عصام شرف archives — Page 4 of 6

Police crackdown on labor protests continues

Posted on 11/06/201126/02/2021 By 3arabawy

After the International Labor Organization rewarded Essam Sharaf’s cabinet by removing Egypt’s name from its black list, the government continues its crackdown on the labor movement.

Police is trying to smash the Bani Sweif Cement workers strike, detaining three workers and tearing down the tents set up by the strikers.

And in Cairo, the public prosecutor has ordered 10 protesters (five farmers, three auto workers and two students) to remain in police custody for 15 days, following their arrest last Wednesday during their sit ins in downtown Cairo.

Police crack down on workers, students, farmers, urban poor

Posted on 09/06/201125/02/2021 By 3arabawy

On orders from Essam Sharaf’s cabinet, Central Security Forces troops suspended by force yesterday protests by Awqaf farmers, auto workers around the parliament, smashed student protesters in front of the ministry of higher education, and dispersed urban poor protesters demanding housing in front of Maspero.

UPDATE: Per blogs about Egypt’s neoliberal counter-revolution.

Essam Sharaf and the NDP

Posted on 23/05/201125/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Essam Sharaf, our current “revolutionary” prime minister, In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, August 2010:

Q- What is your political affiliation?
A- I’m a member of the Higher Policies Secretariat of the National Democratic Party.

Was Sharaf’s senior position in the NDP ever brought up after January 2011 or when everyone cheered for him as “Tahrir’s Prime Minister”? Personally it’s the first time for me to even know of this information today. I never knew he was that high up in the party. And it only adds to my conviction, that this revolution is hardly finished, and those in the transitional government together with Mubarak’s generals in the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces want nothing except seeing it crushed.