The fascist Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) Party emerged as the strongest force in state elections in the Eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt on September 6, winning a landslide victory with 44% of the votes. These are the best results fascists have gotten since the Nazi dictatorship. Why is the AfD so strong, what […]
In light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and migration from war, economic instability and political strife across the region, the European Union (EU) sees the Egyptian military dictatorship as a useful partner in crime. Over thirteen years have passed since Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el Sisi couped his way to power. In this time […]
Wir dokumentieren hiermit die folgende Erklärung: Für die unverzügliche medizinische Behandlung und Freilassung des Gewerkschaftsführers Shady Mohamed: Wir, die unterzeichnenden politischen und Menschenrechtsgruppen, Gewerkschafter und Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens, verfolgen mit großer Sorge die anhaltende Untersuchungshaft des Gewerkschaftsführers Shady Mohamed im Rahmen des Verfahrens Nr. 1644 von 2024, bekannt als „der Fall des Palästina-Banners“, die […]
The German state is aiding and abetting the Israeli genocide in Gaza for almost three years now. Ideologically, politically and militarily, Germany has remained on Israel’s side unconditionally. Germany remains the second-largest weapons deliverer to Israel. All export licenses for arms exports to Israel issued up to August 2025 (amounting to almost half a billion […]
We are hereby documenting the Joint Statement for the Immediate Treatment and Release of the Trade Union Leader Shady Mohamed We, the undersigned political and human rights groups, labor and public figures, are following with great concern the continued pretrial detention of trade union leader Shady Mohamed pending Case No. 1644 of 2024, known as […]
Last week, Germany’s upper house of parliament (Bundesrat) gave a green light to a law that sees the denial of “Israel’s right to exist” as a criminal offense that could cost “culprits” up to five years in prison. Back in April, the Christian Democrat (CDU) Justice Minister and State Prime Minister of the central German […]
By Fares Hakim On the evening of 4 July 2026, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi appeared before the nation from the imposing seat of the State Strategic Command in the New Administrative Capital. In a single address, he distilled the entire project of his regime. The speech deserves attention not because it offered anything new, but because it […]
By Salama Mansour & Shoukry Samir Halfway between Cairo and Suez, some 60 kilometres from the centre of Cairo, concrete is being poured across a stretch of land measuring 170,000 feddans—an expanse twice the size of Cairo itself, or roughly equal to the historic heart of Greater Cairo, encompassing Cairo, Giza, and Shubra El Kheima. […]
By: Fares Hakim In August 2013, only days after the Rabaa al-Adawiya massacre, when over a thousand Egyptians were killed within the space of a few hours, Rifaat al-Said—the long-time leader of the Tagammu Party and one of the oldest figures of the Egyptian left—made his now infamous declaration: “I love El-Sisi because, on 30 […]
By Hossam el-Hamalawy The coup of 3 July 2013 did not descend upon Egypt like a bolt from the blue. Nor was it simply a meticulously orchestrated military conspiracy, conceived and executed behind closed doors. It emerged instead from the convergence of several forces: the Muslim Brotherhood’s crisis of governance; the state apparatus recovering its […]
