state backed unions

Sisi’s War on Terror

The regime propagandists have managed to uncover the biggest sponsor of terrorism in Egypt. It’s the independent unions! Keep it up, we are definitely winning this war on terror.

The state-run unions, loyal servants of SCAF

1 Comment / Photos / By 3arabawy

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 …

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Radio interview: Egypt’s labor movement

Blog / By 3arabawy

This is a radio interview recorded on May Day. I hope you find it useful, it includes some background history on the Egyptian labor movement.

Megawer’s Federation, between the left and the bros

Blog / By 3arabawy

While the Revolutionary Socialists and the independent unions are pushing for the dissolution of the corrupt, state-backed, Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions, the Muslim Brothers are calling for “purging” the federation, as if this hopeless regime-founded institution could be reformed.