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‘The road to Paris and London lies via the towns of Afghanistan, the Punjab and Bengal’

Posted on By 3arabawy

Esme Choonara, A Rebel’s Guide to Trotsky, London: Bookmarks, 2007, Page 30:

Trotsky and Lenin believed that revolution in the West – in one of the key centers of capitalism – was necessary to secure the future of the international revolution. But they both also understood the importance of the revolts by those oppressed by colonialism and imperialism.
As Trotsky put it in 1919, while on the frontline with the Red Army, “The road to Paris and London lies via the towns of Afghanistan, the Punjab and Bengal”

… and Cairo, Gaza, Beirut and Baghdad.

تروتسكي

8 NATO occupation troops dead in 24 hours

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From AFP:

Eight international troops including three Poles and three Canadians have been killed in Afghanistan over the last 24 hours, a military source said Thursday.
News of the latest casualties came as French President Nicolas Sarkozy conducted a tribute ceremony in Paris for 10 French troops killed in an ambush near Kabul three days before.

Imperialism

Anti-police riot; Mubarak’s poster smashed

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Hundreds of citizens stormed and smashed the offices of the police and private security at a south Cairo underground metro station Wednesday night after security assaulted a lawyer, El-Badeel reports.

Security personnel in the Dar Essalam Metro Station with the help of two Police Corporals beat a lawyer till he passed out. The citizens, thinking the lawyer was dead, stormed and destroyed the offices of the police, private security, station manager and the cashiers. Also the demonstrators took down Hosni Mubarak’s picture hung on the wall of the police office, and stepped on it Mahalla-style.

Those interviewed in El-Badeel article complained of mistreatment on the hands of security and station officials, and said the latter were regularly harassing the women passengers.