Egypt

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‘What makes the lid blow off?’ Fanon asks in ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, reflecting on the revolution against French colonialism in Algeria 50 years ago and thinking about the future ‘African revolution.’ In Egypt, a country where 50 per cent of the population is under 30 years old and which has

Imagine that for 24 years you don’t ever have hope of things getting better. Mubarak is ruling Egypt with an iron fist, while the people are captured in a cycle of paralysing fear and hopeless apathy.

Today the victory of the peoples of North Africa over one of the most repressive police states in the world is shifting the balance of power in international politics; it is also strengthening people’s power against exploitation, sexism, domination, police repression and those forms of rule that

It's Thursday 10 February, and we are waiting for what we think will be the last speech by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his resignation. We become tenser, as his speech was scheduled for 18:00, but we have to wait for hours.

One of my most enduring memories of Cairo is sitting in a taxi in the suffocating summer heat of 2008, getting ready to return to the hotel after an afternoon sightseeing in Old Cairo.

Each year, in order to oppose the corporate agenda of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos, tens of thousands of social activists gather to define why “Another World is Possible!” But it’s impossibly good luck to combine this plea with an actual case of democratic revolution.

‘Everyone should start forming unions & labor associations now. If we don’t build those now, we’ll be fucked by the regime soon.’ - Hossam el-Hamalawy on Twitter, Sunday, February 13, 2011.

Let us be clear from the outset. There has been no revolution in Egypt…yet.