Archive for the ‘Egyptian revolution’ Category
Posted by seumasach on December 14, 2012
Eric Draitser
Stop Imperialism
11th December, 2012
The complexities of the Arab Spring and the struggle for political freedom throughout the Arab world should not obscure what has now become an absolutely essential understanding for all anti-imperialists: the Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most powerful weapons of the Western ruling class in the Muslim world. While that may be a difficult pill for some to swallow for emotional or psychological reasons, one need look no further than the insidious role the organization is playing in Syria and the abuses of power and human rights of the government of Egypt. In the US-NATO sponsored war against the Assad government, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as the leading western-sanctioned force, the avant-garde of the imperialist assault. While, in Egypt, President Morsi and the Brotherhood government seek to destroy what had been, little more than a year ago, the promise of the revolution.
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Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2012
Hani Shukrallah
Al-Ahram
6th December, 2012
To chants of “Command, command oh Badei, you command and we obey,” the Muslim Brotherhood in power was fast mutating into the very caricature of itself as painted by its bitterest enemies. Its easily mobilized, effortlessly bussed loyalists, happy to throng in their thousands in typically malevolent and horrifyingly brutal defense of policies and decisions they knew nothing about, now stood in stark contrast to the “new Egyptians” born of the revolution they made – a brave, free and rebellious people who bow to no one, and for whom the very notion of “obedience” is anathema.
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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2012
Al-Ahram
27th November, 2012
Hundreds gather on Tahrir Square to protest President Morsi’s Constitutional Declaration; Muslim Brotherhood, Salafist Calling and Gamaa Al-Islamaya demonstrate in Alexandria despite Brotherhood cancelling rally
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Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2012
Al Ahram
23th November, 2012
Mass rally takes place in Tahrir to oppose president Mohamed Morsi’s constitutional declaration; violence between protesters and police continue in nearby streets for fifth day
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Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2012
Al-Ahram
24th November, 2012
The subdued nature of Cairo’s underground was interrupted Friday when the train stopped at the station located in the iconic Tahrir Square. A man in his 30s was berating Egypt President Mohamed Morsi with little opposition from passengers.
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Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
24th November, 2012
Catching the tumult of a revolution on camera is virtually impossible — especially a revolution like the one Egypt which rolls on with no end in view. Another revolution in revolution is unfolding. The Chinese cameramen have caught some fantastic visuals as the banks of the Nile begin to heave again with seamless human passions. The Xinhua photo album is here.
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Posted by seumasach on November 21, 2012
RT
21st November, 2012
Al-Jazeera’s office overlooking historical Tahrir Square in Cairo was firebombed by protesters as the third day of violent anti-government demonstrations rages on in Egypt’s capital.
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Posted by seumasach on November 17, 2012
Political forces in Egypt call for the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty to be immediately revised, saying Egypt is no longer a ‘strategic treasure’ for the ‘enemy’
Al-Ahram
17th November, 2012
Egypt’s political forces, including the majority Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), demand the Egyptian government and president immediately move to revise the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty amid Israel’s ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2012
Nasserist Hamdeen Sabbahi calls for a constitution that represents all Egyptians; praises Tahrir protests as part of Egypt’s ‘unfinished revolution’
Al-Ahram
20th October, 2012
Nasserist Hamdeen Sabbahi has vowed, during a press conference for his Popular Egyptian Current on Friday in Damietta, to back President Mohamed Morsi if he proves that he is working for poor, adding that he refuses any form of “Brotherhoodisation” of the state.
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2012
Al-Ahram
17th October, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood has admitted for the first time that its members took part in Friday’s clashes in Tahrir Square.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood joins protest against it
Two protests will be held on Friday in Tahrir Square by two different sets of political forces, Islamists and non-Islamists, with two different sets of demands
Al-Ahram
11th October, 2012
Egyptian political parties and movements announced a couple of weeks ago that they will organise what they believe to be the first true million-man protest after the presidential elections in Egypt, uniting non-Islamist forces and political parties in Tahrir Square. Still, with the latest court verdict in the “Battle of the Camel” trial and calls from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and other Islamist parties for protesting in the same place, it seems there will be two protests with two sets of different demands.
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