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Tens of thousands of brave revolutionaries filled Arba’in Square in Suez during last week’s "Friday of determination" protests. The demands of the demonstrators in Suez are summed up by the call for retribution for the killers of the martyrs, speeding up the trial of Hosni Mubarak and his corrupt henchmen, and the purge of the interior ministry and the judiciary.

Sharaf’s speech and the policy of trembling hands Last night’s speech by prime minister Essam Sharaf confirmed what many already did not doubt: that this government is not, and will not be a government of the revolution. Despite the claims by the Prime Minister that he listened to the demands of the revolutionaries in the Tahrir Squares of the all the cities of Egypt, his speech came several months too late, and does not even meet our minimum demands.

Kamal Abu Aita announced that the newly-formed Egyptian Independent Union Federation (EIUF) is backing the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS.

Kamal Abu Aita, the president of the Egyptian tax collectors’ union (above), brought solidarity to the picket line at Euston Tower in central London.

Leading trade unionist and bus worker Ali Fattouh was found not guilty in Egypt last Saturday of "bringing his employer into disrepute".

This CD brings us songs from this spring’s uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

As the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin said, "There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen."

An official banner celebrating Egypt’s Revolution at Cairo Airport tells of "Egyptians making history again… what else is new?"

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has moved in on Egypt. It has agreed a $3 billion loan with the military council government.

There were young and old, men and women at the meeting.

The revolutionary process in Egypt is deepening. There is now a protracted struggle going on to shape Egypt's future, as the ruling Military Council seeks to counter militancy from below. Phil Marfleet looks at Act II of the Egyptian Revolution

Egyptian socialist Sameh Naguib looks at the role of Islamists in the Egyptian Revolution