So today in downtown Cairo, pro-Palestine activists staged a protest, after workers from self-managed factory clashed with the police, while the urban poor protested demanding housing from the govt.
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Tanta Flax and Oils Company strikers, in front of the Ministerial Cabinet, Downtown Cairo, 18 August 2009…
Gamal Othman, one of the Tanta Flax and Oils Company strike leaders, denouncing the treachery of the state-backed General Union of Textile Workers. Photo taken during a Workers Preparatory Committee meeting, Cairo’s Press Syndicate.
