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Graphics Against System (G.A.S.)

This is the shit right here.  Mohamed blogs:

G.A.S. or graphics against system is a project I started in working on it long time ago, exactly when I started to feel that I can do real designs that’s more powerful that million words, GAS goal is so simple making designs that have the beauty of the art & the power of swards in order to agitate the people against the capitalist systems every where on this planet.

Killing Has Become the Norm

Cross-posted from The Blog and the Bullet.

Aruni Kashyap blogs on the recent repression by the Indian government on the people of India:

Manoj Deka’s brutal murder by Asam police in the name of counter insurgency operation holds multiple shocking implications about current politics in Assam. Manoj Deka was a senior leader of the Communist Party of India, Assam and held the post of the Morigaon district CPI General Secretary.

[Hat Tip: Bhupinder]

The Talaban and Debates Within the Communist Sphere of Pakistan

Originally posted on The Blog and the Bullet.

Vidrohi blogs:

The recent military operations by Frontier Corps (FC) on the religious extremist groups around Peshawar led to a series of debates and discussion amongst the CMKP members regarding the position to be adopted on the question of Taliban and religious-extremists. The conclusion of the debate has been summarised by Ali Jan that is being presented as follows with minor editions

Workers of the World Unite!

By Mohamed Gaber

FARC-EP in Crisis!!

Well, maybe, not sure.  But according to U.S. and other Western media outlets it is!  And they’re never wrong!

Since there is all this talk about FARC now I want to point everyone to an interview from the March 2008 edition of the Monthly Review by Jean Batou of FARC spokesman and advocate Rogrigo Granda:

Rodrigo Granda is a member of and the leading international spokesperson for the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC–EP). His name gained global prominence in December 2004 when he was kidnapped in Venezuela and handed over to Colombian authorities by a number of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers seeking a reward placed on his head by the Colombian government. At the time of his capture Granda was attending a meeting of the Bolivarian Peoples Movements in Caracas. Granda’s kidnapping in Venezuela at the instigation of the Colombian government created an international dispute between Venezuela and Colombia. He was released in 2007 in response to pressures exerted on the Colombian government by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Fuck the Capitalists

Fuck the capitalists, fuck the police, fuck Arroyo, and fuck UPS management.

Thanks to Hossam.

For original version click here.

Fuck Gandhi. Long Live Bhagat Singh

Cross-posted from The Blog and The Bullet.

Dave at Complex System of Pipes posts a blog on Gandhi’s violent doctrine:

Gandhi was chastising two platoons of Hindu troops who disobeyed orders to fire upon Muslim crowds in Peshawar, 1930. The platoons that did obey perpetrated an act of great violence, killing and wounding hundreds, but this drew little complaint from the Great Soul; on the other hand, breaking ranks with the oppressor to stand with the oppressed earned his forthright censure. And yet, it seems such a victory for non-violent disobedience to the end of indepence: after the mutiny the army and police withdrew from the city, which was effectively ruled by the people for ten days.

[Hat Tip: Hossam]

For more on Bhagat Singh check here and here.

“Dirty Commie Scum!”

Ah the ruling class…

Nepal Abolishes the Monarchy

The Times of India reports:

Nepal on Wednesday scripted a new chapter in its turbulent history as the new constituent assembly abolished the 240-year-old monarchy and declared the country a “secular, federal democratic republic”.

The 601-member assembly met at the Birendra International Convention Centre on Wednesday evening where a motion was passed to declare the country the world’s newest republic.

After a series of meetings, the Seven Party Alliance agreed to table the motion of republic in the first meeting of the constituent assembly, dominated by Maoists.

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The motion was passed by 560 votes in favour while four members opposed it.

The motion said that Nepal will be secular, federal, democratic republic nation and King Gyanendra will be reduced to a common citizen.

Upon hearing the news, supporters of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) burst into cheers, waving red flags and shouting “Long live the Republic!” All though the news wasn’t so much of surprise to them and others in Nepal as they had been celebrating in the streets of the capital hours before the official announcement came. The king has fifteen days to leave his palace and become a common citizen.

