Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
Middle Eastern anarchism
[adapted from a post at Poumista] Two interesting items: The colour brown: de-colonising anarchism and challenging white hegemony by Budour Hassa in Random Shelling. Extract: The appearance of the Egyptian Black Bloc in Cairo’s streets in January 2013 triggered gullible excitement in Western anarchist circles. Little thought was given to the Egyptian Black Bloc’s political vision – or lack […]
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Tags: anarchism, Black bloc, Cairo, Egypt, Palestine, Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square graffiti
The revolutionary graffiti is being cleansed from Tahrir Square. Here are some glimpses of what’s there, from Homsi Anarchist: Homsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist A.C.A.B #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/ABNRoITa 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/0E1I14WZ 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist “Pigs” #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/83BMx4JG 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist @ingili3 hahhaa the term goes way back according to herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police-related_slang_terms … 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist “Resist the oppressor” #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/6lCtZtdI 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist To the State: […]
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Tags: 2011 Egyptian revolution, Egypt, graffiti, Tahrir Square
Read these two posts by Louis Proyect: “Qaddafi and the Left” and “Qaddafi and the Monthly Review” (re-posted at Kasama). The complexities of imperialism and anti-imperialism: Andrew Coates reviews Mark Curtis on the British state and Islamism; Shiraz Socialist on Gadafi’s “anti-imperialist” friends. Also: Carl Packman: Gaddafi’s socialist supporters His authoritarian dictatorship of the last forty years should spell out […]
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Tags: Anti-imperialism, Daniel Ortega, Egypt, Fidel Castro, Gerry Healey, hugo chavez, International Marxist Tendency, Libya, Middle East, Muammar al-Gaddafi, North Africa, revolutions, Third worldism, WRP
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First, for my one regular reader, Who Cares?, some coverage of the revolution in Egypt, extracted from BobFromBrockley: Islamism: Alan A reports on the secular, liberal nature of the movement for freedom in Egypt so far, with a cautiously optimistic assessment of the chances of the Muslim Brotherhood gaining the upper hand from the chaos. He […]
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Tags: antisemitic incidents, antisemitism, Bay Area National Anarchists, Community Security Trust, Egypt, Green Party, Muslim Brotherhood, Noam Chomsky, Werner, Ziocentrism, Zionism
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An introduction to council communism. // Wonderful photographs of workers rising up in Egypt last April. // Ronald Radosh and Caitlin Flanagan on the outrageous parolling of baby-killer and fascist insect Sara Jane Olson aka Kathleen Soliah. See also Radosh on Mark Rudd. // The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Israel. Rosa – red, green and […]
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Tags: AFA, Antifa, Caitlin Flanagan, council communism, Die Linke, Egypt, George Galloway, International Solidarity Movement, ISM, Israel, Kathleen Soliah, Ron Radosh, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Sara Jane Olson, Symbionese Liberation Army, Tristan Anderson
Anti-National Translation 