Marxism 2008 opened yesterday… I was honored to share platform with leading IST comrades from Britain, Zimbabwe and Ireland…

The first event in the conference saw Comrade Simon giving a great presentation on Palestine and the central role to be played by the Egyptian working class in smashing the Zionist state…

The full time table could be found here… Comrade Farah has some pix from the event on her flickr account…

I’m very short of time ya shabab, so I won’t be blogging regularly in these coming days… But I just wanna say I’m overwhelmed by the interest in Mahalla by virtually everyone I meet… The town is mentioned in literally every conversation I have with any one, and in any public talk about the ME…