From Socialist Worker:
They brought drums and homemade placards, set up a sea of tents in the factory grounds and turned the forecourt of the mill into a week-long mass meeting.
While riot police gathered outside, 27,000 workers occupied the giant Ghazl al-Mahalla textile plant north of the Egyptian capital Cairo last week, demanding the government fulfill its promise to pay a bonus equivalent to 150 days’ pay.
Within a week workers forced President Hosni Mubarak’s regime into a humiliating retreat.