Alexandrian microbus drivers and journalists in Daqahliya are staging sit-ins.
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‘There is a different, more radical, mood in the country’
Leftist activist and engineer Hamdi Qenawi attended the Mansoura Tax Collectors’ meeting:
There is a different, more radical, mood in the country today. Fear (from the regime) is much less than what it used to be. The movement for change has brought down barriers. We need to unite the movement, and do not fragment it along sector-related demands. We need to help one another, and exchange experiences. In their fight to build their free union, the Tax Collectors need to open channels with the workers in Mahalla and the Railways. And as our colleague said, we cannot stand in the middle. We either stand with the killer or the victim, with the robber or the robbed.
‘Strikes are the only means to get our rights’
Salah Abdel Salam, Daqahliya Tax Collector:
All union presidents work for State Security. And all State Security (officers) serve only the regime… Egypt has turned from a welfare state to a savage capitalist state… Strikes are the only means to get our rights, as we saw in the Real Estate (Tax Collectors’ strike), Mahalla, Mansoura-España and others… There is marriage between the regime and capital. If the workers stick together they will be able to confront (this marriage).
