Right, capitalism do not really give a damn on anything but capital class interests. After the American taxpayers had to pay for the corporations’ mistakes in the bail out plan, now they have to pay for new agreement mistakes. The governmental agency FDIC decided that the government will guarantee the buyers of failed banks.
I know the crisis hurts, but they only making it hurt people and the businessmen who caused this mess will get away with it easily. Damn it!
The US Congress discusses these days a new regulation proposed by Sen. John Rockefeller to allow the government the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet in emergency!
Show us your real face, America!
Today, 5 workers from Shbeen Textile factory decided to go on hunger strike after they got fired. The factory administration decided to fire them after their involvement in the strike the workers held in the last March. The whole story here.
State Security forces broke into the Iftar the Muslim Brothers organized in Mansoura yesterday. The forces confiscated all food materials that would be used in the Iftar. They claimed that these materials were ‘expired’. Read the report here.
“Dictatorship? Nooooooo!” one of my friends said when I talked about that well-known Marxian concept. But, is it a dictatorship actually?
1- What is democracy? In the Western concept, democracy is the people ruling of state. Not the whole people but the ‘majority’ of people. When we have an election with two candidates, we choose one of them to run the state. If the first candidate wins the election with 55% of votes, this means that the 55% of people only rules. In another term, we are practicing the dictatorship of the 55% against the remaining 45%. So, in somehow, the democracy is some sort of dictatorship in its core.
2- In western societies, its not even the dictatorship of majority. To hold a campaign. you need to have millions of dollars(The US presidential campaigns in 2008 spent about $1.5 billion). So, you need to be a millionaire or have strong relationships with millionaires to make them fund your campaign. This also limits the ability of most people to participate in this ‘democratic’ process.
We have to put in mind that businessmen only funds campaigns as it would become a political leverage in the future.
So, the recent western democracies are not even about the dictatorship of majority. It’s about the dictatorship of elite that owns money and run businesses.
3- Now, we can understand the dictatorship of proletariat. Dictatorship of proletariat means practicing a real democracy of the majority, the real majority without the recent forms of personal interests. It’s about giving the power to the people and demolishing all kind of personal interests. So now, and only now, we can say that we have a real democracy.
The Mysterious Eleventh Torture Technique: Prolonged Diapering?
Take a look at Appendix E, Tenet’s January 28, 2003 memorandum on guidelines for both “standard” and “enhanced” interrogations. Tenet’s list of “enhanced” techniques, you’ll notice, number eleven:
These techniques are, [sic] the attention grasp, walling, the facial hold, the facial slap (insult slap), the abdominal slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation beyond 72 hours, the use of diapers for prolonged periods, the use of harmless insects, the water board
When workers run the state | SocialistWorker.org
The CIA proposed in 2002 to the Justice Department the use of eleven “enhanced interrogation technique. These techniques are the attention grasp, walling, the facial hold, the facial slap (insult slap), the abdominal slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation beyond 72 hours, the use of diapers for prolonged periods, the use of harmless insects, the water board. The justice department approved for ten techniques and declined one. The declined one was “The use of diapers for prolonged times”. Read the whole report here.
This morning, Tanta flax workers demonstrated in front of Al-Gharbiea Headquarter after they continued striking for about 90 days. They demanded the re-nationalization of the factory again and get their rights back from the Saudi investor who bought it.
بزوغ يهودية إسرائيل وأفول عروبة فلسطين؟
24 hours ago, the Mansoura university’s residence students who stay these days in the students’ campus went on a hunger strike as the administration decided to reduce the content of their meals. All students decided not to eat until the meal is back to the normal content and size. The administration got afraid fro escalating the issue so they decided to yield to students’ demands.
It seems a pretty rocking start of the new educational year.
Rumors were just spreading that Egyptians do not like to work at all. The shocking truth is that this is just opposite to the reality. A study showed that the Egyptian worker spends about 2373 hours annually working making him on the top of the list of the workers with the longest working time…
Sgt. Travis Bishop is an American solider refusing to be deployed to Afghanistan. Read the full story here.
Robert Kagan - Is Obama Really Waging a 'War of Necessity' in Afghanistan? - washingtonpost.com
Aftonbladet, a leading Swedish newspaper, reported that Israeli soldiers kill Palestinians to take their organs. The report cited a lot of stories about the kidnapping and organs snatching of a lot of Palestinians.
