These are my links for January 30th through January 31st:
- Iceland coalition talks hit snag – By Patrick Lannin REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Efforts to form a new Icelandic government hit a last-minute hitch on Friday, but a party involved in the talks said a new cabinet to steer the country out of financial crisis would be unveiled on…
- Early Day Motion in Parliament Supporting the Student Occupations « Occupation Nottingham –
- More messages of support « Oxford Occupation in Solidarity with Gaza! – Chomsky included…
- Warwick declares (a transient) victory! « The Warwick Solidarity Sit-In –
- Power to the people! « Occupation Nottingham –
- الأخبار - عربي - تجدد الاحتجاجات في البحرين بسبب استمرار احتجاز معارضين – شهدت بعض القرى والمناطق البحرينية مساء الخميس موجة جديدة من الاحتجاجات بسبب استمرار اعتقال ثلاثة نشطاء معارضين بتهمة تأسيس وتمويل جماعة إرهابية, أفرج عن واحد منهم بضمان محل إقامته.
- Al Jazeera English – Americas – US governor thrown out of office – The governor of the US state of Illinois has been thrown out of his job and barred from ever holding public office in the state again, following his conviction in a senate impeachment trial.
- Why British jobs for British workers is not solution to crisis|31Jan09|Socialist Worker – The Socialist Workers Party has issued a statement on the walkouts in construction.
- Leninism 2.0: a militant network of collaborating agents – Comrades, please share your thoughts…
- Reporters Without Borders – 27.01 – Egypt: blogger fined for accusing company of dumping hazardous chemicals – A court in Al Zohor (west of Cairo) fined blogger Tamer Mabrouk (http://elhakika.blogspot.com) 2,500 Egyptian pounds (340 euros) on 20 January for allegedly libelling an Egyptian company, Trust Chemicals, in a blog entry accusing it of dumping hazardous waste in Lake Manzalah and the Suez Canal. The company filed its lawsuit last June.
- LENIN’S TOMB: The wild cat strikes are <strike>not</strike> racist – Those few who are raising slogans like 'British jobs for British workers' need to sort their arguments out, because they're wrong and they're misleading, and they seriously damage the prospects for solidarity. What's more, they got that slogan from Gordon Brown, and that itself should warn them that there's something wrong with it. This is not about foreign labour as such – the vast majority of these workers have no problem working alongside migrant workers. And the decision to refuse local workers access to those jobs has nothing to do with the company involved being nice and pleasantly multicultural. Nor is it about labour shortages, as there are plenty of skilled workers available to the employers at the Lindsey oil refinery. Nor is it even about cheap labour in this case, although there have been attempts to use cheap labour to run down conditions in the past.
- LENIN’S TOMB: Ugly turn – A7a
- A good Arab is a stoned Arab « Kafr al-Hanadwa – An Israeli ‘green’ party calls for the legalization of pot on…security grounds!
- Leninism 2.0: Why British jobs for British workers is not the solution to the crisis – Against racist strikes..
- LENIN’S TOMB: Support the occupations. – In support of the UK pro-Gaza student occupations…
- الأخبار - عربي - القاهرة تمنع وفد المهندسين الأردنيين العبور لغزة – قالت نقابة المهندسين الأردنيين إن السلطات المصرية منعت وفدها المتوجه لقطاع غزة من الدخول عبر معبر رفح، مشيرة إلى أن سلطات المعبر تذرعت بما أسمته "عدم وجود موافقة أمنية" للعبور.
- جريدة البديل – اللجان النقابية في مطاحن قطاع الأعمال تهدد بالاعتصام لمواجهة قرار الحكومة تحرير الدقيق – هددت اللجان النقابية في شركات مطاحن قطاع الأعمال العام وهي «جنوب الدلتا» و«شمال الدلتا» و«وسط الدلتا» و«غرب الدلتا» والاسكندرية بالإعتصام بمقر النقابة العامة للصناعات الغذائية احتجاجاً علي توجه الحكومة لتغيير النظام المعمول به حالياً في طحن الأقماح
- Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Israeli raid injures Gaza children – At least nine people, seven of them school girls, have been injured by an Israeli air attack in the southern Gaza Strip, sources tell Al Jazeera.