This is yet another step in the right direction for Nepal as the Maoists continue to consolidate their power and show that their demands are being meet and not being curtailed. I’m sure those Marxists out their, whether they bee dogmatic Western Marxists or dogmatic Maoists (who for some reason still support China in some cases), will still meet this with skepticism as truly the Maoists in Nepal aren’t “true revolutionaries” since they are now apart of the government.

However, they fail to recognize that resistance and revolution come in many forms, not just in armed struggle, and the Maoists seemed to have played their cards right by taking up arms in the 1990s and waiting for their time to take up political power. They are now the absolute majority in the new assembly, have abolished the monarchy, and are in line to set up a new constitution based on socialist principles: and they still have all of their arms and army (all be it under a UN monitoring program).

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35th Anniversary of the NDFP

While Jose Maria Sison may be wrong about Tibet (he’s only human), one thing he does know quite well and has good analysis of is the struggle in the Philippines against capitalism and dictatorship. April 24th was the 35th anniversary of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. JoMa (as he is known) has written two statements about the anniversary of the NDFP and I thought I’d share some of his words from “35 years of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines: Insights into its history and program,” and “Current Philippine Situation and Prospects of the NDFP“

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) was conceived in the midst of the rapid growth of the revolutionary mass movement in 1971. This was soon after the repeated militant mass actions in early 1970, called the “First Quarter Storm”. The ferment of resistance against the Marcos regime was rising to boiling point. It was then that the Communist Party of the Philippines formed the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

Months after Marcos declared martial law in September 1972, a mass campaign “NO TO MARTIAL LAW” arose. The NDFP PrepCom announced its 10-Point Program on 24 April 1973. This has been celebrated as the founding of the NDFP.

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The major part of the work of the NDFP allied organizations is in the wide countryside. Mass organizations of peasants and farm workers, workers, women, youth, cultural groups and children are set up. Mass campaigns for land reform, health, education, culture, and self-defense are carried out in response to the peasants’ basic needs. Organs of political power or alternative governments on the barrio level are formed, while the New People’s Army and the CPP are strengthened.

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The NDFP is the most consolidated and most powerful united front of revolutionary forces in the Philippines. It has succeeded in gathering, harmonizing and coordinating the revolutionary forces and winning over the millions of people to the cause of armed revolution. It has promoted the growth of all its allied organizations, the revolutionary mass movement and the organs of political power. It has served as the base for various types of alliances.

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In 1992, the CPP launched the Second Great Rectification Movement to correct major errors instigated and carried out by a small group that turned out to be renegades in the leadership of the CPP. All the other allied organizations of the NDFP joined the CPP and the masses in carrying out this mainly educational movement to identify, repudiate and correct the errors. The overwhelming majority of cadres and members of the revolutionary movement and the masses embraced the rectification movement as the small group of renegades refused to accept their responsibility and turned against the revolutionary movement and the people.

The Second Great Rectification Movement laid the foundation for vigorous growth, consolidation and expansion, including recovery of lost areas and communities. Since then, the NDFP allied organizations s have widened and deepened their work among the masses in the countryside and urban areas.

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The character of the Philippine ruling system has remained semi-colonial and semi-feudal. This system is in chronic crisis. It is ever rife for a national democratic revolution. The Arroyo regime has aggravated and deepened the crisis by escalating the exploitation and oppression of the people under the US-dictated policy of “neoliberal globalization” and “war on terror.

It is hostile to the national and democratic rights and interests of the Filipino people and to the development of the economy through national industrialization and genuine land reform. It is extremely servile to the US and other imperialist interests. It has allowed free rein to plunder of the economy by foreign corporations and by the big compradors and landlords. It knows no bounds for its bureaucratic corruption, the practice of electoral fraud and rampant human rights violations.

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The worsening of the socio-economic crisis has resulted in the sharpening of the political crisis in the Philippine ruling system. The ground for amicable mutual accommodation among the reactionaries has increasingly become constricted. The Arroyo ruling clique has increasingly monopolized the spoils of power. The rising bitter rivalries within the ruling clique have resulted in the exposure of many outrageous cases of bureaucratic corruption. The intra-systemic political rivals of the ruling clique and the broad range of the opposition, including the patriotic and progressive forces, are inspired by the people’s outrage and are emboldened to expose and oppose the regime.

