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 […]
In January 2026, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as Mayor of New York City, in an abandoned subway station beneath City Hall, placing his hand on two copies of the Qur’an. Bernie Sanders was present, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a speech in which she declared that the city had chosen courage over fear, and prosperity […]
By Faris Hakim There is a dangerous theoretical trap that much of the left falls into: to begin with Marx’s tools and end with Bismarck’s results. The dependency school did not stumble into this trap by accident, but by virtue of a structural methodological flaw at the very core of its project, a flaw that […]
For the second time within a single year—following the “12-Day War” in June 2025—Israel and the USA launched a military attack against Iran in late February 2026. Just like with the genocide in Gaza, Germany here is also involved in this Imperialist-Zionist aggression against Iran. Germany’s Role in the Illegal War Waged by Israel and […]
In January 2026, the first-ever Academic Boycott Conference took place in Germany. Over 30 student and academic groups came together in Berlin to deepen debates about the complicity of Israeli academia in the genocide in Gaza, but also to discuss strategy and tactics within the Palestine solidarity movement. In the last two and a half […]
By Alan Tadros Following Sisi’s election in 2015, he attended Christmas Mass at the Cathedral. At the time, both national and international media widely reported that this marked the first time in modern Egyptian history that an Egyptian president had entered our Cathedral. His visit and the emotions it triggered in me and my family […]
Over eight million people took to the streets for the “No Kings” Demonstrations across the United States over the weekend. In 3300 cities and towns, demonstrators protested against Trump, rallying under the slogan “No Kings, No War, No Millionaires” and demanding: No ICE raids in US cities, no war against Iran, and no attacks on […]
A racist security campaign began in February in Egypt. Plainclothes police officers fanned out across Cairo, targeting Syrians, Sudanese, South Sudanese, and nationals of other sub-Saharan African countries. In one episode the National Security surrounded of the home of Egyptian human rights defender Nour Khalil, director of a platform for refugees in Egypt, over his […]
We are documenting a speech held by a comrade at a demonstration in Berlin on International Women’s Day: On today’s 8th of march we gather against feminist imperialism to say: Western imperialism has always used the mask of feminism for its brutal wars. From “saving Afghan women” by bombing their cities and villages and murdering […]
Israel Halts Oil Exports to Egypt as a “Security Measure” By Alwaan Tadros The Zionist State invoked the “force majeure” clause in its energy supply contract with Egypt to halt gas exports indefinitely, shortly after its joint military strikes on Iran alongside the U.S. Egypt now faces severe challenges meeting domestic energy demands. The clause […]
