Published in Democracia Obrera #61-11/28/2012 Egypt: long live the revolution! with the fights of the palestine masses in Gaza, the Egyptcian working class and youth returns to Tahrir Square, by attacking US Embassy and seizing the streets shouting: “Mursi go away, go away!” and “Muslim Brothers stole the revolution!” Shouting “Muslim Brothers stole the revolution!” and “Mursi go away, go away!”, tens of thousands revolutionary workers and youth returned their fight to Tahrir Square, re-taking the path started in January 2011. The same combats were held in Alexandria, Port Said, etc. They set on fire offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, attacked the US Embassy in El Cairo and there were street fights against mubarakist oppressive forces. The revolutionary masses show that they won’t allow the expropriation of their revolution. On the other hand Mursi, named president after the fake elections and vowed he “would never oppress the people”, took the police in the streets to confront the uprising and combats with a result of 2 deaths, over 450 wounded and hundreds of injured. After a week, the working class started to face Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood’s government openly; and by this fight they are facing the regime expropriator of the huge Egyptian revolution. It overthrew dictator Mubarak last February, as part of the revolutionary wave that shook Northern Africa and Middle East. The spark that set on fire the revolutionary Egyptian meadow was a decree of Mursi that gave him almost absolute power. The decree stated that his resolutions would be “unappealable ”, supposedly to “defend the revolution” as he stated cynically. The revolutionary masses said that this was the self-claim of Mursi as the new “Pharaoh” of Egypt. This joined the impatience and need of justice against the absolute impunity of the murders of the martyrs of the revolution in 2011, who were even released by Mursi. But the factor that mobilized the masses to this new round of the Egyptian revolution is the outrageous levels of misery that the exploited masses are suffering. The Egyptian revolution of 2011 was preannounced by powerful strikes of the most important battalions of the working class, and it was made for bread, work and national independence. As in Jordan, artificial kingdom created by imperialism in the historic Palestine to look after the borders of Zionism, the bourgeoisie in Egypt, with the increase of food prices internationally, heads an attack against the working class by eliminating subsidies and increasing the price of food, condemning the proletariat to starvation and misery. 70% of the youth is unemployed and low wages of the masses made them out again, since none of the demands that pushed them to start the revolution have been solved. Thus important proletarian strikes preannounced the uprising of the exploited masses in the streets. Tens of union leaders and strikers were imprisoned for fighting for wages and better life conditions in the last few weeks. The working class and exploited of Egypt, precursor of the revolutionary chain that since early 2011 shakes Northern Africa and Middle East, have understood that Mursi’s government, based on a civic-military regime keeps without any change the Officer Caste of Mubarak’s Army –which still has important business-, won’t give them bread, work and national independence which were the reasons why the proletariat rose up. Muslim Brothers and its representative Mursi, as the masses are seeing now, are nothing but the expropriators of the worker socialist revolution started in Egypt. The fight of the workers in Egypt irrupted at the same time than the Palestine masses of Gaza were sieged by a bloody bombing of the Zionist army, gendarme of imperialism. Right now hundreds of Egyptian fighters crossed the border to fight with their class brothers of Palestine. Mubarak regimes and government, destroyed by the revolutionary fight of the masses, acted a counterrevolutionary device of US imperialism in the region, to protect the borders of Zionism and specially to prevent the unification of the Egyptian and Palestine masses in a single combat against the Zionist gendarme, i.e. against imperialism. That is Mursi posed as “guarantor” of the “cease fire” agreement between the Palestine bourgeoisies and Zionism. He did it to protect the wall of Rafah that, if it would be overthrown by the masses again, could start again a unified combat of the entire masses of the region. Thus, Mursi as lackey of imperialism wants to recompose Egypt as a counterrevolutionary device in the region. Also the Egyptian masses with their fight are facing the entire counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism, which highest expression is the genocide of Bashar Al-Assad against the rebel masses of Syria, on behalf of butcher Obama. Down with Mursi’s government, continuer of Mubarak, and the regime that is stealing the revolution! Out with the Muslim Brother, servants of imperialism! Worker and popular militia now! Destruction of the officer caste paid by imperialism! While world bourgeoisie and their cockatoos of the reformist left talk about “Arab springs”, “democratic revolutions”, etc. the truth is that there are new revolutionary fights in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Tunisia, the heroic resistance in Syria prove that the revolution hasn’t died, because the masses haven’t conquered bread, jobs or national independence: There won’t be peace, or work or bread for the exploited masses in Northern Africa and Middle East unless the Palestine flag wave in its capital Jerusalem! Let’s stand up together with masses of Gaza to destroy the Zionist fascist state of Israel! For a Federation of Socialist Republics in Northern Africa and Middle East! Pedro Gonzalez
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