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Significant sections of the reactionary classes are already vocal and active within the broad united front against the Arroyo regime. But the most decisive event is still to come, which is the pouring out of hundreds of thousands of people into the streets of the national capital region in order to signal the anti-Arroyo military and police officers and personnel to withdraw support from the Arroyo regime and give way to a new civilian government.

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The rapidly worsening crisis of the ruling system inflicts terrible suffering on the broad masses of the people. But it also incites the people to fight back. It serves as the favorable objective condition for the advance of the subjective forces of the revolution, particularly the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). These are the three magic weapons of the Filipino people for carrying out the new democratic revolution through protracted people’s war against the oppressive and exploitative forces of foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.

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The ceaseless worsening of the crisis of the world capitalist system and that of the Philippine ruling system is favorable to the international work of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. This work involves political work among the overseas Filipinos in order to defend their rights and promote their welfare. It also involves work to further strengthen and develop solidarity and mutual support between the Filipino people and other peoples through their respective mass formations and coordinating committees. It further involves proto-diplomatic and diplomatic relations with particular governments or intergovernmental agencies.

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This growth and achievements over the past 35 years are possible only with the support of the masses. We honor the many martyrs and heroes among the masses and the NDFP leaders who gave up their lives for the Filipino people and the Philippine revolution. We also honor our internationalist friends who have rendered and are still rendering selfless service to the Filipino people.

On the firm foundation of the 35 years of glorious revolutionary struggle, we are confident of winning more victories in the years to come until we achieve nationwide victory in our struggle for national and social liberation.

Communist Victory in Nepal

It seems pretty much assured that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will become a majority party in the Nepali parliament. The People’s Review (Nepal), not a Maoist newspaper (in fact, it’s sometimes downright anti-CPNM), reports:

Maoists are just seven seats away from victory in the 601-member constituent assembly 10 April election and are in a position to implement their agenda for a republic and French-style powerful presidential system with Chairman Prachanda as Nepal’s first executive president They have so far bagged 114 of the 209 direct seats declared so far and are leading in constituencies where vote counting progresses. They lead in vote counting for indirect elections securing 32 percent total votes nationwide.

They’ve come quite a long way from a burgeoning insurgency in 1994 to a major political party in the constitution assembly elections to now (almost assuredly) the ruling party of Nepal.

Not only has the CPN (M) won (in the most recent count) a majority but the other communist parties in Nepal have won some seats as well. The CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) have won 28 seats (so far).

Fred Weston and Pablo Sanchez state that:

the combined vote of the two main Communist parties stands at about 50%! Thus rather than seeking any alliances with the parties that represent the weak Nepalese bourgeoisie, the two main Communist parties should be thinking in terms of a United Front without bourgeois parties and leading the masses in the struggle for socialism. Unfortunately, it is unclear what parliamentary tactic the Maoists will adopt.

Some Marxists (of many varaties) around the world have praised this success, others have been neutral, while others still have taken this victory to make the point that the CPN (M) are rejectionists and not really Marxist/Maoist/Socialist/Leninist/chose other commie label here_____ at all; but instead some weird perversion of Marxism. I myself fall in the “slightly leaning toward support but still neutral” camp as I still don’t know enough about the revolutionary situation in Nepal.

To those who are critical of the Maoists’ unorthodox approach they say:

It is easy to cling to dogmas and memorizing some revolutionary phrases without being engaged in the revolutionary practice. But a genuine communist party should never forget that Marxism teaches us to become critical towards Marxism itself, and only revolutionary practice is a laboratory to know that whether one is upholding Marxism or something else. In the dazzling light of this Marxist principle the C.P.N (Maoist) has been applying Marxism to the concrete situation of Nepal which we believe will further develop this science.

However, one thing I do admire and like is not absolute and blinded dogmatic belief to one school of thought:

“They’re not true Marxists!” Read, “They don’t adhere to dogmatic Marxism in the eyes of white Europeans.”

