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Remembering Husayn Muruwwah, the ‘Red Mujtahid’
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On 17 February 1987, during one of the bloodiest periods of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the prominent journalist, literary critic, intellectual, and activist Husayn Muruwwah (or Hussein Mroué[i]) was assassinated at his home in Ramlet al-Baida, West Beirut. Muruwwah left Lebanon at the age of fourteen to train at the Najaf hawza (seminary) in Iraq. He intended to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was a respected religious scholar and cleric. Yet after a multifaceted intellectual journey that spanned several decades and multiple locations, Muruwwah went on to become a celebrated Marxist philosopher and senior member of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP); “a Red mujtahid who was at once proud of the cultural heritage of Islam and politically committed to the cause of social justice, political freedom and emancipation from foreign domination along Communist lines.”[ii]

Communists form guerrilla group in Lebanon to fight back against ISIS
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Lebanese Communist Party members are taking up the fight against Islamic State and al-Nusra Front in the regions of the country affected by unrest in Syria by forming an ad hoc guerrilla group.

Fighters of the Lebanese Communist Party formed a guerrilla group to patrol the Beqaa Valley in the east of the country, RT’s Paula Slier reports.

The Lebanese Communist Party: The secret to constant failure | Al Akhbar English
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The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) is one of the most influential political groups in the Arab Levant – established and rooted in an environment of cultural enlightenment imbued with a humanitarian and revivalist spirit, under the shadow of a liberal regime. This was characteristic of Lebanon in the past century. But the LCP was unique among Arab communist parties for its cultural and intellectual output, on one hand, and involvement in armed resistance, on the other. This gave it a glorious image in Lebanon and in the Arab world.

Au Liban, le confessionnalisme accentue l’exclusion des femmes de la vie politique. (Très intéressant.)

Sectarian system, familial ties keep Lebanese women locked out of politics
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/sectarian-system-familial-ties-keep-lebanese-women-locked-out-pol

The parties that were chosen were: the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the Phalange Party, the Progressive Socialist Party, Hezbollah, the Lebanese Communist Party and the Future Movement.

The study shows that one or two women are represented in each party’s leadership body. None of the parties that were studied adopted a quota for women in their internal organization, 33 percent absolutely rejected a women’s quota, 50 percent appointed women in some leadership positions and 16.6 percent nominated women for parliamentary elections.

The study concluded that the sectarian political system affects women’s overall political participation and that the familial, partisan and sectarian system that governs municipal, mayoral and parliamentary elections is not friendly to women, but rather discriminates against them. Political parties take into account the families and the system that govern representation in the municipal elections and sects in the parliamentary elections at the expense of women.

The study recommended that political parties support the presence of women; empower their female members; advance their capabilities; raise awareness among party members about the importance of the role of women and their active participation; encourage women; allow them to reach decision-making positions; adopt a quota for women in party elections; adopt women’s issues and not confine them to female party members only nor to women’s committees; nominate women in municipal and parliamentary elections and finally, female party members should seek to impose women’s issues on their political parties’ agendas.

Mahdi Amel’s revival manifests ache for local revolutionaries | Al Akhbar English
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Hassan Hamdan, known as Mahdi Amel, is a mystery to those living outside of the region. A prolific individual, he was a poet, academic and a senior member of the Lebanese Communist Party. But it was his work as a Marxist theoretician – keen to incorporate its principles into the specific realities and particular contexts of West Asian society – that ensured his importance to Lebanon and other Arabic speaking communities.

In the ever-changing historical records of the world, there are countless stories of individuals who’s important life and influential work remain restricted to their communities, hidden from the mainstream spotlight that illuminates and immortalizes men and women, making them household names. Mahdi Amel is a classic example of those who remain in the shadows.

#Mahdi_Amel’s revival manifests ache for local revolutionaries
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A #Lebanese_Communist_Party rally outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) A Lebanese Communist Party rally outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

#Hassan_Hamdan, known as Mahdi Amel, is a mystery to those living outside of the region. A prolific individual, he was a poet, academic and a senior member of the Lebanese Communist Party. But it was his work as a Marxist theoretician – keen to incorporate its principles into the specific realities and particular contexts of West Asian society – that ensured his importance to #Lebanon and other Arabic speaking communities.

Yazan al-Saadi

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