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Egypt’s military to warn against labor strikes

Posted on 13/02/201117/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Egypt’s new military rulers will issue a warning on Sunday against anyone who creates “chaos and disorder”, an army source said.
The Higher Military Council will also ban meetings by labor unions or professional syndicates, effectively forbidding strikes, and tell all Egyptians to get back to work after the unrest that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Remember, when the army took over in 1952, first thing they did was executing two strike leaders at Kafr el-Dawar textile mill.

UPDATE: Egypt’s businessmen are of course thrilled.

#Jan25 Pro-regime propaganda

Posted on 02/02/201115/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Leaflets against demonstrations distributed by govt agents.

The Lost Revolution

Posted on 28/11/200810/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Chris Harman, The Lost Revolution, p.82

An uprising can only succeed if the masses feel they have chance of success. They are not drilled military formations, trained to maintain their ranks in retreat as in advance. They are men and women who will give their all if they are going to achieve liberation, but who will quickly disperse and drift back to their normal humdrum lives in the factory, the tenement, the pub, if they feel that that objective has been abandoned. A revolutionary movement that is sure of victory will forget everything else. But the moment leaders acknowledge that the old order is to continue […] the rank and file will begin to worry about their jobs, their homes, the attitude of the foremen and the local policeman.