30/04/2012
Strike leadership's statement no 2
Higher National Leadership Committee of the Prisoners’ Struggle
The Leadership Committee of the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike issued a second statement about the continuing open hunger strike, emphasizing that the strike will continue until their demands are achieved and stating their willingness to die to achieve a decent life for themselves and their sisters and brothers.
21/04/2012
Generals sacrifice Mubarak’s right hand to get rid of Islamist frontrunners
by Wilhelm Langthaler
In the run-up to the presidential elections in Egypt major revulsions keep precipitating.
18/04/2012
Yet stuck in conflicts over Arab popular movements and regional geo-politics
by the Anti-imperialist Camp
The Anti-imperialist Camp (AIC) was one of the first organisations in Europe to adhere and to actively promote the “Global March to Jerusalem” (GMJ). Now it is time to draw a public balance sheet, which for us is comprehensively positive, and to reflect on the way to continue.
12/04/2012
Interview with Mohamed Wakid on the current stage of the Tahrir movement, the role of the military as well as the Muslim Brotherhood and the US line.
By Anna-Maria Steiner and Wilhelm Langthaler
Mohamed Wakid is a leading activist of Egypt's Tahrir left. He is member of the “Revolutionary Socialists” and leader of the “National Front” [Pan-arabist] trying to politically unify the revolutionary forces. He is co-editor of jadaliyya.com [“Dialectics” in Arabic], a pan-Arab website in English and Arabic that is trying to grasp the developments of Arab society and promoting dialogue with the international movement against the global oligarchy.
11/04/2012
6th - 30th March 2012
Asian People's Solidarity for Palestine
The Asian convoy was a remarkable collective venture & began when 27 Indonesians set of from Jakarta on the 6th of March 2012, for Karachi. At that moment, the Indian delegates from across the vast country & representing the vast diversity, were setting of in the trains to gather in New Delhi. Finally on the 9th of March 2012, 12 Indians & other activists, set off for the Wagah (India-Pakistan) border.
11/03/2012
23-26 August, 2012, Assisi, Italy
Combining the Arab with the incipient European revolt with speakers from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Italy, Germany, England and the USA.
06/03/2012
We, the Advisory Board of the Global March to Jerusalem, are alarmed and deeply troubled by the continuing repression of Palestinians in Jerusalem and by the deliberate and systematic attempts to expel and reduce the Christian and Muslim Palestinian population of the city as part of the policy called “Judaisation,” which is being applied to every part of historic Palestine.
26/02/2012
Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, George Galloway support the Global March to Jerusalem
Following list of endorsers is not complete but an extraction centered on Europe, for the Anti-imperialist Camp has been one central promotor of the campaign in Europe.
25/02/2012
Why the US may prefer a weakened Assad in place
by Abdel-Halim Qandil* (عبد الحليم قنديل)
Calling for a foreign intervention serves the Assad regime, betrays the revolutionary cause, and threatens Syria with disintegration. What is required is not to destroy Syria, but to destroy the regime and let Syria rise from the ashes, according to the wish of her people, who long for a democratic Arabic homeland.
24/02/2012
National Coordination Body leaves conference in Tunis for it is directed by Western interests
Statement from the delegation of the National Coordination Body to the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunisia