Egyptian court jails leading Revolutionary Socialist Mahienour el-Massry
A court in Alexandria has jailed leading Revolutionary Socialist Mahienour el-Massry for two years and fined her over £4,000.
She has now gone missing in the prison system.
Her family went to visit...
Egypt’s revolutionaries still defying the military
Three years ago more than a million people packed Egypt’s Tahrir square celebrating the fall of the hated dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Today things are not so bright.
Revolutionary victimised by Egyptian military
The Egyptian military is moving to deepen its crackdown on opposition, hoping to wipe out the revolution that has swept the country since February 2011.
Well-known labour lawyer and Revolutionary...
Egypt’s second revolution
A mass uprising in Egypt has forced out President Mohammad Mursi just one year after he took office.
The military was forced to step in and remove Mursi after over...
Egypt’s revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood
Two years on, Erima Dall discusses role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egypt and the challenges ahead for the revolution that toppled a dictator
Two years ago the Egyptian...
Uprising of protest can stop Israel’s terror
Israel is again unleashing terror and death on the people on Gaza. But this new war comes amid a very different regional backdrop to the last Gaza war in...
Morsi wins President, but SCAF wants to rule in Egypt
Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, has taken office in Egypt’s Presidential elections. But he hasn’t taken power.
Egyptians celebrated the defeat of Ahmed Shafiq, the last Prime...
Shafiq the candidate of counter-revolution in Egypt’s elections
The final round of the Egyptian presidential election presents the real danger of counter-revolution in Egypt.
After the first round of voting, a run off for President will now take...
Tweetin’ about a revolution
Revolution 2.0: The power of the people is greater than the people in power
By Wael Ghonim
Fourth Estate
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Wael Ghonim is a Google marketing manager who became one of the...
Egyptian presidential elections: stop Mubarak’s man
Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists argue that the revolutionary movement in Egypt must do everything it can to keep Mubarak henchman Ahmad Shafiq from winning in the next round of the...
Egypt military in new assault on protests
The military regime that rules Egypt has launched a brutal crackdown against protesters in the country. Thugs attacked Islamist protesters in May while soldiers looked on. More than ten...
The generals, the Islamists and the Egyptian Revolution
After the recent election Egypt’s parliament is dominated by Islamists. But, argues Phil Marfleet, they face immense pressure from Egyptians to deliver real change and break with the military
Seventy...
Jobs crash: Gillard fiddles as recession looms in Europe
The world faces a “1930s moment”, as the IMF warned in late January. Five years after the economic crisis erupted in 2007, global capitalism has failed to recover.
The European...
One year on—Egypt’s deepening revolution
Mass people power brought down Mubarak’s dictatorship one year ago. Amy Thomas and Ernest Price look at where Egypt’s continuing strikes and demonstrations are heading
“Massive and effective street protest...
Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists: “All power and wealth to the people”
One year from the start of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak and is now challenging the power of Egypt's military junta, Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists analyse the dynamics of...
Egyptian trade unionists’ statement: “The factory and the square are one hand”
Egyptian trade unionists have called for demonstrations on January 25, the one year anniversary of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. The demands of workers and protestors have not been...
Egypt fights for the future of the revolution
The Egyptian revolution has reached a new turning point. People in their hundreds of thousands have returned to Tahrir square and the streets across the country, in response to...
Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists statement: Workers of Egypt, rise up!
Statement from the Revolutionary Socialists, released on November 21, 2011, calling on Egyptian workers to take strike action to help bring down the military regime.
Workers of Egypt: Rise up...
Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists: Down with military rule, down with Mubarak’s rule!
The Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists’ statement on the crisis in Egypt
Down with military rule, down with Mubarak's rule!
Revolutionaries have returned to Tahrir Square. Once again it is filled with young...
Demands for end of military rule grow in Egypt
Millions of people continue to radicalise as Egypt’s revolution moves left. Activists occupied Tahrir Square in central Cairo in July and similar public squares across Egypt, pledging to stay...
