Samir Amin

The symposium organized in Algiers from 25 to 30 September 2013 gave rise to a rich debate revolving around a central theme: the ‘sovereign project,’ understood as the necessity for the peoples and nations of today’s world to reorganize their political choices in a way that would allow them to di

• The Muslim Brotherhood rule lasted just over a year, why did the collapse come so soon?

These thoughts originate from comments and texts received from friends from China and they complement my article, “China 2012” which was published in “Pambazuka News 45” on this website.

Yes, the fall of Morsi and of the rule of the Moslem Brothers is an important victory of the Egyptian people. It was expected by all Egyptians.

The President of the World Forum for Alternatives (WFA), Egyptian economist Samir Amin, today paid tribute to the late president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, whose death he called a ‘great tragedy.’

I am one of those who out of principle condemn all military interventions by Western powers in the countries of the South, these interventions being by nature subject to the requirements of the deployment of control of the planet by the capital of the monopolies that dominate the system.

A. ‘LIBERAL’ CAPITALISM OR CRONY CAPITALISM?

The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising.

These three Middle Eastern states should normally have been found in lists of today’s ‘emerging’ states. They have each attempted, in the past, to modernise as a response to the challenge from Europe.

The reader will find on this site a paper entitled “The Arab revolution: a year later” (14/3/2012) in which I explained the main reasons which led to the electoral victory of the Moslem Brotherhood in the January parliamentary election