The Center for Socialist Studies, Workers for Change, the Workers Coordination Committee, The Workers’ Solidarity Committee and the Socialist Afaq Center are calling for a solidarity demonstration in front of the Parliament, tomorrow Thursday 1pm, in support of the Real Estate Tax Strikers. Ghazl el-Mahalla workers are mobilizing for a simultaneous protest at El-Shoun Sq in Mahalla.
Tag: cairo
Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike Continues
I spent the day, together with a number of left-wing bloggers and journalists, at the “camp” set up by the Tax Strikers and their families in front of the Ministerial Cabinet HQ in Downtown Cairo. Roughly two thousand Real Estate Tax Officers are protesting, with their families, in front of the ministerial cabinet HQ in Downtown Cairo. Around 55,000 officers are taking part in the national strike. More photos, reports, updates, announcements, calls for solidarity coming soon.
Samir Amin
I was honored yesterday to moderate a Socialist Days 2007 session on “Neo-Liberalism Egyptian-Style,” that included Dr. Samir Amin, the prominent Egyptian dependency theorist, and Center for Socialist Studies researcher Wael Gamal.
