

A Finnish one:
http://kampanja.blogspot.com/

And one from New Zealand:
http://anticapitaliste.blogspot.com/
24 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 12th, 2008 at 9:10 am

Excellent work comrade..! I’ve just added them now..
25 sherif talal Mar 12th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

http://www.e3lamm.blogspot.com
أشتراكى حتى النخاع من مصر
26 Rosa Cassells Mar 13th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Hiya Hossam, I’d be happy for my blog to be added to the list - cheers.

http://rosacassells.blogspot.com/
27 Frans-Arne Stylegar Mar 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Two more:
http://noordinarysun.blogspot.com/
http://leftpunch.blogspot.com/
28 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 13th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

Sherif:
القائمة بتضم فقط المدونات التابعى للتيار الاشتراكي الثوري ومجموعات الطلاب الاشتراكيين بالجامعات.. أرجو التواصل، والتعرف عليهم في الجامعة الي انت فيها..
Rosa and Frans:
Thanks a lot.. I added the new blogs..
29 Rebellious Arab Girl Mar 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Wow. I really like this blog. I came here from Technorati. Keep up the great work. I am adding this site to my blog roll. A great read!!
30 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 14th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Thanks Mona for your support and for adding me to your blogroll… Can you also do me a favor and circulate my blog’s address among your Arab-Canadian contacts?
Solidarity,
Hoss
31 ForHumanRights Mar 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

As an American born citizen I am sad and ashamed that my goverment provides assistance to any country who has a terrorist dictatorship regime. I extend my apology while doing my part to ensure that my goverment knows my stand.

In Solidary
32 Renegade Eye Mar 18th, 2008 at 8:11 am

My blog is affiliated with the International Marxist Tendency. I welcome you to comment, and I’m agreeable to trade links.
33 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 18th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

ForHumanRights:
Always good to hear from you. You are an active reader of both the arabist and 3arabawy, and I enjoy following your comments. There’s nothing for you to apologize for, since these are the actions of the US govt not people.. You can channel your feelings of anger into something productive that can help the movement in Egypt..
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/11/07/what-can-you-do-to-help/
Renegade Eye:
Welcome to my blog Comrade. I added your website to the Blogroll on the right side bar of my blog.. Solidarity,
34 كريم البحيرى Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

انا معاك يازعامة اشتراكى حتى القاع والنخاع والبتنجان والكلى والمواسير واى حاجة وخاصة الزيت والسكر والعيش انت عارف انهمم انقرضوا فى الاسواق
http://egyworkers.blogspot.com/
35 che_wildwing Mar 20th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

سجل
أنا اشتراكي
مجهود رائع يازميل
http://kelmawildwing.blogspot.com/
36 Paul Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

http://prisonerofstarvation.blogspot.com/
37 Renegade Eye Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am

I added your blog to my blogroll.

For some reason I can’t find my link at your blog.
38 Stylegar Mar 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Probably this one, as well, as long as we are dealing with the US comrades:
http://gotredonyou.blogspot.com/
39 Doug Mar 21st, 2008 at 8:15 pm

Hi comrade,
It might be helpful to show the country in which the blog is being written. It would highlight how international the IST is.
40 Renegade Eye Mar 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 am

Thank you for the link.

I first heard of your blog, when my comrades quoted it, on an article at http://www.Marxist.com about your county.

Regards
41 Stylegar Mar 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 am

http://complexsystemofpipes.wordpress.com/
42 Hossam el-Hamalawy Mar 23rd, 2008 at 11:02 am

Thanks Comrades for all the new links.. I’m late with updating the list, which I’ll do in a couple of days.. Meanwhile, keep sending whatever links you find..
Doug:
Good idea.. will do that..
Renegade Eye:
Welcome Comrade to my blog. I’m glad you found it useful, and I hope you’ll circulate the info on the Egyptian industrial struggle among your network of contacts..
43 sumon mohan mitra Mar 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 pm

Dear,

comrade i send you my blog adeeress

1.sumonmaitra.blogspot.com
2.http://communistnews.blogspot.com/
for any advice please send me eng.nibir@gmail.com
with
solidarity
sumon mohan maitra
44 Dave (The Void) Apr 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Hi Comrades,

This is a great idea, count me in. I’m an active member of the SWP students in Manchester. My blog is http://complexsystemofpipes.wordpress.com and I’m also one of the main contributors to the video blog http://throwawayyourtelescreen.wordpress.com

