Tomorrow Wednesday, 7pm, a forum is organized by the Press Syndicate Liberties Committee in solidarity with trade unionists from El-Amiriya Textile Factory, El-Hennawy Tobacco Company and others… For more details, click on the poster below…

For the latest updates on the Alexandrian textile strike and protests by civil servants, keep an eye on Tadamon…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Members of the Doctors’ Syndicate along with the Doctors Without Rights movement organized a protest in front of the syndicate Sunday, demanding an increase in doctors’ salaries.
Protestors led by Essam El-Erian, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood group, threatened that doctors will go on strike if their demands were not [...]

Marxism 2008 Final Rally…

Mohamed Maree speaks to Sarah Carr about his ordeal…
Mohamed Salah Marei is a 23-year-old student in his fourth year of veterinary science at Mansoura University who doesn’t really want to be a vet.
“I wanted to study political science, but my father was determined that there should be at least one person in the family able [...]

Comrade Gaber is calling graphic designers to arms…

Comrade Bassem speaking at Marxism 2008…

From Reuters…
Police detained 17 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday in northern Egypt where the Islamist group was fielding candidates for three vacant parliamentary seats, security officials said.
The Brotherhood, the strongest opposition group in the Arab country despite the ban, said police forces were blocking its campaign staff and supporters from voting in [...]

Marxism 2008 Opening Rally…

A CALL FOR SOLIDARITY…
The US-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak is prosecuting 49 Egyptians in the Emergency High State Security Criminal Court. It is accusing them of involvement in the recent two day uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla.
Egyptian security forces occupied Ghazl el-Mahalla, the biggest textile mill in the Middle East with 27,000 [...]

The Alexandrian textile strikers issued two statements, which you can find here and here…

Comrade John Molyneux has an article on Marxism and Religion in the new ISJ issue… Circulate the article ya shabab, coz it’s time to reclaim the true Bolshevik tradition regarding religion from the Stalinist fucks…
For more information on Marxism and religion, make sure you also check out this article on The Bolsheviks and Islam, [...]

Sarah Carr reports…
Some 100 workers from the Strow Misr company and their children gathered on Sunday in Dokki, Cairo, protesting the failure of the company’s management to pay them for over 15 months.
The protest was held outside the office of former Egyptian Prime Minister and Strow Misr executive director, Ali Lotfy, to coincide with a [...]

From Socialist Worker…
Hundreds of thousands of workers are gearing up to take on Gordon Brown’s pay curbs.
Up to 650,000 local government workers in the Unison and Unite unions are to take two days of strike action on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Teaching assistants, school cleaners and cooks, social workers, librarians, refuse workers, sports centre [...]

Michaela Singer reports…
Standing on the steps of the Journalists’ Syndicate, press and activists — led by the Head of the Freedom Committee Mohamed Abdel Qoddous — voiced Monday their support for Al-Fajr journalist Kamal Murad, who was assaulted and arrested by police last month.
Activists leading the demonstration called for the cessation of police attacks on [...]

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to watch the US pigs in action…

Marxism 2008’s Final Rally took place yesterday… There is nothing that can describe the euphoria when one knows that his or her struggle is part of a bigger global fight for a better world… For days I listened to comrades from around the globe debating ideas, sharing experiences, discussing strategy and tactics… It was very [...]

Tadamon reports that three hundred River Transportation Company workers, who had accepted early buyouts, are staging a sit-in at the Ma’adi Cornish, protesting the pathetic sums of money they were paid and which couldn’t help them cope with the skyrocketing prices… And click on the pic below to read a report on the a protest [...]