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Egypt: Brotherhood targets trade unions

http://bit.ly/TPgq7LCategories: Elections & governanceArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 603

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Egypt: Police torture 88, kill 34 under Morsi

http://bit.ly/RseuW4Categories: Human rightsArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 604

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Egypt: 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...

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Egypt: National Council for Women rejects constitution draft

http://bit.ly/YSn0ApCategories: Women & genderArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 605

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Egypt: Political groups, NGOs reject IMF loan as undemocratic, lacking...

http://bit.ly/W0AXg2Categories: DevelopmentArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 605

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Egypt: Persistant battle against rampant sexual harassment

http://bit.ly/W0BkaqCategories: Women & genderArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 605

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IMF 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...

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Eradicating 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...

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Egypt 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...

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The 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...

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Why 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...

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An 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...

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On 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...

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Third 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...

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Is 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...

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Egypt’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...

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Obama: 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...

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PACM 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...

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Algeria 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...

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Samir 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...

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South-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...

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Die 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...

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SOAWR 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...

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Egypt 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...

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Egypt: 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...

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From 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...

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Egypt’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...

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Africa’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...

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Samir 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,...

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Theoretical 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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