- The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: On the Turkish role – I received so many links about the scene of the Turkish prime minister in Davos. It would have been more impressive if the close political, military, and intelligence relations between Turkey and Israel are suspended. Short of that, the scene is a gimmick. Of course, you may say but it is better than the performance of Arab governments. That is true: but a monkey dancing while wearing a dress is a better performance than Arab governments. A potato would lead the Arab League better than the buffonish, Amr Mousa.
- الأخبار - عربي - تقرير: حرب غزة لم تنه تهديد حماس لإسرائيل – رأى المعهد الدولي للدراسات الإستراتيجية ومقره لندن أن حرب قطاع غزة لم تنه التهديد التي تتعرض له إسرائيل من حركة المقاومة الإسلامية الفلسطينية (حماس) وأدى إلى "إضفاء الشرعية" على الحركة على حساب القوى التي توصف بالاعتدال
- Media Workers Against the War » Blog Archive » Eight reasons why the BBC is wrong on Gaza –
- Al Jazeera English – Americas – Obama blasts ‘shameful’ bonuses – Obama adopting a populist rhetoric…
- Leninism 2.0: Resistance 2.0 begins.. – The blog (still in beta format) launched..
- Leninism 2.0: Lenin rendered in ascii – Cool…
- Leninism 2.0 – The beta blog for sharing multimedia and Web2.0 activism tips and products has been launched…
- Lenosphere Updated –
- Iceland banking crisis video and more 2008 and 2009: New Goverment in Iceland ,next saturday ,But still protests –
- Iceland banking crisis video and more 2008 and 2009: Protest against NATO over in Reykjavik. – Demonstration against NATO in Iceland
- Leftists drawing up ‘blacklist’ of officers who fought in Gaza – Haaretz – Israel News – As far as is known, there has been no cooperation in this effort between local and international activists.
- Egypt and beyond: Articles on free union, Mahalla, and train drivers strike – Per's articles in Swedish about the tax collectors' free union, the train drivers strike and the struggle in Mahalla
More blogs added to the Lenosphere…
Revolution 2.0 continues… For workers’ power and international socialism…
Every new form of struggle, accompanied as it is by new dangers and new sacrifices, inevitably “disorganises” organisations which are unprepared for this new form of struggle. Our old propagandist circles were disorganised by recourse to methods of agitation. Our committees were subsequently disorganised by recourse to demonstrations. Every military action in any war to a certain extent disorganises the ranks of the fighters. But this does not mean that one must not fight. It means that one must learn to fight. That is all. V. I. Lenin – Guerrilla Warfare, 1906
These are my links for January 29th through January 30th:
These are my links for January 27th through January 29th:
- ei: Surge of direct action at UK universities in support of Palestine – Students from at least 17 universities in the United Kingdom have staged sit-ins, as part of an unprecedented increase in British activism in support of the Palestinians.
- Occupation Nottingham – The blog of the pro-Gaza students occupying Nottingham University
- Car bomb – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The first car bomb may have been the one used for the assassination attempt on Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1905 in İstanbul by Armenian separatists, in the command of Belgian anarchist Edward Jorris.
- Gaza: Victory for the resistance? ندوة بمركز الدراسات الاشتراكية: هل انتصرت المقاومة في غزة؟ -
- Al Jazeera English – Europe – Fiat boss fears 60,000 job losses – About 60,000 jobs could be lost in Italy’s car industry unless the government bails out the sector, Fiat’s chief executive has said.
- Omar Khairat – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm – موسيقى عمر خيرت
- Dissident Voice : Fuelling the Cycle of Hate – Israeli soccer matches were suspended during the assault on Gaza. When the games resumed last week, the fans had come up with a new chant: “Why have the schools in Gaza been shut down?” sang the crowd. “Because all the children were gunned down!” came the answer.
Aside from its sheer barbarism, this chant reflects the widespread belief among Israeli Jews that Israel scored an impressive victory in Gaza — a victory measured, not least, by the death toll.
- Protesters occupy BBC over Gaza appeal – HUNDREDS of people are sending their television licences to the BBC today in protest over its refusal to air an emergency appeal for Gaza.
