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Ibrahim Sahari, a journalist arrested at the Cairo Book Fair for handing out anti-government leaflets, has been released by the Egyptian authorities following international protests.

Two Egyptian socialist activists arrested on 28 January at the Cairo International Book Fair have been released on bail, campaigners in Cairo told Socialist Worker.

After more than seven decades in the Egyptian Communist movement, Youssef Darwish’s hopes for socialism are as strong as ever. As a lawyer he represented trade unions during the great workers’ struggles of the 1940s. As a political organiser he worked tirelessly to maintain the communist movement’s independence during the 1950s and 1960s.

BETWEEN 24 and 27 March this year Cairo will host a meeting of activists from the Arab world and the international movements against war and globalisation.

EGYPTIAN SECURITY forces arrested three socialist activists on Friday of last week.

THE AGENDA for the third Cairo Conference, which takes place from 24-27 March in the Egyptian capital, has just been finalised. The International Campaign Against US Aggression has organised the conference against war and globalisation. The aim of the third Cairo Conference is to encourage much wider participation.

ANTI-WAR activists from around the world are calling for delegates from the movements against the war and globalisation to go to the third Cairo conference called by the International Campaign against US aggression.

A PROTEST in Egypt on Friday of last week defied the wrath of the security forces.

"EVERY TIME a worker from the factory dies, it is always from cancer—lung cancer, bone cancer, or leukemia,"says Shaban Khaled.

WORKERS EMPLOYED by the Egyptian-Spanish Company for Asbestos Products in Cairo began a sit-in at the company on Saturday 20 November.

Tanks rolled onto the streets of Cairo, Egypt, last Monday after student protests erupted across the country.

WHICH country has the most pyramids from ancient times? Of course, everyone knows the answer is Egypt—except that actually it’s Sudan.