The Israel Ministry Cabinet responded by also a typical Israeli action: banning any Swedish journal from entering Israel till they ‘apologize’.
Chris Harman writes in International Socialism journal an awesome article on the classical Marxian concept: “The Tendency Of The Profit Rate To Decline”. Here are some quotes:
To read the whole article, click here.
Privatization by other means: How the Public Transport sector was “murdered”
سحور احتجاجي أمام مجلس الشوري لصحفيي الشعب | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر
Obama addressed the Muslim world congratulating Ramadan. But practically, he said another strong ‘hi’ to the Muslim world by killing dozens of them:
(This post inspired by 3arabawy).
In solidarity with the ongoing struggle of real estate tax collectors and their fight for their independent union, the Public Service International (PSI) expressed their sympathies with this struggle in this statement.
After the strong fight of Egypt Post workers against the administration demanding for their rights, the postal workers in Britain went on strike protesting against the new jobs cuts.
Between the struggle of mail workers in Egypt and Britain, the revolution keeps rocking everywhere…
“Great paralysis”, said a report by Centre for Trade Unions and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) describing the effects of the strike the drivers of the Public Transport Institution held yesterday and continuing today.
Drivers are protesting the decision taken by the institution to put the money paid for traffic violations on drivers. Driver no. 6346 have to pay around 11,000 pounds for these violations while the average salary for each drivers is about 500 pounds!
They say that they would go on a hunger-strike if no one listened to them.
Wish them all luck…
Update: The strike has been suspended after the government yielded to all the demands… Well done comrades.
The wheel of labor struggle is going pretty well all over the world these days. In Egypt, Real Estate tax collectors are escalating their protests against the betrayal of the Minister of Finance. Also, Nile Cottons factory workers are on strike. This is besides the struggle of Mahalla and Tanta workers and Justice experts.
In South Korea, Workers are protesting their low standards of living and the effects of the credit crisis.
The workers are not stopping in India and Britain also.
Keep rocking, REVOLUTION…
Today is the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 140,000 people killed in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki in minutes by the US just to be the new emperors of the world. In that anniversary, we should not forget while mourning: Fuck The Capital System that Value Nothing But Money.
The independent union of the real estate tax collectors are demonstrating in front of the parliament right now denouncing the betrayal of the agreement with the Finance Minister last Thursday.
Permanent link to Lieberman: Attack May be Only Option on Iran
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وصلة دائمة لـ بيان رقم 5 للجنة العليا للمطالبة بحقوق موظفي البريد
وصلة دائمة لـ ندوة جماهيرية:عمال الغزل والنسيج بعد الخصخصة ..عايزين مصانعنا ترجع لينا
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جميل مطر: أحمر الشفاة .. كم عذبت وأمتعت
Once again, the politics in the US is proving that it’s not about willing and good intentions of one person. The dialectics in the political process there is so complicated and can’t be understood unilaterally. During the campaign Obama held to win the elections, he promised a lot of things. On the international level, He promised to end the American occupation in Iraq and starts a new friendly diplomatic policy with the whole world. Internally, he promised the Americans to destroy all kinds of political corruption in Washington, to force corporations to take the responsibility of their losses in the credit crisis and stop the perennial decisions of different past administrations to take the side of financiers. Also, he promised them to do the unthinkable: “a health care system for all Americans”.
Now, after seven months of president Obama in office, his promises have been broken one after another. He didn’t end the Iraqi occupation without even a sign of a near end. He used a different diplomacy from Bush but it’s “gunboats diplomacy” that negotiations and sweet talks go on under the threat of gunboats surrounding the beach!
Internally, he did not hold the CEOs responsible for their losses and started to ‘donate’ billions of dollars in a bail-out plan to save capitalism. Those billions provided by taxes paid by the American taxpayers. And finally he is breaking his word in the matter of health care system.
The New York Times published yesterday a report on “The Lobbying Web” that actively operates these days to force Obama to alter his plan of health care system to all Americans. The report said that the health industry interests spent $133 million in the second quarter of 2009 alone to stop Obama’s plan. They spent this massive amount of money (despite the credit crisis I must say!) on TV ads to convince the public that the plan would not be valid, lobbying at congressmen to make augmentation of alterations to the plan.
This report would add a lot to you in understanding the political process in the US. Besides, it truly prove what we said earlier: Obama will not do anything new even if he wanted to.
Israel evicts Palestinians from Jerusalem homes | International Solidarity Movement Palestine
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: the "right to bomb niggers"
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