Egypt: Brotherhood targets trade unions
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View ArticleEgypt: Police torture 88, kill 34 under Morsi
http://bit.ly/RseuW4Categories: Human rightsArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 604
View ArticleEgypt: We refuse economic bondage: Stop the loans
Dear friends,In the coming period we will again be facing a familiar enemy that many of you have and continue to battle. International financial institutions like the IMF have long had a hand in...
View ArticleEgypt: National Council for Women rejects constitution draft
http://bit.ly/YSn0ApCategories: Women & genderArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 605
View ArticleEgypt: Political groups, NGOs reject IMF loan as undemocratic, lacking...
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View ArticleEgypt: Persistant battle against rampant sexual harassment
http://bit.ly/W0BkaqCategories: Women & genderArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 605
View ArticleIMF in Egypt: Revolution or coming full circle?
The Egyptian government has finally concluded an initial loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following two years of continual negotiations. The agreement is to be finalised by the...
View ArticleEradicating dissent in post-Mubarak Egypt
Sub-Title: Civil society face new repressive lawsLast week, and in the aftermath of mounting political tensions and street violence shaking the country, the Egyptian Ministry of Justice announced a new...
View ArticleEgypt held to account for failing to protect women protesters
The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has handed down a decision in a case concerning violence against four women journalists during a protest. The Commission found that the state of...
View ArticleThe necessity of revolutionary violence in Egypt
‘All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.’ - C. Wright MillsViolence is related to notions of justice. In Egypt there are two forms of justice that we have been...
View ArticleWhy millions of Egyptians wanted Morsi out
STOP PRESS: Following mass protests, Egypt's army has ousted President Mohammed Morsi from power, placed him under house arrest, suspended the constitution and pledged to hold early elections. The top...
View ArticleAn important victory of the Egyptian people
Yes, the fall of Morsi and of the rule of the Moslem Brothers is an important victory of the Egyptian people. It was expected by all Egyptians. Twenty five million citizens had signed a petition...
View ArticleOn the situation in Egypt: an insider’s viewpoint
Dear Friends,These words are part of discussions with friends in some African institutions and abroad relevant to the Western capitalist media’s categorization of Egyptian popular movement as a...
View ArticleThird phase of the Egyptian Revolution: Is this the path to war?
The contemporary Egyptian Revolution commenced after a popular uprising on January 25, 2011, whereby millions of protesters from diverse socio-economic, political and religious backgrounds demanded the...
View ArticleIs the Egyptian revolution dead?
The short answer is ‘No.’ A longer answer follows. What happened in Egypt between 30 June and 3 July was not a coup against an elected government. It was another attempt by the generals to co-opt...
View ArticleEgypt’s mass struggles, the coup and its regional implications
Sub-Title: Will Tunisia, Libya and other states follow a similar pattern?Although the United States has refused to condemn the military seizure of power in Egypt and is sending another four F-16...
View ArticleObama: Hands off Egypt
We must support the subordination of the military and police to civilian political and economic control and the stripping of the military and police of their stranglehold on the commanding heights of...
View ArticlePACM condemns Egyptian military
FREETOWN, 26TH AUGUST 2013: The Pan-Afrikan Community Movement (PACM) is a grassroots Pan-Africanist, community based movement of youths, students, women, employed and unemployed workers in urban and...
View ArticleAlgeria redux in Egypt
Quite tragically, Egypt now seems to be following the same bloody path as Algeria in the 1990s. As I forewarned in an article almost two years ago, [1] Egypt's military, like Algeria's in 1992, has now...
View ArticleSamir Amin reflects on Egypt
• The Muslim Brotherhood rule lasted just over a year, why did the collapse come so soon?AMIN: The fall of Morsi and of the rule of Muslim Brothers came as expected. Firstly, the government of the...
View ArticleSouth-South land grabbing: what the case of Egypt and southern neighbours...
Much land grabbing, or large-scale acquisitions of farmland by investors, states, and others since the 2007-2008 food-fuel-financial crisis, is the work of local and regional actors, rather than...
View ArticleDie hard: Egypt’s deadly factory
Some 900 km from Cairo, 46 years old Mohamed stands in front of a blast furnace, with a temperature reaching 450°C. Each day, for the past 11 years, this has part of his job at the ferrosilicon factory...
View ArticleSOAWR coalition condemns unfair of women human rights defenders in Egypt
The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) strongly condemns the unlawful and arbitrary detention of Women Human Rights Defenders in Cairo-Egypt on Saturday 21st June 2014. The seven...
View ArticleEgypt is calling the West’s bluff over its phony war on ISIS
Western states are trumpeting ISIS as the latest threat to civilisation, claiming total commitment to their defeat, and using the group’s conquests in Syria and Iraq as a pretext for deepening their...
View ArticleEgypt: Dreams and tales of building nuclear industry
Egyptian authorities have always dreamed of having a complete nuclear power industry to solve the energy shortage (deficit) in the country. Boosting electricity generation has long been a priority for...
View ArticleFrom Cape to Cairo: Africa rising with Tripartite Free Trade Area
It is official—Africa now has the largest trading block just launched on 10 June 2015 in Egypt with the signing of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). This free trade area is comprised of 26...
View ArticleEgypt’s Power Game: Why Cairo is Boosting its Military Power
This peculiar pattern began to take shape as soon as Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi became president in 2014. High-profile arms deals signed during his first two years in power include a 5.2 billion Euro...
View ArticleAfrica’s pioneering Marxist political economist
Sub-Title: Samir Amin (1931-2018) After a privileged youth in Egypt as the child of two medical practitioners, Amin attended university in Paris where his PhD offered a scathing Marxist analysis of...
View ArticleSamir Amin stands for people
Samir Amin walks along peoples struggling against exploitation, against imperialism in countries. Samir Amin transcends all borders capital creates to divide peoples struggling against exploiters,...
View ArticleTheoretical contributions of Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Sub-Title: Delinking from the Eurocentric world systemHe was a prodigious researcher and publisher issuing over 40 books, hundreds of articles and papers dealing with the relationship between the...
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