Egypt: the revolution continues
Egypt’s “second day of rage” on May 27 showed that the revolution is far from over. Over a million people across Egypt rallied and Tahrir Square was once again...
Egypt’s revolution takes fight to the army
Not content with overthrowing the figurehead of a repressive regime, the Egyptian working class is targeting Mubarak-era officials still running the military and public institutions. Workers at the Shebin...
Egypt’s revolution takes on the ‘little Mubaraks’
“IT IS our opinion that if this revolution does not lead to the fair distribution of wealth it is not worth anything. Freedoms are not complete without social freedoms....
Lessons from last time: national liberation in the Arab world
Many Arab leaders now facing revolts against their rule were themselves a product of the revolutionary wave in the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s that ended colonial...
Zimbabweans face possible death sentence for discussing Egyptian revolution: urgent solidarity needed
A group of socialists in Zimbabwe face a possible death sentence for watching a video about the Egyptian Revolution.
Some 52 activists were charged with treason and “subverting a constitutionally...
Witnessing ‘a festival of the oppressed’
Anne Alexander visited Cairo for Socialist Worker (UK) during the struggle to get rid of Mubarak and described the scene in Tahrir square
It is a seedbed for new kinds...
People power revolutions sweep the Middle East
People power revolutions are shaking the Middle East. Together with the revolution in Tunisia, Egypt’s revolt has shown the power of ordinary people to bring down even the most...
Strike movement finished Mubarak—and isn’t over yet
Hosni Mubarak's fate was sealed by the entrance of the Egyptian working class into the struggle against the regime.
Strikes by property tax collectors and Mahalla textile workers in 2006-2008...
Egypt: from people power to workers’ power
Solidarity looks at the way forward for the revolution that toppled a dictator
The beginning of 2011 saw revolutions unfolding across the Middle East. Masses of people, suffering decades of...
Muslim Brotherhood is a far from radical force
Western leaders could not publicly reject the call for democracy in Egypt, but as the Mubarak regime teetered and fell they reached for the one ideological weapon they could...
From Algeria to Iran, a mood of defiance is spreading
The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were justified by Western leaders with rhetoric about bringing “democracy” and “liberation” to the Middle East. But the revolts shaking the Arab world...
Egypt’s revolution that toppled the dictator
The tyrant has fallen. Mubarak has gone. Israel’s man, the US’s man, the World Bank’s man, has been deposed. Mubarak has been swept away by one of the greatest...
Statement of the Revolutionary Socialists Egypt
The statement was issued by revolutionary socialists in Egypt on Sunday February 6.
They have asked for it to be circulated and posted widely. They are also asking for messages of support,...
Egyptian socialist: ‘We can make Mubarak run like Ben Ali’
They said they would be there, and they were. The 25 January was declared a “Day of Anger” by democratic and socialist forces a week beforehand. The significance of...
Israel’s murder exposes terrorist state
Israel’s murderous attack on peace activists attempting to bring much needed aid to Gaza has outraged the world. The horrific deaths of nine activists has isolated Israel internationally. Even...
Israel’s war destabilises Egyptian dictatorship
Sara Poya was in Egypt in late January, at the end of the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza. She spoke with Solidarity.
Why was the Gaza war so significant in...
Imperialism and revolution in the Middle East
The Israeli assault on Gaza has exposed deep divisions between Arab ruling classes, their Western allies and the people of the region, argues Simon Assaf
In April 2008 Egypt’s interior...
Hezbollah delivers blow to US
ON MAY 6, the US-backed "March 14 coalition", who controlled the Lebanese government, took a new initiative aimed at weakening the power of Hezbollah, which led the successful resistance...
Climate change, poverty and capitalist development
Measures that could genuinely tackle rising carbon emissions are being held back by the desire of individual countries not to harm their economy's global competitiveness, writes Ernest Price.
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Egypt–protests riock US-backed regime
RIOTS IN Egypt against a government crackdown have shaken the regime of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak.
On April 6, Mubarak's security forces pre-empted a planned strike by textile workers...