- Sheffield Hallam Occupation – With the success of occupations throughout the UK, Sheffield Hallam students and workers from around the city voted to occupy the tenth floor of the Owen building. This is to make practical demands of the university in solidarity with Palestinians and to condemn the actions of the Israeli state.
- Daily News Egypt – Railway workers’ strike paralyses major transport artery – Sarah Carr reports…
- Greek farmers block borders – By Vassilis Triandafyllou PROMACHONAS, Greece (Reuters) – Greek farmers shut border crossings and blocked roads for a tenth day on Wednesday while aviation officials disrupted international flights, piling pressure on a government struggling to face…
- Greek air traffic control strike to ground flights – ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of flights to and from Greece will be grounded Wednesday during rolling strikes by air traffic controllers, their union said in a statement. Air traffic controllers will hold four separate three-hour stoppages throughout…
- بيان صحفي حول وصول القافلة الثالثة إلى غزة | اللجنة الشعبية لدعم الشعب الفلسطيني – مرت في حوالي الساعة 2 ظهرا من يوم الثلاثاء 27 يناير القافلة الإغاثية الطبية الثالثة للجنة من معبر رفح إلى قطاع غزة. قيمة القافلة 150 ألف جنيه وقوامها الأدوية والمستلزمات الطبية، وبالأخص أنابيب الأكسجين ومثبتات العظم.
- Occupied Bradford – University Solidarity For Gaza: Success – Victory…
- Luxor News – Jane Akshar: More changes on the East Bank – The govt is destroying Luxor…!
- WordPress › WP_LinkTools « WordPress Plugins – I strongly recommend this plug in to be installed on your blogs, comrades.. This helps generate more internet traffic to your websites, and promotes your socialist literature in social bookmarking networks…
- Egyptians ignore strike call by Facebook activists group at 3arabawy – “We should be grateful we have today all these technological resources that didn’t exist for the 19th and 20th C revolutionaries.. But this technology should be complimentary and a logistical support for whatever we do ON THE GROUND…”
- Egypt: Anatomy of an Uprising || The Catalyst – “Though certainly a minority of Egyptians have regular access to the internet and fewer read blogs, the shockwaves created by the leftist revolutionaries blogging Egypt’s social ills do reach the streets.”
- Net benefit? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk – Egyptian bloggers and the strike movement…
- I do NOT endorse the May 4th General Strike Call at 3arabawy – Between virtual fantasies and organizing on the ground…
- BBCArabic.com | الشرق الأوسط | اضرابا 6 ابريل و4 مايو: بين الواقع والعالم الافتراضي -
- YouTube – US air raid fuels Afghan anger – 27 Jan 09 -
- Tottenham SWP – A new blog joins the Lenosphere…
- U.S. Navy ordered to release Iran weapons ship – On Jan. 19, the U.S. Navy stopped the Iranian ship and conducted a two-day search in Egyptian territorial waters. Officials said the cargo contained artillery shells and other ammunition, but the captain did not identify the end-user. They said the ship was destined for the Egyptian port of Damietta.
- جريدة البديل – 4 ضباط أمن دولة يقتحمون منزل مخرج في القناة الثالثة ويحتجزونه بتهمة أنه «المهدي المنتظر» – اقتحم أربعة ضباط من مباحث أمن الدولة منزل ياسر الصيفي، المخرج في القناة الثالثة، في الساعة الثانية من صباح أمس الأول، وفتشوا المنزل وأخذوا جهاز الكمبيوتر الخاص به، وبعض الأوراق والمستندات والكتب، وأجندة التليفونات، واصطحبوه إلي مقر أمن الدولة في مدينة السادس من أكتوبر، ثم أخلوا سبيله صباح أمس. وقال ياسر الصيفي إنه فوجئ بأربعة أفراد يقتحمون منزله ورفضوا إظهار هويتهم الشخصية وفتشوا المنزل،وقال: عندما اتصلت زوجتي بالنجدة حدثوهم تليفونياً ورفضت النجدة الحضور.