Cheers

Dave
45 nadim Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

ok comrade
i’m not a socialist revolutionary but i consider my self marxist - leninist can i join the lenosphere?
46 socyaclist Apr 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Yassou comrade
I am in the greek SWP. I tried 2 find u in the Cairo Forum, but…next time!
c u in Cairo
47 Jack Stephens Apr 10th, 2008 at 7:44 am

I sent you this e-mail on April 8th but got no response. Just want to make sure you got it. Here was the content of the message:

I’m a blogger (and postulant for the priesthood) and shop steward for my trade union based in San Francisco who holds a Marxist and Liberation theologist viewpoint. My main blog is The Mustard Seed. My other blogs are The Blog and the Bullet (a radical blog aggregator), Double Consciousness (on white privilege and supremacy), and The Ghost of Tom Joad (my blog on my union activity).

But my main blog for Marxist and my religious ideas is The Mustard Seed, I also cross-post to that blog from my other blogs. To learn more check out the About page which talks about some of my views and my blog.
48 Matt Jones Apr 13th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

Great initiative! I’ll try to keep mine more up to date!
49 MechanicalCrowds Apr 19th, 2008 at 3:03 am

What’s the ideology here? Socialism? Communism????
50 johnnyrook Apr 24th, 2008 at 12:43 am

Please add mine comrade, from UK SWP
51 مصطفى محمود May 20th, 2008 at 3:04 am

سجل يا كومرااااااااااااااد
52 steve brown May 22nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Hi - I know too many blogs not enough time but if you want something leftfield to read - you could do worse: http://redexileleague.blogspot.com/

Keep ur spirits up things might go our way
53 Marxista desde España Jun 7th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

From Spain:

“Marxista desde España” (Marxist from Spain)
url: http://espanaroja.blogia.com/
54 noni Jul 10th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

yes…solidarity..struggle… .and unity…is the key.

tag you to my blog
55 انجلز Jul 12th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

انا اسمى مكتوب
56 Socialist Aotearoa Aug 17th, 2008 at 6:14 am

Socialist Aotearoa is a revolutionary, anti capitalist group in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Supporters of the International Socialist Tendency are amongst its members.

Five fingers for a Fist- the founding principles of Socialist Aotearoa
(or Four fingers and a rule of thumb!)
http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2008/05/fivve-fingers-for-fist-founding.html

1. One Solution, Revolution!

Socialist Aotearoa is a revolutionary, socialist, anti capitalist group. We believe in socialism from below, system change not climate change, and Rosa Luxemburg’s maxim that “Revolutionaries are those who fight the hardest for reforms in the here and now!”.

2. Workers of the World, Unite.

Socialist Aotearoa is an international socialist group. We oppose all imperialist wars and occupations, and support all genuine national liberation struggles for independence. We demand the immediate withdrawal of New Zealand colonial troops from Afghanistan and the Pacific. We support the struggle for Tino Rangatiratanga and self determination for Maori in Aotearoa, fully aware of the bloody history of the New Zealand state’s past and the dispossession of Maori today. We welcome refugees and immigrants to Aotearoa, and fight against racism wherever we find it.

3. Equality for all.

We oppose all oppressions based on race, gender, sexuality and religion.

4. United Fronts

Socialist Aotearoa will co-operate with other left wing parties, unions and movements, but maintain its organisational independence and state it’s politics honestly and openly. We will work in United Fronts, but reserve the right to publish and contribute our own socialist ideas within them.

5. For a Rank and File network within the Trade Union movement.

The working class movement is the force we believe will change the world. As demonstrated by countless general strikes and revolutions throughout the decades, it has the power to shut down the system and replace it with a better world based on sharing and direct democracy. As such, Socialist Aotearoa members are active in our unions as volunteers, members, delegates and organisers.

We are with the Union leaders when they fight, but believe that union bureaucracy acts as a negotiating layer between the workers and the bosses. IN order to counteract the influence of the Labour Party’s union bosses , rank and file union members and delegates must organise a cross-union, cross-industry network of solidarity and struggle.

ratified by the Socialist Aotearoa Foundation Hui,
May 10th 2008
57 مصطفى محمود Aug 29th, 2008 at 1:27 am

لنكات المدونات الجديدة اهى يا كومراد

http://kelmawildwing.blogspot.com/

http://watchmasr2008.blogspot.com/

http://haneen-lbokra.blogspot.com/

http://red-eagles.blogspot.com/

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