Like many nations worldwide, Venezuela has been hit by Covid-19. Nonetheless, to a lesser degree than Europe and the United States. As of 7 April, 165 cases and 65 deaths were reported. To prepare for a potential medical emergency, the Venezuelan (...)
“The humanitarian and altruistic dimensions of the events could make them the stuff of movie scenes. The crew of the MS Braemar, owned by the British Fred Olsen cruise line, spent several days sailing the Caribbean with passengers aboard showing (...)
On 10 November, Bolivia's indigenous progressive President Evo Morales was forced by the military to resign his post after a 13-year-long presidency. “A coup took place on 10 November,” commented Nino Pagliccia in Counterpunch. “The fact that the (...)
Only two days prior to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) vote on 7 November to end the “economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba”, the Trump administration flexed its muscles by expelling from its territory (...)
From 1960 to the present, Havana has shamed the industrial world through the extent of its humanitarianism. Put simply, no country or organisation, no matter how wealthy or powerful, can match Cuba's record in this regard. (Cuban Medical (...)
“Although US President Barack Obama took the historic initiative to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and dismissed his country's long-standing blockade as an ‘outdated approach' and a ‘failed policy', adding that no other nation joined the (...)
Shahinda Maklad, an icon of the Egyptian progressive movement, died of cancer on Thursday 2 June. She was laid to rest on Friday in Kamshish, the Delta town which witnessed her life-long struggle against the exploitation of Egypt's impoverished (...)
In the industrial north Delta town of Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra, textile workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company (Ghazl Al-Mahalla) went back to work on 1 November, ending an 11-day strike. In the neighbouring town of Kafr Al-Dawar thousands of (...)
“Twenty thousand textile workers at the Ghazl Al-Mahalla plants have been on strike since 21 October,” Abdel-Ghany Al-Naggar, a veteran worker at the mill, told Al-Ahram Weekly.
“All we are demanding is that the company implements President (...)
“Yet another coup attempt by the US-sponsored opposition against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was thwarted in February,” said Juan Antonio Hernández, Venezuela's ambassador to Cairo, at a press conference on 25 February.
He was speaking to (...)
On 28 October, for the 23rd year in a row, the international community as represented by the UN General Assembly (UNGA), voted almost unanimously to support Cuba's yearly report on “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial (...)
“We came to this labour meeting to talk about what is happening to our jobs and our factory but you won't listen. Even among our fellow workers we are marginalised. All you want to talk about is the minimum wage but our situation is worse. Since our (...)
In recent weeks, Venezuela has been rocked by violent demonstrators who, among other things, attacked government buildings, set fire to 19 popular clinics managed by Cuban physicians who were forced to flee for their lives, ransacked the offices of (...)
“It is time for the United States to change their policy towards Cuba. The time has come to end the embargo.”
Who can this quote be attributed to? If you guessed, you would most probably attribute it to a Cuban politician of international standing. (...)
“As far as workers' rights are concerned the proposed draft of amendments to the Muslim Brotherhood's 2012 constitution is anti-labour,” says Kamal Abbas, Coordinator of the Centre for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) and a member of the (...)
“On black Thursday, 22 November, the same day President Mohamed Morsi issued the constitutional declaration granting him vast dictatorial powers and placing himself beyond the reach of the law he also signed the new labour bill into law,” says Kamal (...)
Popularised by French writer Alphonse Karr in 1849, the epigram Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose has become a common adage. “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” most certainly applies to the US trade blockade against (...)
Labour Day in Cairo's Tahrir Square recreated the revolutionary spirit of 25 January, writes Faiza Rady
"After the 25 January uprising, we are again witnessing history in the making today in Tahrir Square. This is the first time in 54 years that (...)
Workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company, the vanguard of workers fighting for their rights, have ended their strike, reports Faiza Rady
"We negotiated with the military and settled our three- day-long strike on Sunday, 19 February," Nagui (...)
Since 2001 the US government has consistently compromised the Cuban Five's right to a fair trial, writes Faiza Rady
This September, the Cuban Five mark the 13th year of their incarceration in United States high security jails. The Five are Ramón (...)
The recent attack on prominent actress over her Jewish ancestry is a denial of the rich contribution of Egyptian Jews to the country's heritage, writes Faiza Rady
Addressing actress Ahmed in a recent article in the Arabic-language press, journalist (...)
Hillary Clinton suggests that ending the US blockade on Cuba may trigger a counterrevolution. She is mistaken, writes Faiza Rady
The United States campaign against Cuba recently took a new and bizarre twist when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (...)
Cuba has been at the forefront of medical and educational assistance to Haiti and other impoverished southern nations, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Marcos Rodriguez tells Faiza Rady
"Besides discussing issues of bilateral trade with Egyptian (...)
Though the international solidarity movement with the Cuban Five calls for their release, they remain behind bars, writes Faiza Rady
"The five Cuban political prisoners shouldn't have been deprived of their freedom even for one second," said Ricardo (...)
To this day, members of the Mohamed Ali family continue to be maligned in the Egyptian press, writes Faiza Rady
In a series of articles addressing the reasons for Egypt's defeat in the 1948 war in Palestine, published both in the written and (...)