They scored a victory…

I received some pix, taken by Ad-Dustour’s Rehab el-Sayyed, of the sit in staged by 200 textile workers in Suez protesting the sacking of 12 workers…

Here’s also a previous posting on the factory…

Demonstrations in London…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Local press reports allege that Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has twice disqualified journalist and poet Farouk Goweida from nomination for membership of the Supreme Council for Culture over the past three months in retaliation for a series of articles critical of the government.
The article series titled “The Land Mafia,” which were [...]

Via Adventures in Historical Materialism… Click on the poster below…

Click below to watch Mark Fiore’s latest animation…

Mohamed Maree and Mosa’ad Abul Fagr suspended their hungerstrike yesterday in Bourg el-Arab Prison, coming under pressures from State Security police…

America’s future Zionist Pimp-In-Chief…

Bolsheviks…

Click below to download the latest issue from L’Ishtraki (The Socialist), the voice of Egypt’s revolutionary left…

Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and faced with an escalating witch-hunt campaign and purges by Sadat’s regime against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communists and radical nationalists left the country and sought refuge in Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait (yeah, believe it or not, Kuwait received tons [...]

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read an article…

Another pic from the Family Album…

My dad, standing to the left, with his youngest brother Mostafa, in Port Said, August 1965. Mostafa was to take photography professionally from the beginning of the 1980s, and opened with the help of my dad “Studio el-Hamalawy” in Tanta. Mostafa passed away in 2006…

The Winter 2007 issue of Awraq Ishtrakiya is available online in a PDF format, divided into four files, here, here, here and there…
The Spring 2008 issue is also available in a PDF format… Click below to download it…