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Mahalla textile workers on strike
It’s unlikely to see Mahalla now rising against Sisi, but such industrial actions are slowly laying the seeds of what could be a full-fledged challenge to the ruling junta in the coming years. UPDATE: The strike has been suspended on Saturday.
Read on »Revolution Through Arab Eyes: The Factory
كمال الفيومي: فلنتخلص من كل مبارك صغير في شركاتنا
Protests against SCAF in Mahalla, Mansoura, Suez
الصحافة الشعبية والتضامن مع حركة العمال
2008 – Egyptian Revolution Soundtrack
This is a music track I put together in 2008 following the April Mahalla uprising, where I mixed Yann Tiersen’s “Summer ’78” piano piece with anti-Mubarak chants I had recorded previously during Kefaya protests. Finally, the talented photographer/multimedia journalist and friend James Buck added the music track to a slide show of photos, taken by
Read on »Minimum wage reduced to LE684 in new state budget
The Mahalla workers, on 17 February 2008, were the first to put forward the demand, for raising the national minimum wage to LE1,200 per month, after it stagnated at LE35 per month since 1984. Nazif’s neoliberal cabinet only raised it to LE400 last year. Following the uprising, Essam Sharaf’s cabinet had announced it’d raise the
Read on »العمال والثورة
Outrage over exoneration of Egypt telecom giants in communications shutdowns
To follow up on this posting, Ahram Online has a good report by Salma el-Wardani, where she reports on how telecommunication companies were not surprised by Mubarak’s orders to shut down services, as they first practiced shutdowns at the request of government officials during the 2008 Mahalla uprising.
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