- جريدة البديل – أمناء الشرطة.. المماليك الجدد – عشرات القضايا المتهم فيها أمناء الشرطة.. لأنهم يد النظام التي تبطش
- Lenosphere Updated -
- إلى حماة “السيادة المصرية” المزعومة -
- جريدة البديل – محللون أمريكيون: العنصرية والعقلية الاستعمارية وراء انحياز الإعلام «الفطري» لإسرائيل -
- Egypt and beyond: Wadi Natrun farmers protest rising land prices – El-Badeel and el-Doustour reports: Between 400 and 600 small farmers in Wadi Natrun demonstrated in front of the ministry of agriculture on Sunday, accusing the government of “selling their land to them twice” and protesting a dramatic raise in the yearly installments which threatens to force them away from their plots, after they had worked hard to cultivate the previously unproductive area. According to el-Badeel the total number of famers affected is about 10.000.
- Egyptian chronicles: They should be sent to court – 1- Abdallah Kamal.
2- Karm Gabr
3- Momtaz El-Kut
5-Osama Saria.
6-Ali Ibrahim.
7-Magdy El-Dakak.
8-Ahmed Moussa.
9-Khairy Ramadan.
10-Tarek Hassan.
11-Samir Ragab.
12-Ibrahim Nafea.
- Trains Signal Operators are on STRIKE! -
- Science 2.0: New online tools may revolutionize research – As blogs and sites like Twitter allow ordinary people to share details of their day-to-day lives, some scientists are sharing their laboratory activities through open lab notebooks online.
- Jaiku | We occupied the BBC for about half am hour. Already been on 6o’clock news! – Great job Clare… The SWP activists are increasingly using the Web2.0 tools to spread the word and provide continuous updates about their actions.. I hope MORE socialists make use of these technological advancements..
- Solomon’s Mindfield: We occupied the BBC on Portland place today… – Bravo Clare..!
- Al-Ahram Weekly | Egypt | Obituary: Twin icons of the left – Abdel-Azim Anis; Mahmoud Amin Al-Alim
I’ll be discussing, jointly with Palestinian leftist writer Abdel Qader Yassin and Political Economist Samer Suleiman, “Gaza: Victory for the resistance?” in a public lecture, organized by the Center for Socialist Studies next Monday, 2 February, 6pm.
يدعوكم مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية لندوة بعنوان
هل انتصرت المقاومة في غزة؟
انتهت الحرب الصهيونية على غزة رسميا ولكن تبقى تساؤلات ما زالت تتردد في الساحة السياسية المصرية حول أسباب ونتائج الحرب… النظام المصري: وساطة أم تواطؤ؟ هل تحول الصراع مع إسرائيل إلى صراع أديان في الوقت الذي يتصاعد فيه الخطاب الديني على جانبي الخط الأخضر؟ هل هناك تعارض بين التحرر الوطني ورفع المقاومة لشعارات دينية؟ ما الموقف الذي يتوجب على اليسار المصري اتخاذه تجاه حماس؟ مستقبل حركة التضامن المصرية مع فلسطين بعد نهاية الحرب؟
المتحدثون
الأستاذ عبد القادر ياسين.. الكاتب والمفكر الفلسطيني صاحب عدة مؤلفات عن تاريخ المقاومة الفلسطينية
الدكتور سامر سليمان.. الأستاذ المساعد بقسم العلوم السياسية بالجامعة الأمريكية، والناشط بالمركز الاجتماعي الديمقراطي
حسام الحملاوي.. الصحفي والناشط بمركز الدراسات الاشتراكية
الإثنين، ٢ فبراير، السادسة م
مقر مركز الدراسات: ٧ شارع مراد، الجيزة
A 24 year old woman accused the head of Criminal Investigations in Shoubra el-Kheima’s 2nd Police Station of torturing her, by shaving her head, burning her cheeks with cigarettes, threatening to rape her, after she filed a complaint against him for illegally arresting her husband several times.. The officer was shouting, “You file a complaint against me, you cockroach?!” while torturing the woman…
Around 300 microbus drivers in Giza went on a 48 hour strike, blocking the Gamet el-Dowal el-Arabiya in Mohandessin, to denounce police harassment, insults, unfair fines, arbitrary arrests…
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