“They’re not true Maoists!” Read, “They don’t blindly support the modern day capitalist Chinese Communist Party.”

“They’re not true revolutionaries!” Read, “They must only take power through arms!”

Etc., etc.

The CPN (M) justifiably (and I’d argue revolutionaries and Marxist around the world need to do this) molded and shaped Marxist and Maoist doctrine (which isn’t set in stone) to their situation in Nepal and adapted it to make it understandible to the peasants and workers of Nepal. And this makes perfect sense, the communists in Nepal know what’s best for Nepal not outsiders from China or Britain.

Whether or not they form an alliance with CPN (UML) is to be seen; it would be nice (especially if their coalition is over 50%) but the Maoists know best what to do with the UML not outsiders (well, at least I hope).

Now what needs to be done is shaping the constitution to create a “21st century” socialist country. Right now they are making all the right moves to those on the outside, talking to India, China, etc. But hopefully they do not temper their zeal for revolutionary change (i.e. not reform) to please other governments. Time will tell.

I leave you know with a statement from Central Committee from the Communist Party of the Philippines:

The peasant masses need to benefit from genuine and thoroughgoing land reform as the main content of the democratic revolution. They need to be empowered with the necessary instruments for securing, defending and advancing their economic and social gains. They and the rest of the people of Nepal are faced with the still powerful enemies of the new democratic revolution that are nestled in the current state and society.

More than ever, the alliance of the working class and the peasantry, under the leadership of the CPN (Maoist) as the advanced detachment of the Nepali working class, is needed to advance the new democratic revolution. The basic worker-peasant alliance is the foundation of still broader alliances for uniting and mobilizing the entire people of Nepal.

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21st Carnival of Socialism

[Updated: I knew I would forget something! How could I forget to include a post from Bhupinder?!]

Welcome everyone to the 21st Carnival of Socialism which focuses on South Asian politics as well as South Asian socialist and communist movements. I first want to give a big appreciation and thanks to my friends Bhupinder over at a reader’s words for suggesting some leftist and revolutionary blogs in South Asia and to Krish of Jagadguru for also trying to help me find some blogs as well. I also want to give a big thanks to all of the bloggers at Blogbharti, which was a very valued resource for me in trying to find South Asian bloggers who tackle the issues of South Asian politics. Not all of the blogs here today are from South Asia and not all are trully written by those who perscribe to socialism (as Bhupinder pointed out to me, there aren’t too many blogs like that being written in South Asia) but they do tackle subjects that deal very much with socialist issues; such as poverty, class, caste, and capitalism.

So now, onto the carnival with posts in (relatively) no particular order!

First, any talk about socialism wihtin South Asia immediatly brings up the Communist Party of India (Maoist), or, as there are known, the Naxals. In this blog post Madhukar blogs about the book Red Sun: Travels through the Naxalite Country:

Reading the book, brought back these memories of my “encounters” during last few months. During last couple of months, I had a chance of travelling across the interiors of Jharkhand, Orissa and Chattisgarh in connection to some assessment of NGOs… This was also an opportunity to cross-check the official line that the Maoists - described as “these thugs/ anti-national elements/ criminals” etc. - resist “development” (industrialisation, mining projects, large dams, investments, job-creation, building of infrastruction, etc.), because they feeds on poverty, misery and lack of development and so on.

Here are some snapshots from my “vicarious” experiences:

Jimmy Higgins posts an interview with G.N. Saibaba on the blog Fire on the Mountain (there is a Part II as well):

The Maoist movement in India is not confined to the backward areas. It’s a vast movement, and includes the “developed” areas. Maoists work both in the countryside and the cities. The government says that the Maoists are active in 15 out of 28 states. And these include the major states. The Union Home Ministry says that 167 districts out total 600 districts in the country are covered by Maoists. This is a little less than 1/3 of India.

The Maoists in India follow the New Democratic Revolutionary method proved successful in China under the leadership of Mao. This method follows that the revolutionary movement must put priority on working in the areas where the state is weak. The Maoists work in the backward regions to smash the local reactionaries’ power and establish people’s power. They build revolutionary mass bases in these backward areas. This doesn’t mean that they don’t also work in the cities. In fact, in the Congress of the CPI (Maoist) held in January/February 2007, they decided to increase their work in the urban areas. They have produced a new document concerning work in the urban areas that analyses the work done in the last thirty years. This document sets out a strategy for developing the work in the urban areas.

