Actor Khaled el-Sawy addressing an audience of workers, farmers and fishermen, during Tadamon’s gathering, speaking about his experience as an activist with the Center for Socialist Studies.
Khaled compared the current times with his university days in the 1980s. “No students used to show up for demonstrations or strikes,” he said. “Everyone was scared. Today the situation is different. You see protests in the universities, in Mahalla, in the factories… among the peasants and fishermen that give you hope. The revival of the Socialist movement in Egypt was something I couldn’t have imagined in the past. Today it is a reality.”
