With human shields, the urban poor in Alexandria are protecting their homes from govt demolition…

From the Daily News Egypt…
An Egyptian court is reviewing a petition by a group of lawyers to halt Egypt’s natural gas exports to Israel, one of the attorneys said Monday.
Lawyer Ibrahim Yousri said the petitioners want to stop the deal because it involves below market gas prices of only $1.5 per British thermal unit, a [...]

The US Socialist Worker reports on preparations for a possible strike by the second-largest teachers union in America

Amy Goodman and two Democracy Now! producers detained at the Republican National Convention…

The following two statements were distributed by the teachers during their protest last Saturday…

Few things I found interesting in the statements as well as the protest included:
1- The teachers were very critical of the Ministry of the Eduation and the regime in general, but also linked the malaise to the US pressures on the ME [...]

Nasser Nouri, Egypt’s leading photographer who documented the Ghazl el-Mahalla December 2006 strike that triggered the Winter of Labor Discontent, and the April 2008 Mahalla Uprising…

Sayyed el-Badri, Alexandrian school teacher and activist with Teachers’ Voice…

Na’eem Ramadan, a school teacher and an activist from the Nile Delta northern town of Dessouq…

Omar Morsi, activist school teacher from [...]

Comrade Gaber wrote a posting about the role of bloggers in the Kafr Elw housing campaign…

Tony Cliff on building the revolutionary workers’ party…

Make sure you check out Parts I and II…

Nora emailed me some Peruvian anti-Imperialist and anti-Zionist cartoons… Click on the cartoon below to view more…

Kareem el-Beheiri has some pix of the Mahalla detainees and their families on his flickr…

Jack sent me a link to a website for this interesting film Soldiers of Conscious, on U.S. soldiers who refuse to occupy Iraq… Check out the trailer…