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PM Nazif is following Comrade Mostafa’s blog!
Egypt’s blogging community was stupefied to find a comment by Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on a blog known for its opposition to the government.
One of the most heavily-criticized government officials in the blogsphere, Nazif confirmed that it was indeed he who posted the comment on “Ala Esm Masr” (In [...]

Kamal Khalil, recalling the 25 November 1976 Cairo University march which he led as an Engineering graduate student and a communist organizer…
The Nasserists and the Communists were due to march on that day. But there were divisions in every faction.. both among the Nasserists themselves and the Communists. The Workers Communist party activists had announced [...]

[2-1-1978] Protestors attacking ruling party office, during a general strike organized by the General Union of Tunisian Workers, which turned into an intifada [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives]

* Following the 1967 war, anti-Jewish riots spread in Tunisia as well as attacks on western interests and embassies [1]. The movement, however, was soon to assume a [...]

[12-10-1985] Central Security Forces taking shelter while students hurled stones at them, during leftists-led demonstrations outside Cairo University denouncing the United States and Israel [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives]

[25-11-1976] Leftist students demonstrate outside the parliament building to protest the high cost of living and Sadat’s economic policies. Two months later, the country was to witness a national uprising on 18 and 19 January 1977, that was crushed by Sadat’s army [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives]

It was exciting to learn from the Greek comrades during Marxism 2008 about the strike wave that is engulfing their country at the moment, and exchange stories and experiences about what’s going on in Egypt and Greece in terms of the industrial action… The workers, students and civil servants on both sides of the Mediterranean [...]

From Socialist Worker…
On Monday students at Rome’s La Sapienza university occupied, and stopped Roberto Fiore, leader of the hard line fascist Forza Nuova from addressing a conference. Fiore spent much of the 1980s in Britain, having fled Italy after being sought for involvement in the 1980 bombing of Bologna station which killed 85 people.
On Tuesday [...]

Via Al-Ahram…

Above: 24 February 1968… Cairo University students take to the streets, protesting the light sentences given to the Air Force generals blamed by Nasser for the 1967 defeat, and calling for political reforms, freedom of expression, the liberation of the universities from the control of the security services… The students, in the pic, are [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Students have protested in the Indonesian capital after the government announced an about 30 per cent increase in the cost of fuel.
Analysts say that the government’s is being forced to cut subsidies in the face of rising global oil prices.
Police arrested more than 100 demonstrators on Saturday as protesters threw homemade bombs.
Further rallies were [...]