#feb11 archives — 3arabawy https://arabawy.org/tag/feb11/ Hossam el-Hamalawy Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:22:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://arabawy.org/wp-content/uploads//2014/11/cropped-footer_portrait-32x32.jpg #feb11 archives — 3arabawy https://arabawy.org/tag/feb11/ 32 32 The state-run unions, loyal servants of SCAF https://arabawy.org/37534/the-state-run-unions-loyal-servants-of-scaf/ https://arabawy.org/37534/the-state-run-unions-loyal-servants-of-scaf/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:59:23 +0000 https://arabawy.org/?p=37534 In the past, the state-backed unions played a central role in controlling and/or mobilizing the working class on behalf of Mubarak. Today, the continue to be the loyal servants of the regime and its new masters, the army junta.

The state-run federation general unions incited against the February 11th general strike calls in the media and workplaces. The picture below I took during the 10 February march on the Ministry of Defense is just one example.

State-Run Transport Union Anti-Strike Banner
The state-run public transport workers distributed banners and forced drivers on stick them on their buses, denouncing the strike calls. I and other protesters had a chat with the driver above, and he assured us he had nothing to do with this banner and he was coerced by his managers into sticking it on the bus.

]]> https://arabawy.org/37534/the-state-run-unions-loyal-servants-of-scaf/feed/ 1 Religion in service of the state https://arabawy.org/37429/religion-in-service-of-the-state/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:52:28 +0000 https://arabawy.org/?p=37429 Just like in April 2008, and 25 January 2011, both Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church, the two main arms of the state’s religious establishment, have come out to denounce the calls for general strike and civil disobedience planned on 11 February 2012.

Add to the list of course, the Muslim Brotherhood. Their leadership did not endorse the 6 April 2008 strike, neither did they endorse the 25 January 2011 protests (they only officially lent support to the revolution on its fourth day), and now are they are denouncing the calls for this coming 11 February strike.

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