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Support Egypt’s Workers

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Workers Coordination Committee for Trade Union Rights has called for an emergency meeting, Friday 9 February, 11 am, at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, to discuss strategy and tactics to support Egypt’s labor movement.

The meeting will be attended by independent labor activists from the Nile Delta and Upper Egyptian provinces. They will come all the way to Cairo to familiarize the capital’s activists and journalists with the strikers’ struggle and the challenges they face.

The HMLC is located 1 Souq el-Tawfiqqia St. For more information, call: +202 5758908 or +20121519598

IF YOU ARE IN CAIRO, PLEASE SHOW UP! EGYPT’S WORKERS NEED AND DESERVE YOUR SOLIDARITY.

Socialist Alliance denounces govt Federation of Trade Unions

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Socialist Alliance (an umbrella coordination mechanism that includes the Revolutionary Socialists, the Egyptian Communist Party, the left-leaning Justice Center for Labor Rights) has issued a statement, in solidarity with the textile strikers in the Nile Delta towns, and denouncing the corruption of the government’s General Federation of Trade Unions.

You can find the statement in Arabic here.

I’ve also received news that the Kafr el-Dawar workers may start a hunger strike tomorrow.

Kefaya demonstrates against Mubarak

Posted on By 3arabawy

Kefaya’s demo that was scheduled to happen in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office on Monday, was moved due to security siege to the Lawyers’ Syndicate and the Press Syndicate.

Around 100 assembled in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, while 300 others managed to gather in front of the Press Syndicate.

Demonstrators chanted against Mubarak, corruption, and police torture. Activists also extended their solidarity to the Lebanese opposition fighting a US-client government in Beirut. “Hosni Mubarak and Sanioura–Bush is the original, they are the photocopies,” went the chants. The Mahalla textile strikers got also a lion-share of chants in support of their struggle against their corrupt neo-liberal management.

Protesters clashed on several occasions with the Central Security Forces troops that surrounded the Press Syndicate, leading to minor injuries. Photos below, taken by Nasser Nouri:

  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri

The Revolutionary Socialists distributed leaflets during the demo, calling for wider mobilization within the factories, university campuses, professional syndicates to achieve the radical political change Egypt needs–rather than focusing the struggle on narrow, superficial constitutional amendments within the parliament.

The Revolutionary Socialists, Photo by Alexandra Sandels, Cairo, Press Syndicate, 12 Dec 06

I left the scene of the protests by 4:05pm. By then, 400 demonstrators at the Press Syndicate were chanting, demanding the execution of President Hosni Mubarak on charges of treason and mass torture.