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Egypt’s ‘full military coup:’ How it happened

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Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was ousted in a military coup Wednesday, with security forces forbidding him from leaving the country, arresting a number of top Muslim Brotherhood officials, and raiding media outlets in the midst of broadcasts. Saad El-Katani, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Foreign Justice Party (FJP), and Rashad al-Bayoumi, one of the […]

36 dead, over 1,000 injured in clashes between Egyptian protesters

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Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of Egypt’s national ambulance service said that 36 people were killed on Friday during violent clashes between supporters and opponents of deposed President Morsi. 1,138 more were injured, according to the Health Ministry. Some of the worst violence was reported in Alexandria, where 14 people lost their lives. Tens of thousands […]

Egyptian forces shoot dead over 70 Mursi supporters

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Egyptian security forces shot dead at least 70 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Mursi on Saturday, his Muslim Brotherhood said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to tackle “violence and terrorism.” Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad said the shooting started shortly before pre-dawn morning prayers on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in […]

Egyptian Junta Imposes Martial Law Amid Bloody Crackdown

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By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier The bloody massacre and imposition of emergency rule carried out yesterday by Egypt’s military junta testifies to the ruthlessness of efforts of the Egyptian ruling class and its imperialist backers in Washington and Europe to drown the Egyptian revolution in blood. The army’s ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on July 3 […]

Political Cartoon: Slaughterhouse of Egypt

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Filed under: Egypt, Imperialism, International, Media & Culture, Police Brutality, Political Cartoons, Reactionary Watch, U.S. Military

Islamists Debate Their Next Move in Tense Cairo

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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — Gathering Thursday morning around a mosque used as a morgue for hundreds killed the day before, many Islamists waited confidently for a surge of sympathetic support from the broader public. But it failed to materialize. With their leaders jailed or silent, Islamists reeled in shock at the worst mass killing […]

Venezuela Withdraws Its Ambassador from Egypt

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Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced today that he would withdraw the country’s ambassador from Egypt because of the conflict there and confrontations between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the defacto government, which has seen over 700 people killed. “We have witnessed a blood bath in Egypt…We warned that the coup against Morsi was unconstitutional. […]

Egypt Court Orders Mubarak Release from Jail

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Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be released from jail on Thursday after prosecutors cleared him in a corruption case earlier this week, a lawyer tells Reuters agency. On Wednesday, a criminal court in Cairo upheld a petition from Mubarak’s lawyer demanding the release of the former president since there were no further legal grounds […]

Dangerous Crossroads. A War on Syria, Prelude to a World War III Scenario?

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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, …a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. …[to] be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention, … Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and […]

Israel confirms plan to deport African migrants to Uganda

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Interior minister says Israel will set a deadline by which ‘infiltrators’ will have to leave ‘of their own free will’ Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to Africa via Uganda, officials said. Israel regards most of the Africans as illegal visitors in search of jobs, and largely rejects […]

Decriminalizing Bashar al Assad: Towards a More Effective Anti-War Movement

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By Carlos Martinez On 10 April 1993, one of the greatest heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle, Chris Hani, was gunned down by a neo-fascist in an attempt to disrupt the seemingly inexorable process of bringing majority rule to South Africa. Although direct... Read More ›

Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World

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by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people... Read More ›

The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon

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Former Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Ariel Sharon died on Jan 11th, 2014, after having spent the last eight years in a coma. He was 85 years old. Sharon was directly involved in war crimes and massacres throughout his... Read More ›

Editorial: Get off that Bandwagon

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by George Bialek If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well... Read More ›

Final Resolution of the 19th Plenary of the ICMLPO

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In the Middle of the World, in an atmosphere of internationalist comradeship and solidarity, the members of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) met to share and discuss analysis and experiences. We arrived at resolutions that will... Read More ›

Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations

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In the 21st century the world continues to be divided. The contradiction between Labor and Capital in all spheres is the division that reflects the antagonism between labor and the increasing socialization of production on the one hand, and the... Read More ›

The Rise and Fall of Third Worldism – Part 1

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PART ONE: “Two, Three, many Vietnams”: National Liberation and the Rise of the Third World (1945 – 1991) Asia, Africa and Latin America in the Early Years of the Century With the exception of Latin America, and several noteworthy cases... Read More ›

Venezuela Withdraws Its Ambassador from Egypt

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Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced today that he would withdraw the country’s ambassador from Egypt because of the conflict there and confrontations between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the defacto government, which has seen over 700 people killed. “We... Read More ›

Samir Amin: A Socialist Devoid of a Proletariat

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By Aydın Çubukçu Originally published in Evrensel (08/21/18) What is called a “theoretical impasse” is actually the impasse of practice. The thing Samir Amin claimed there was a deficiency of in the course of the struggle he waged with all means... Read More ›
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