"I was in Alexandria meeting some comrades on Monday of last week. I was followed by plain-clothes police who questioned the café owners about me, saying I was not from there.
It was like arriving in a warzone when I entered Cairo on Sunday.
The Egyptian revolution is Israel’s and the US’s worst nightmare. The US wants a "smooth" transition to another government that will do its bidding.
The Tunisian revolution has dramatically interrupted what passes for normality in the Arab world. Despite huge economic inequality, the hated domination of US imperialism, and the occasional assassination, the region suffers from astonishing political stagnation.
"No parents with a talented boy should feel that Eton is necessarily beyond their means."
Paul Foot, who went to Shrewsbury public school, once wrote, "The main characteristic of the school I went to was barbarism."
Eton was advertising for a pantry assistant earlier this month—offering £10,483 per year for a 40-hour week.
‘The Tories want to poison the NHS.’ Karen Reissmann, community psychiatric nurse and Unison health executive member
A socialist from Tunisia who was present during the uprising which toppled dictator Ben Ali will speak. Professor Phil Marfleet, who has recently returned from Egypt, will talk about the situation across the Middle East.
For more than a year police battered workers fighting for their rights, while the full force of the media and the government was used against those battling for justice. That was what happened 25 years ago when press baron Rupert Murdoch sacked 6,000 print workers.
Most histories of the Wapping strike talk about how Murdoch "fooled" the union leaders by saying his new plant was for a fictitious newspaper, called the London Post.
