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A short piece exploring some common issues and objections when it comes to agitational material.

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"Mosireen is a non-profit media centre in Downtown Cairo born out of the explosion of citizen journalism and cultural activism in Egypt during the revolution. Armed with mobile phones and cameras, thousands upon thousands of citizens kept the balance of truth in their country by recording events as they happened in front of them, wrong-footing censorship and empowering the voice of a street-level perspective."

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"فى ظل عنفوان وبطش نظام مبارك الذى كان يسعى جاهدا لقمع أى حراك أو معارضه تكشف فساده كان هؤلاء يتحركون بيننا فى الشارع ربما لا تعرفهم إلا أنهم جنود مجهولون سبحوا ضد التيار وساندوا ضحايا التعذيب ومن تم التنكيل به على يد أجهزة مبارك الأمنية فساهموا فى تقويض عرشه وبعد سقوطه مازالوا يقدمون الدعم القانونى والحقوقى لأهالى الشهداء والمصابين والمتظاهرين المطالبين باستكمال الثورة"

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"سلّطت الثورة المصرية الضوء على دور الاشتراكيين الثوريين بوصفهم «العيال الجدعان» الذين لم يتوانوا عن الخروج للمطالبة بإسقاط حسني مبارك والمجلس العسكري، متوجين بذلك سنوات من التاريخ النضالي المغمور."

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It is an open secret that radical rebel George Abdallah, largely ignored by western media, was illegally sentenced to life in prison close to three decades ago. But French authorities continue to insist on keeping him behind bars, even after he has completed his prison term.

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I am MAD but then aren't we all? I am good at many things, excellent at a few and overwhelmingly screwy at many many more. I don't say the phrase " I am going to lose my mind" among others as I believe it is already gone.

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this is the first part of a two part piece outlining current moves by the authorities to attack the 'occupy' movement, starting with the imminent closure of the decade-long protests in parliament square.

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this follows on from my earlier piece with more background and history on the parliament square campaigns and the repression towards them, more detail on PASRA and tomorrow's high court case, the extension of the new 'global war on camping' (GWOC) as an assault on the 'occupy' movement, and some ideas of positive actions to take in the immediate future.

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“Nightmares of Capitalism, Pipe Dreams of Democracy” serves as a prehistory of the Occupy movement, offering context for the form it has taken and the challenges ahead for all who sincerely desire social transformation.

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Even charitable work can be a sensitive matter in Arab regimes if it highlights the state's failure to provide basic services

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Egyptian soldiers and police stormed pro-democracy offices on Thursday, targeting groups critical of the military rulers while reinforcing activists' charges that the military's harsh tactics are no different from those of the deposed regime of Hosni Mubarak.

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Some of the women behind the revolution in Egypt

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John discusses the work of Solfed, a revolutionary union initiative and the British section of the International Workers Association.

How Solfed brings the ideas and politics of anarchy into the UK workspace, and how he himself came to anarchism.

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Dozens of anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested Sunday in Texas, where they clashed with police over food tables, and in Oregon, where officers dragged them out of a park in an affluent neighborhood.

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A major victory has been won. For only the second time in Oakland’s recent political history, mass action in the street has forced the hand of city government.

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The impact of social media on revolutionary movements like Egypt’s has been hashed out to the precipice of cliché, with scholars still puzzling over how networks online and off contributed to the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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It is sometimes said that while anti-capitalist and alternative globalization movements are clear on what we do not want, we are less clear on what we do want (socialism, anarchism, specifics).

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All these years,” she said, “we’ve been organizing marches, rallies… And if only 45 people show up, you’re depressed, if you get 300, you’re happy. Then one day, 200,000 people show up. And you’re incredulous: on some level, even though you didn’t realize it, you’d given up thinking that you could actually win.

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"It all started with an e-mail. On July 13 Adbusters magazine sent out a call to its 90,000-strong list proclaiming a Twitter hashtag (#OccupyWallStreet) and a date, September 17. It quickly spread among the mostly young, tech-savvy radical set, along with an especially alluring poster the magazine put together of a ballerina atop the Charging Bull statue, the financial district's totem to testosterone."

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