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By Fred Weston
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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The heavy-handed intervention of the army and police on Sunday managed to
block the general strike, but it has enraged the workers and youth who have
continued to protest.
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By Union of Progressive Youth Egypt
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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The situation in Mahalla has become far more serious than
the media would lead us to believe. The police opened fire on the unarmed
demonstrating workers and killed at least four. Here we publish an appeal for
solidarity that we have received from Egypt.
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By Jean Duval and Fred Weston
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Yesterday, Sunday, April 6, the workers of Egypt were
preparing for what could have been a very powerful general strike. The state
intervened heavily at the Mahalla textile plant arresting 150 workers. These
methods cannot stop the growing wave of working class militancy and will only
serve to increase the determination of the workers. The workers ‘intifada'
which erupted later that day in the city is proof of this.
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By Marxy.com
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Message of solidarity
from the Moroccan Marxists to the workers in Egypt in struggle. Read this in English, French and Arabic.
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By Ian Aylett
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The magnificent wave of industrial action in
Egypt, which started over a year ago, is continuing. And it continues to be
ignored by the media. Price rises are the central focus of protest. But in a
very important development, at the Ghazl al Mahalla textile company have
raised political demands for the first time.
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By David Markovitch
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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The
Israeli siege of Gaza and imperialist pressure
to retaliate on the Gaza population in order to
isolate Hamas has provoked a major crisis that is shaking the Middle
East. Once again the direct intervention of the masses has changed
the whole scenario, putting into jeopardy the stability of the most important
point of support of US
imperialism in the Arab world: Egypt.
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By Ian Aylett
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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Despite an
international conspiracy of silence, as we have reported over the past year
Egypt has seen a major upturn in the class struggle. Workers have shown
fantastic bravery and made enormous sacrifices. The working
class, especially the massive Egyptian workers movement, is the key to the
future of the Middle East, not the so-called war on terror or the blind alley of
Islamism.
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By Frederik Ohsten and Francesco Merli
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
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In previous articles we have looked at the
explosion of the class struggle in Egypt. The regime has been defeated
time and time again in the last period. Recently, the Mahalla workers launched
a magnificent struggle and were able to achieve a remarkable victory.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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Egypt is entering a crisis. The
working class is standing up, as strike after strike shakes the country. The
government has decided to hit back, attempting to close the Centre for Trade
Union and Workers’ Services.
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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For the last three years Egypt has
experienced a wave of strikes, mainly in order to fight against a new wave of
privatisation of state owned companies promoted by the Mubarak government. The movement started amongst textile workers but has now
spread to other sectors, encouraged by the fact that most of the strikes have
ended up in victories
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By Nadim al-Mahjoub
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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
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The recent elections
in Egypt were in no way democratic. What they reflect is the
pressure of imperialism that wishes somehow to stop the unstoppable, that is
the inevitable movement of the masses from below. But the change is only
cosmetic and the masses can see through this. |
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By Yossi Schwartz in Jerusalem
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Tuesday, 06 September 2005 |
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On Wednesday August 17, a US-style campaign began for the
upcoming elections in Egypt.
32 million Egyptians are eligible to vote on September 7, but how many will
vote is a big question.
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By Egyptian Socialists
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Thursday, 25 April 2002 |
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We have received this letter from socialists in Egypt regarding the
recent mass movement in support of the Palestinian people that has
received no coverage in the Western media. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 24 October 2001 |
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We received this article from a trade union activist in Egypt who
reports on how the state security police have removed candidates in the
trade union elections who are opposed to privatisation. It is quite
clear that a very angry mood is developing among Egyptian workers and
the state, in collaboration with the leaders of the trade unions, are
attempting to stifle the growing opposition. |
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By Ted Grant and Alan Woods
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Thursday, 25 June 1998 |
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It is nearly seven years since George Bush, the then president of the US, made
his famous "New World Order" speech. This was in 1991. In the build-up to the
Gulf War the main imperialist power on earth promised a world without wars, without
dictatorships and, of course, a world firmly under the control of a single all-powerful
world policeman--the US. After the fall of Stalinism, US imperialism really thought that
the world would be firmly under their command and they would be able to dictate the
destiny of each and every country. Now all these dreams have been reduced to rubble. In
this document Ted Grant and Alan Woods make an in-depth analysis of the history of the
imperialist domination of the Third World and the way. |
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