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

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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.

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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.

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‘There is a different, more radical, mood in the country’

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Leftist activist and engineer Hamdi Qenawi attended the Mansoura Tax Collectors’ meeting:

There is a different, more radical, mood in the country today. Fear (from the regime) is much less than what it used to be. The movement for change has brought down barriers. We need to unite the movement, and do not fragment it along sector-related demands. We need to help one another, and exchange experiences. In their fight to build their free union, the Tax Collectors need to open channels with the workers in Mahalla and the Railways. And as our colleague said, we cannot stand in the middle. We either stand with the killer or the victim, with the robber or the robbed.

Hamdi Qenawi حمدي قناوي