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“We (the teachers) have become proletariat el-ta’aleem (the education proletariat),” said N Sinai teacher and left wing activist Ashraf Ayoub in the meeting that followed Saturday’s protest. “Are we different from the workers? No. The government treats us in the same way. We are exploited and oppressed… We need to mobilize for a national conference for teachers in Egypt and overthrow the (state-backed) syndicate.”