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Hi again Hossam. At the end of our last interview, we talked about events in Egypt just before the beginnings of the region-wide Arab Spring. What happened to finally trigger these massive protests ?
Khaled Said was a young, middle-class Alexandrian man whom regime police brutally tortured and (…)
Editor’s Note : Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. You can read Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Interview here, here and here. HI Hossam. We finished our last interview with the Kefaya street protests in the early 2000s. Was (…)
Editor’s Note: Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. You can read Part 1 of the Interview here and Part 2 here. Hi again Hossam. At the end of our last interview, the Soviet Union was collapsing while the Left in Egypt – as (…)
Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. Hi, Hossam. We finished our last installment by focusing on the events of 1961 when the Egyptian Left was in a bad state. Did things get any better afterward ?
The third communist wave (…)
Editors’ Note: Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. Because of the length of the interview, we will be publishing it in several parts. Hello Hossam. Could you start by introducing yourself? What is your political history, (…)
Egyptian novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89. The author of more than 50 books, she told me in one of our many interviews, in 2007, that she self-identified as
an African from Egypt, not from the Middle East … I am not (…)
by the Revolutionary Socialists, 21 September 2019
Whatever the outcome of the demonstrations we are witnessing, and whether or not you stand with them or against them, it is certain that the grip of terror on the hearts of people across Egypt is slackening and that the wall of fear built by (…)
Samir Amin (1931-2018) was one of the world’s greatest radical thinkers – a ‘creative Marxist’ who went from Communist activism in Nasser’s Egypt, to advising African socialist leaders like Julius Nyerere to being a leading figure in the World Social Forum.
Samir Amin’s ideas were formed in (…)
IDEAs network mourns the loss of the celebrated Marxist thinker Samir Amin, who was also a Member of our Advisory Board. Samir Amin’s razor-sharp intellect, penetrating analysis, strong anti-imperialism and conviction in the importance of third world solidarity as well as his deep and (…)
Trade unionists, MPs, writers and academics have launched a protest statement calling for the immediate release of Egyptian labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain who was seized by the security forces from his home on 18 May. Haitham appeared in court the following day and was remanded in custody for (…)
Yet another bloody holiday for the Copts of Egypt. Once again churches are bombed and dozens of churchgoers are killed on a religious holiday. Once again the corpses of Copts lie with the debris of their icons and what is left of their churches. Once again, al-Sisi’s regime, its military rule (…)
This week marks the beginning of the fourth year of the 3 July coup. The events of the last three years have shown, beyond any doubt, that this bloody coup had been planned and prepared by the army’s leadership and big businessmen months before it unfolded, and that the political and popular (…)
RESISTANCE TO THE REGIME OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
The events of the last six weeks show the complex and contradictory nature of the current period in the long confrontation with the regime of the counter-revolution. The class and political characters of the regime (…)
Egypt’s military regime has carried out a series of raids ahead of planned demonstrations on April 25 to transfer control of two islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. At least 100 people have been detained, including Haitham Mohamedain, a leading labor lawyer and activist with the (…)
EGYPTIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS expressed their feelings about the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square democratic revolution that toppled the Hosni Mubarak regime — now replaced by the even more brutal military-presidentialist dictatorship of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. .
Mahienour al-Masry, a (…)
Al-Qassam are not terrorists: open the Rafah crossing and lift the siege of Gaza!
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists
The decision by the Urgent Matters Court yesterday [31 January] to designate the Ezz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, as a “terrorist (…)
The regime trembles every time the anniversary of its great defeat in January 2011 approaches, when the Egyptian masses overthrew Mubarak and gave the thugs of the Interior Ministry a lesson they will never forget. No matter how often they try to deceive us and deceive the masses with their (…)
The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court today [Saturday 29 November] in the re-trial of Mubarak, his sons Gamal and Ala’a and fugitive businessman Hussein Salem, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his key aides was awaited, in the midst of contrasting expectations about the (…)
“WE DO NOT like prisons, but they do not scare us,” says Mahienour al-Masry, Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist who was serving a three year prison sentence for violating anti-protest laws before her recent release.
In the latest of numerous campaigns seeking justice within the Egyptian (…)
Egyptian Leftist Activist Mahinour El-Masry Freed after Spending 125 Days in Jail After spending 125 days in prison, leftist Egyptian activist Mahinour El-Masry was ordered to be released from prison today.
An Alexandria court suspended El-Masry’s six-month sentence, reports Mada Masr. In (…)
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