The Vulcan Factory Red Guards in Petrograd, following the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

From Socialist Worker…
Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain are fighting for decent pay, and bus workers in London are set to join them. Workers have resoundingly kicked out pay offers at most of the major bus companies.
This raises the prospect of London-wide strikes taking place on the buses for the first time in many [...]

Some more pix from Marxism 2008…

Comrade Simon stressing the central role to be played by the Egyptian working class in smashing the Zionist State…

Ilan Pappé exposing Zionist myths and war crimes…

Testimony from a labor organizer, involved in Mahalla’s 6 April Uprising…
The factory floor in the days preceding the 6th of April was a battleground between the Textile Workers’ League activists who were agitating for the strike on the one hand, and the security and Attar’s group on the other. Every day, in the week before [...]

Bahgat, Ma’adi Corniche, Cairo…

Videos of the Boroloss Intifada via Zeinobia…

Click on the photo below to read an interview with Alaa by Sarah Carr on internet activism in Egypt and the govt crackdowns…

[Above: Photo I took of Alaa, during Bloggers and Rights Lawyers Against Torture meeting, 2007]

The Golden Gate Park, San Francisco…

Les Miserables…

Sarah Carr reports…
In its annual report, issued yesterday, Amnesty International says that the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) remains “dire”.
The report says that over 550 military checkpoints, illegally-constructed settlements and the large swathes of land seized in order to construct the 700 km separation wall have deprived Palestinians of “their source [...]

Bobby, a senior citizen who grew up in Oakland, now lives in San Fransisco where he’s active with Planning for Elders. He had attended my Mahalla talk last month, and when I saw him yesterday he asked me about updates on the detainees… “I wish them all the luck,” he said. “They are our brothers [...]

The Syrian regime has sentenced blogger Tariq Biassi to three years in prison, for “weakening the nationalist sentiment”! Couldn’t the Syrian dictatorship come up with better fabricated charges?
UPDATE: Here’s a posting by Beirut-based Syrian blogger Razan…