1. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
2. Age of Extremes 
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
3. Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution
   Conditions and Consequences
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   Like perfect storms, several factors have to simultaneously and collectively come together for popular uprisings or protests, even massive ones, to turn into a revolution. That is why only a few of them have been successful in world history.
4. Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
5. Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   What mainstream media consumers will find almost nowhere (perhaps literally nowhere) is a detailed analysis of how US-UK support for Mubarak fits with a pattern of US-UK support for dictators across the world over many decades, indeed centuries.
6. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
7. Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
8. Crossing Rafah
   Heading to Gaza
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   
9. Egypt and Beyond
   Against The Current vol. 151
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   An interview with Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar, who grew up in Lebanon, is professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.
10. Egypt at the tipping point?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    
11. Egypt Shakes the World
    Against The Current vol. 151
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Suzi Weissman interviewed Yoav Peled and Mark LeVine on her program “Beneath the Surface,” KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on February 11, 2010. The following are edited excerpts from those discussions. Thanks to Meleiza Figueroa for transcribing.
12. Egyptian Labor Erupting
    Against The Current vol. 142
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In April 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal trials for “planning the April 6th strike in 2008.”
13. The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media
    Obscuring the Obvious
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    It is no wonder that most Americans are hopelessly in the dark. Middle East “news” in the mainstream is constructed so that people remain in a perpetual state of confusion and fear.
14. Egyptian Women and the Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Radwan focuses on the role women are playing in the Egyptian Revolution, their reasons for being active in the movement, and the repercussions they experience as a result of their involvement.
15. Egypt's Aunt Peaceful
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
16. Egypt's Long Labor History
    Against The Current vol. 142
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Egyptian working class is one of the oldest in the region, with a long history of internationalist solidarity. Egyptian loading and longshoremen workers in 1947, for example, boycotted the Dutch ship in Canal Suez in solidarity with the Indonesian people’s independence struggle. The union of the workers issued a statement against colonialism in general. They did not allow the ship to service or go through the Canal despite the resistance and efforts made by English and French administrators.
17. Egypt's Revolution at Three
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
18. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
19. The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution 
    A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
20. From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
    The Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
21. ISIS Church Bombings Kill 47 in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Ditz details two recent ISIS attacks in Egypt targeting Christian churches and followers.
22. Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
    A Report by the Solidarity Center
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
23. Last Sparks From Tahrir Square
    Tahrir Square Died, But Not the Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Once again, the prisons of Egypt are full. The hospitals are overflowing with injured men and women. But the fight, the ‘process’ goes on; it is not dying. Tahrir Square died, but the revolution is getting stronger.
24. Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
    A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
25. The Making of Egypt's Revolution
    People Power in Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    
26. A Man Apart
    The Life of Henri Curiel
    Resource Type: Book
    Curiel was a key figure in founding the Egyptian and Sudanese communist movements; he trained and influenced most of the left militants in Nasser's Free Officer movement. Curiel remained one of the most prominent figures on the Middle East scene until he was assassinated in 1978. Eqypt, and especially the radical movement within it, is the backdrop.
27. A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
28. Massacres That Matter - Part 1 - 'Responsibility To Protect' In Egypt, Libya And Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has a responsibility to act.
29. Memoirs from the Women's Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions.
30. Mubarak's Last Gasps
    From Counter-Attack to Departure Day
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt.
31. Mubarak's third force terror tactic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime. The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of autocratic regimes, usually utilised when the regime realises that it is on the strategic defencive politically.
32. New wave of attacks on freedom of information
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests, and abusive treatment in detention as Egyptian authorities maintain their campaign of repression.
33. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
34. On Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Historical compromise over an attempt at democratic change.
35. On Egypt
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Gilbert Achcar.
36. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
37. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
38. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
39. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
40. Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
41. Roads to the Arab Uprisings
    Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
42. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
43. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
44. The Socialist Register 1964
    Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964
    
45. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
46. Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
47. The strike that led to Tahir Square
    An act of courage that launched a revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
48. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
49. Tunisia, Then Egypt
    Why Now?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Under what circumstances does passivity turn into revolt?
50. Two years since Rabaa massacre, impunity still reigns in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    On this day two years ago, the Egyptian army and riot police launched a deadly onslaught on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.
51. Understanding the counter-revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
52. The US/EU Manufactured Egyptian Nightmare has Arrived
    The Ogre of Egypt Now Wants a Mandate for Wholesale Slaughter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Article on the internationally-financed regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
53. Why No Reporters in Suez?
    The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
54. Why the Revolt in Egypt?
    Against The Current vol. 152
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Why has the Arab world suddenly erupted in revolution from Tunisia to Egypt, from Bahrain to Yemen? Above all, why Egypt, the largest and most important of the Arab nations?
55. Winning the Rank and File Soldiers in Egypt
    An Historical Drama Unfolds
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will wield power during and immediately after the current transition of the toppling of Mohamed Morsi.

Experts on Egypte in the Sources Directory

1. African Union
2. Community of Sahelo-Saharan States
3. La Francophonie
4. The Hermitage
5. International Crisis Group
6. League of Arab States
7. Partners in Population and Development
8. United Nations
9. World Digital Library