Government thugs assaulted and severely injured two members of the Resistance Students on Helwan University campus, south of Cairo. Under the watchful eyes of the police, around 15 from the university’s office of student affairs and plainclothes thugs attacked nine RS activists when the latter tried to put up banners against the rising education fees. [...]

Helwan University’s Resistance Students uploaded videos of their demonstration, held on 6 April, in solidarity with the Mahalla workers…

The Muslim Brothers are boycotting the student union elections in Cairo and Ain Shams Universities to protest security interference. Just like before, thugs were allowed into Ain Shams U campus to assault the student activists…
Correction: No clashes happened in Ain Shams on the same scale as 2006. The plainclothes thugs were indeed brought to campus, [...]

Blogger Mostafa “Lenin” Mahmoud, Cairo…

Slide show from the BBC… For a brief background on the 1968 events, check out this article…

Nagui, one of the leading members of Helwan University’s Resistance Students group, explaining to the audience during Tadamon’s gathering the hardships faced by students on the campuses today vis a vis the security services and the rising tuition fees. Nagui called for more coordination between the students and the labor movement, saying the latter held [...]

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An Iraqi Kurdish leftist publication interviews the Egyptian Socialist Students…

Please circulate the following statement…

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 [...]