From the Huffington Post:
If only the American press would give factory strikes in Egypt, a real mark of social unrest and popular, often secular self-determination in the Middle East, as much attention as democracy-by-occupation in Iraq and the Fatah-Hamas schism in Palestine.
Inspired by the Ghazl el-Mahalla strikers, Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff has sent me the following cartoon:
Bloggers heading up north please print out the cartoon and distribute it among the strikers. Tell them their struggle is inspiring people in other continents as far as Latin America. Thanks Latuff!
Ghazl el-Mahalla blogger Kareem el-Beheiri uploaded more videos of the strike. Listen to the workers chanting “We will not be ruled by the World Bank! We will not be ruled by Colonialism!”
I hope other bloggers are on their way to Mahalla by now to report on and fraternize with the strikers. They NEED your solidarity. Please bring (besides your digital cameras) food, juice bottles, Cleopatra cigarettes boxes and travel to Mahalla. It’s only a couple of hours away from Cairo. We need more of you up there in the Nile Delta.
Victory to the Ghazl el-Mahalla Strikers… Down with Mubarak’s neo-Liberal dictatorship…