Following the assault on the Amonsito workers this morning, the Egyptian police has just cleared out the entire area around the parliament, forcing Helwan’s Telephony Company, Nubariya and Amonsito to suspend their ongoing sit-ins by force, threatening them with more detentions.
The Egyptian government has committed one of the most stupid acts for this year. They have sent back the workers to their factories, and sent out a signal to all other protesters that none is welcome anymore in this little “Hyde Park speakers’ corner” that has been in the making over the past few months. In other words, the protests from now on will be in the workplaces, and the in the provinces, and inevitably I expect nothing short of direct actions by the workers to block the high roads like what they’ve been doing in Tanta, Alexandria, Damietta, Kafr el-Sheikh, and other places. Now in the coming days, you can surely add the 10th of Ramadan City and the Nile Cornish road.