Click on the poster below to read a transcript of a workshop on the strike movement in Egypt that took place at the sixth Cairo antiwar conference, held March 27–30, 2008. The first two presentations were delivered by Egyptian socialists active in the strike movement, and the final presentation was given by a strike leader [...]

Comrade Simon Assaf reports from Beirut on last week’s clashes between the pro-US Lebanese government and the resistance forces led by Hizbollah… Click on the poster below to read the full report…

Here’s a translation by Comrade David of a question that has been put down in the European Parliament by Raül Romeva, a Catalan Euro MP, and member of the European Green group. He placed it in Spanish, but it hasn’t appeared yet on the EU web site in any language..
On the social protests in Egypt
In [...]

I had seven heart attacks from laughter watching and reading this…

Also make sure to check out this previous one I posted…

Via Lenin’s Tomb…
Speculators feast on soaring commodities prices
By Tony Jackson, Financial Times
Sunday May 11 2008 11:50
In times of famine, Vladimir Ilych Lenin took a robust line on speculation. “We can’t expect to get anywhere,” he told the Petrograd Soviet in 1918, “unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot”.
Rather strong, perhaps, [...]

The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…

Click on the poster below to read a posting by Comrade Richard…

Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…

From the Daily News Egypt…
CAPMAS announced Thursday that urban inflation in Egypt rose to a new three-year high of 16.4 percent in the year to April, up from 14.4 percent in the year to March.
Abu Bakr El-Guindi, head of the state statistics agency, told reporters in a news conference that inflation was driven mainly by [...]

From Reuters…
Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday.
The move comes as Egypt tries to combat a wave of public discontent over rising prices and low wages that [...]

High car license fees impact poor more than rich, amid fears of growing discontent…

Journalists are calling for a demonstrations tomorrow Thursday 6pm, in front of the Press Syndicate to denounce the price hikes decreed by the US-backed dictator Mubarak…

Click below to watch some photos taken by Nasser Nouri of gas stations in the Cairo neighborhoods of Hadayeq el-Qobba, where Nasser lives, and Ghamra…

Plainclothes police agents were deployed close to the gas stations, Nasser told me, fearing protests or clashes with angry drivers… According to virtually everyone I speak with in the capital, the [...]