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

Posted on 22/08/200809/02/2021 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.

Anti-police riot; Mubarak’s poster smashed

Posted on 22/08/200809/02/2021 By 3arabawy

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.

‘We have to build our new union structures on the ground to be solid’

Posted on 22/08/200803/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Gamal Oweida, Daqahliya Tax Collector:

We have to build our new union structures on the ground, to be solid. They (govt) will fight us hard. The (state-backed General) Federation (of Trade Unions) will not like any new independent union entities in the country… Are there others thinking of (building) independent unions? Yes, in Mahalla and other places. We have to build bridges with them, and with our colleagues in civil service.