Bhagatlives blogs about the recent political turmoil in Pakistan and the role of the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party:

In countries such as Pakistan,unlike Western European societies there have been no bourgeois democratic revolutions (such as the French revolution etc). In our part of the world, capitalism was introduced
through colonization, by the British.

In our country therefore, the proletariat is faced with the dual task of participating in and completing the democratic revolution through an alliance of the poor peasantry and the proletariat (the demands of
the poor peasantry being bourgeois democratic), and the proletariat can only then enhance the sweep of the revolutionary movement to lead the socialist revolution.

Bringing us to Nepal, the blogger at Monkey Smashes Heaven has this to say about the recent death of Azad:

[Update: This post, for some reason, has been taken off the website.  However, there is this post on the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Prachanda.]

Azad criticized Prachanda’s revisionism on a number of scores. Azad criticized Prachanda’s Kautsky-style reformism. Prachanda is criticized for abandoning Lenin’s theories of the state and dual power. Prachanda is criticized for opportunist obfuscation in the analysis of the class nature of the mainstream parties in Nepal. He is criticized for opportunistically confusing new democracy with parliamentarism alongside a semi-feudal, comprador mode of production. Azad criticizes Prachanda’s statements that prop up the Indian compradors and sabotaged people’s war in India. Prachanda is also criticized for not understanding the lessons of the Cultural Revolution.

Ninotchka Rosca blogs about the Communist Party Nepal (Maoist) and there progressive role in women’s liberation:

Gyanendra assumed the throne in the midst of a burgeoning people’s war waged primarily by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) or the CPN (M), with the twin political call to end the monarchy and liberate women. I confess that when I was first made aware of the latter, I nearly jumped out of my skin, having been engaged in debate for 20 years over class, gender and liberation.

Dipankar Basu blogs about the errors of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its role in developing capitalism:

This brief historical note has been occasioned by recent attempts to justify the championing of capitalism by a communist party – Communist Party of India (Marxist) – as the vehicle for its industrialization program in West Bengal, India. The justification, which argues for the necessity of capitalism by taking recourse to the distinction between the two stages of revolution, rests on an erroneous reading of international working class theory and practice. While it correctly posits the distinction between the two stages of social revolution, it does so mechanically, formally, and in a one-sided manner; the crucial and related question of the relationship between the two stages is not accorded the attention it deserves. That, in my opinion, is the primary source of error and leads to arguing for the necessity of “deepening and widening” capitalism as against initiating efforts to transcend it.

Update: And continuing on India, Bhupinder has this to say on class and poverty:

In this article (pdf) in the latest issue of EPW (alternate location), economists Arjun Sengupta et al contest the official levels of poverty and indicate that 75% of Indian population is poor, which is twice the official figure. This means a staggering 836 million as of 2004–05.

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I do hope this stirs up debate around the jingle of ‘trickle down’ economics that one has heard over the last two decades and recognize the darkness in the noon of unprecedented growth rates

Pratyush Chandra writes about the Communist Party of Nepal’s two-teared strategy:

By becoming part of the government that is non-committal to any radical change unless forced, the Maoists perhaps became vulnerable to all the pitfalls of power politics in a competitive set-up. However the greatest strength or safeguard for them is their recognition and commitment to two-line struggle within their own ranks - between the tendencies of compromise and of uninterrupted transformation. They are aware that their radicalism lies in intensifying this struggle at every level. If we find today an apparent inconsistency between the Maoists in the government and those on the streets, it is the open realisation of this two-line struggle, which tempers one another not allowing the former to settle with status quoism. Recent statements by Prachanda, Baburam Bhattarai and Mohan Baidya, where they stressed on the need for giving “top priority to the street struggle at this juncture”, reflect the Maoists’ resolution to remain as forces of democratisation, rather than a stability factor for a democracy of an elitist minority and the depoliticised majority.

