Some more pix from Marxism 2008.
Comrade Simon stressing the central role to be played by the Egyptian working class in smashing the Zionist State.
Ilan Pappé exposing Zionist myths and war crimes.
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Marxism 2008
Marxism 2008 opened yesterday. I was honored to share platform with leading IST comrades from Britain, Zimbabwe and Ireland.
The first event in the conference saw Comrade Simon giving a great presentation on Palestine and the central role to be played by the Egyptian working class in smashing the Zionist state.
I’m overwhelmed by the interest in Mahalla by virtually everyone I meet. The town is mentioned in literally every conversation I have with any one, and in any public talk about the ME.
Rashad
Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and faced with an escalating witch-hunt campaign and purges by Sadat’s regime against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communists and radical nationalists left the country and sought refuge in Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait (yeah, believe it or not, Kuwait received tons of Egyptian communists back then!) and Yemen… Four months after my birth, my family left Egypt for Yemen in 1977, where we lived in Sana’a for two years. In the above photo, taken in 1978 or 1979, my father (on the left dancing while carrying a stick) is dressed together with an Egyptian friend in a Yemeni traditional costume, during a trip outside Sana’a. Below, is a pic of Hoss and Abu Hoss taken on 13 June 1979.
