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Samir Amin: Egypt, the US, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Workers and Peasants

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Though living primarily in Dakar and Paris, the noted leftist political-economist, Samir Amin is Egyptian by birth and was once a member of one or other Communist party there. He also once wrote, under an assumed name, a Marxist book on Egypt (1950s?). The piece below is probably more interesting on the US and the MB than it is on the workers and peasants, about…

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Added by peter waterman on February 3, 2011 at 22:29 — No Comments

[Patrick Bond] Helmi Sharawy/Azza Khalil: The Popular Uprisings in North Africa (2007)

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Bearing in mind this was apparently written three years ago 

it does suggest the value of critical and committed analysis, rather

than waiting for any Wikileaks, Post-Facto BBC analyses, etc. Note 

the passing references to unions, which suggests to me that up to

now these have been either regime-dominated or marginalised…

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Added by peter waterman on January 30, 2011 at 0:00 — No Comments

Via Campesina (an international farmers/landless movement) at World Social Forum, Dakar

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Does this provoke ideas about what a labour alternative to the Eurocentred ICFTU programme would look like at some WSF of the future?…

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Added by peter waterman on January 29, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments

The Internationalism of Labour's Others

Peter Waterman sez:

This is an introduction to a paper the rest of which is to be hopefully found in the Attached File listed at its end. This is a contribution to the exchange with Orsan Senalp (and should therefore also be in his Social Network Unionism Group page when I find out how to copy it there).…

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Added by peter waterman on December 6, 2010 at 16:51 — 1 Comment