With that (very) brief look at communism in South Asia Vidrohi blogs about the life of revolutionary Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh who was killed by the British in 1931:

Bhagat Singh started his political journey when new lines were emerging in the Indian polity. On one hand, the religious jargon was being introduced in the political rhetoric at a mass scale and seculars like Jinnah were getting sidelined. On the other hand, the revolutionary ideas of Lenin and Bolshevik Revolution were trickling into India. Bhagat Singh, like many others who were already disillusioned by Gandhi, was attracted towards experiment of workers and peasants of Russia.

Now to more contemporary analysis of the situation in South Asia we begin with a blog post from Rukhe Zehra Zaidi, who is a member of the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party :

In Pakistan, the plot of politics is often repeated and rehashed until the performance has become a fine tuned and much rehearsed drama on the ongoing tussle between democracy and the military. Dictators replace democrats, democrats negotiate and bargain with each other and the army, and the masses stand by much like the citizens of fair Verona caught in the crossfire of the fighting between the Montagues and the Capulets. And although the actors change on a seasonal basis, the transition is now almost seamless and perfect. Costume changes require minimal refitting as the Ayubs make way for the Zias and Musharrafs, and the MMA of today steps into the shoes of the Islamic Democratic Alliance of yesterday.

Satyavati blogs about the creation of Bhumika, a feminist magazine in India:

The bridging of knowledge from the macro level to the micro level through articles on women’s issues, the translation of papers/articles from English to Telegu on feminism or feminist theory, and making connections it to lived realities of women’s lives is key factor with potential for promoting gender equality. By providing an alternative discourse to understand and address women’s subordination, and generating discussion on a wide variety of issues, the seeds of questioning and challenging the ‘social given’ are germinated in the minds of women (and men). The issues addressed by Bhumika whether it is Globalisation or Agriculture or Handloom have a strong gender perspective – that both analyses and informs.

Finally, we end with Pardeep blogging about the exclusion of lower caste and Dalits from the history books by Indian upper caste elites:

Brahmin scholars have ignored all the Dalit- Bahujan revolutionaries like Ayyankali from Kerala who fought for the poor Dalits rights. Birsa Munda – Tribal leader from Bihar, Mahatma Joytiba Phule – father of social revolution, EVR Periyar – Great revolutionary from Tamil Nadu, but where all these stands in Indian history? None of these revolutionaries are history books, not much bother to write about all these. It seems Indians have forgotten the struggle of all the greatest revolutionaries. In same way, the women liberator, Savitribai Phule’s (1831-1897) B’day is not celebrated as Teacher’s day, who was the real liberator of poor section of society, 1st teacher who opened many schools for poor Dalits.

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Hero from Egypt

Cross-posted from The Blog and the Bullet.

Roobing blogs:

If your hero is Justin Timberlake or Santa Claus, Madonna or the Tooth Fairy… or any such legend or fluff merchant you’re wrong. Your hero is actually Hossam el-Hamalawy, currently reporting the uprising in Egypt, led by the textile workers of Mahalla.

Hossam reports:

The Textile Workers’ League activists Kamal el-Fayoumi and Kareem el-Beheiri, as well as a number of the Mahalla detainees, are currently undergoing interrogation at the Tanta Prosecutor’s Office. I have a report from an activist, which I couldn’t confirm yet, that Kareem was subject to severe beatings in police custody. The activist I spoke with said he heard this from one of the recently released detainees. We should know soon whether Kareem and the others were abused in custody or not when the lawyers who are attending the interrogation come out…

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For continuous updates on the detainees, please follow Tadamon, April 6th Strike, Abna2Masr and the HMLC blogs, especially as reports are coming out that those ordered by the prosecutor to be released in Alexandria and Mansoura, remain in police custody… Shehab Ismail also called me from NYC yesterday to say his sister Sarah who had been detained earlier in Cairo was still in police custody despite a release order…

160 Years Ago in February

Cross-posted from The Blog and the Bullet.

Bhupinder blogs:

This little book was first published 160 years ago on 21st February 1848.

The world has not stopped listening to it ever since.

Thanks to Marxists Internet archives, you can actually now listen to the audio.