Welcome to the West-backed Sisi’s war on terror. Socialist writer and poet, who disappeared in the custody of the NSS, is now facing terror charges.
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SDS, Weather Underground, and the 1960s
I enjoyed watching this interview with Mark Rudd:
Read on »US police 3 times as likely to use force against left-wing protesters, data finds
From the Guardian: Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against left-wing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a nonprofit that monitors political violence around the world.In the past 10 months, US law enforcement agencies have used teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and beatings at a
Read on »Socialist writer ‘disappears’ in NSS custody
Veteran socialist writer and labor journalist, Ahmad Khalifa, has disappeared following his detention by the National Security Sector in Fayoum, on 6 January. His whereabouts remain unknown, as of time of writing.
Read on »Piggipedia updates: Tarek Saber
General Tarek Saber, who is wanted by the Italians on charges of involvement in the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni, has been promoted to head the Interior Ministry’s Civil Affairs Department. General Saber is a veteran of State Security Police’s Counter-Communism Bureau, charged with monitoring and smashing left-wing and labor organizations. He has personally
Read on »Stand with jailed activists who fought for Egyptian workers’ rights
Ten years after the Egyptian revolution shook the world, a vicious military regime has detained tens of thousands without trial in dire conditions. This briefing for trade union activists highlights the cases of six socialist activists who are currently detained on spurious charges. They include journalists, a public transport worker, lawyers and a human rights
Read on »January 1977: Egypt’s Bread Uprising
This is the MA dissertation I wrote in 2001, on the 1977 Egyptian intifada.
Read on »Lessons from the Arab Spring
Part of an online talk I gave few months ago, organized by Marx21, on lessons from the first wave of Arab revolutions. I discussed five points:– Revolution is a process.– You cannot take over the state institutions. You have to smash them.– The need for a revolutionary organization.– The question of Islamism.– The street, ballot
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My entire photography archive (2003 – Present) is available on Flickr. All my photos are under Creative Commons license, which allows their use for commercial and non-commercial purposes, free of charge. If you want to support my work, please consider a small donation via my PayPal account.
Read on »Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was ‘too skinny’ to take a bullet during Cairo protest
The activist was killed by CSF Police Captain Yassin Muhammad Hatem Salah Eddin.
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