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Shemali: AUB Guerrilla University
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Saturday, 8 September 2007. 1970 “Guerrilla U” -Newsweek Magazine. According to a reporter, “Politics at AUB today is tied directly to the Palestinian guerrilla movement… The aggressive young men and women who spring from AUB appear torn between admiration for their American-Style education and distrust of the country that offers it. 1971: The 28 day sit-in:. Excerpts: Day to Day Rundown of Developments. The Student Council issues a statement protesting the 10 percent increase tuition fees to be effectiv...
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Shemali: 14/02/10 - 21/02/10
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Thursday, 18 February 2010. 160;بين الطائفة والطبقة: مثقف. نشر في "المنشور" عدد ١٨ - كانون ثاني ٢٠١٠. ليس من وقت بعيد، كانت الاحتجاجات على الكهرباء وعلى الغلاء تتفاقم على أبواب الضاحية الجنوبية لمدينة بيروت، معقل حزب الله. في ذلك الحين، كَثر المثقفون والمحللون والخبراء الذين أبدوا الحماسة (الفكرية) والعزم (الثقافي) والحزم (السياسي) في قراءة هذه الأمور كونها استنفار لمن هم قليلي الحضارة والثقافة، فكيف بهؤلاء الاحتجاج على انقطاع الكهرباء والغلاء المعيشي بحرق الدواليب! عندها، قلنا أن هذه الإحتجاجات هي...
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Shemali: 30/12/07 - 06/01/08
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Friday, 4 January 2008. Peasant daughters and factory girls. Over 100 years ago a movement among women factory workers turned Lebanese society on its head. The amiyaa (factory girl) became a bi-word for independence, militancy and the struggle for change. The roots of this movement lay in the rise of silk industry and the development of capitalism. Lebanon, then a province of the Ottoman empire, proved to be ideal. The rise in silk manufacture drew the region into the orbit of French capitalism. On the b...
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Shemali: 06/04/08 - 13/04/08
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Wednesday, 9 April 2008. Iraq: glossing over the long defeat. My article, The Iraq surge: glossing over the long defeat. Has just been published in International Socialism journal. Iraq is now a different place from one year ago. We must do all we can to ensure that 2008 will bring even greater progress."1. George Bush, January 2008. An article in this journal three years ago warned of limits of the resistance:. The limits of the resistance became pronounced as Iraq became a battleground in several separ...
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Political Tourist: February 2007
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Monday, February 19, 2007. Miguel Angel Hernandez launches blog. I just found out that Miguel Angel Hernandez, the most prominent theoretician of the Partido Revolucion y Socialismo. In Venezuela has started a blog. It is wordy and in Spanish, but should still be of great interest to many of you ( click here. For a machine translation). As with John Molyneux's blog. Most of it seems to be articles written originally with other outlets in mind. Probably the strongest trade union confederation there. Is sp...
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Political Tourist: Atlanta to London
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Thursday, July 5, 2007. I started writing this on the Eurostar from Brussels, and I'm finishing it up the next afternoon at Marxism 2007. Although it was more diffuse, spread out over several other workshops, I was also very pleased to see that Solidarity. I see that about half of the folks quoted in Socialist Worker. S article on the forum. Were members of the ISO delegation, although of course none are named as such. But enough of that. Unfortunately I had to leave before the forum was over, so I misse...
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Political Tourist: Arrival in Beirut
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007. I've now had a day and a half in Beirut, and although it somwtimes feels like the air is trying to claw my eyes out, the weather is everything summer in the middle east should be, and there are even more traffic barriers and jumpy young guys with M-16s than ever, it still feels comfortable. Nothing terribly exciting. I met up last night with my friend M. Who is as big a curmudgeon as ever) and today with Ghassan from TYMAT. Posted at 3:20 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Shemali: Women were braver than a hundred men
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Wednesday, 9 January 2008. Women were braver than a hundred men. Socialist Review (UK) have feature by by Anne Alexander and Farah Koubaissy. On Egyptian women and the new strike movement. Resistance to the neoliberal policies of the Egyptian government has led to a strike wave involving thousands of workers. Anne Alexander describes how women have played a key role in the struggle and Farah Koubaissy visits a tobacco factory where one woman, Hagga Aisha, has led the strikes. Here are the women! They cha...
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Shemali: History of Salafism
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008. Since the earliest civilisations, the Arabian peninsula has been the home of nomadic pastoralists who used the camel, domesticated in about 1000 BCE, to travel from oasis to oasis in the search for pasture and water for their flocks. Over the centuries, these pastoralists traversed vast distances to trade between ancient empires, and by the 7th century CE, they established great merchant town of Mecca. Central to Ibn Wahab’s message was that the Tawhid, the union with god, c...
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