The Revolutionary Socialists and 32 other organizations came out with a joint statement denouncing the continued detention of Ghazl el-Mahalla workers.. Click on the poster below to read it…

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 [...]

Chris Bambery looks at the fear that still drives the ruling class to attack the legacy of 1968, while John Molyneux reviews Chris Harman’s The Fire Last Time…

In most books you come across, it’s worth noting that the Arab ‘68 is largely forgotten in the international leftist literature, except for references to the radicalization of [...]

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 [...]

The best way to improve your photography skills, according to what I hear from peers, professors and veteran photographers, is to spend a good time looking at other people’s works, and see what they photographed, and try to think about where the photographer was standing when he was taking that pic, etc…
But, photography books in [...]

I received the following message from a Socialist activist in Cairo…
.العمال الثلاثة بدأوا إضرابا عن الطعام منذ الاحد الماضى حالة كريم تدهورت أمس الأثنين ..احتجاجا على الافراج عن جميع المعتقلين السياسيين سواهم
The three labor activists (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kareem el-Beheiri and Tarek Amin) started a hungerstrike Sunday, to demand their release… Kareem’s health condition has deteriorated [...]

From the BBC…
President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree to nationalise Venezuela’s biggest steelmaker, Ternium-Sidor. Argentina’s Techint, which owns 60% of it, has been given until the end of June to hand it over.
In the past two years the Venezuelan state has taken over foreign-controlled companies including cement, telecoms, oil, gas and electricity firms.
President Chavez [...]

Rebel Diaz…

Noora, US Palestinian activist…

Hanin, Palestinian activist…

Jess Ghannam, US Palestinian activist and radio talk show host…

Lily Haskell, Arab Resources and Organizing Center…

Allison, Students for Justice in Palestine activist…

ISO organizer Snehal Shingavi and activist blogger Yaman Salahi…

Jennifer Mogannam, Students for Justice in Palestine activist…

Sami, US Palestinian activist…

Sara Kershnar, Anti-Zionist Jewish activist in the Bay Area, and one [...]

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, [...]

Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri have started a hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison demanding their release…
There will be a protest in solidarity with the detainees in front of Dar el-Qadaa el-3ali, downtown Cairo, 14 May 12 noon…