- Hundred of workers fenced Libya Embassy (February 20th, 2012) see
- From Tahrir Square, the masses march to the Syria Embassy in Cairo (February 17th, 2012)see
A day in Tahrir Square
An element used by the masses as an expression was to settle tents, as symbol to occupy the square. In Tahrir Square, hundred of militants spend night and day there. Each tent symbolizes and represents some element of the revolution, specially the martyrs. Many of the martyrs are remember with their graves settle in the square itself.
In downtown it is possible to see the gallows reserved to the marshal Tantawi, the current chief of the Egyptian government and the entire military junta.
The fighters who are in the square know a lot of information, numbers and details which are not known at world level. But in the square people know very well that Mubarak was hosted in Sham el Sheikh (a touristic place full of luxury), where he was supposed to be in hospital. It was told that even the food he ate was brought from Egypt. This makes a general disappointment to the fighters.
The people in the square knew the wealth that the military junta had and the bad management of that. The immense majority of the workers and people need to work for 12 hours and some extra hours in order to get 20 Egyptian liras a day (this is close to 3 dollars, 15 Argentinean pesos). This money is enough for one person expenses. Therefore, the wages are not enough to maintain the family.
In fact, the situation is so desperate that many Egyptians are looking for work in Libya. Meanwhile the Egyptians see the Libyans as rich, as they were used as labor force by the Khadafy bosses. They feel the brotherhood and solidarity with Syria and obviously Palestine.
Another thing that is being told in the square is the control that the army has in the economy. They control the textile factories, the arable land, gas, oil and the entire foreign commerce; this is the main things of the economy. It was in this way since Nasser and it continues. Their budget is a State secret; the top secret kept here. It is assigned by the governor, who is always part of the army and/or is under his order (Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak and Tantawi, all army Generals). Whoever assumes as “civil government” after the transition, will be under the army.
Demonstrations are organized from one day to the other, through social networks. Otherwise repression forces go beforehand and militarize the field. There are groups advocated to the diffusion role, via facebook. This immediately reaches all fighters and they fill the streets by thousands. Recently, there was a demonstration of 9000 people for the memory of the fallen of the football match massacre. The flag used in the march was the Ahly one (the popular team, which fans were attacked).
While people continue in the square, they haven’t unified their forces to all the revolutionary sectors, as their leaders remain split and this doesn’t let them see the perspective of their own power.
Letter of workers from Tahrir Square
From Tahrir Square, the masses march to the Syria Embassy in Cairo against the massacre of Al Assad servant of imperialism, shouting:
“Bashar enemy of Allah”
“Bashar enemy of the people”
“US, NATO, Assad and Hezbollah are the ones who watch the frontiers of Zionism” “Syria and Egypt are one”
“Out the Syrian ambassador from Egypt” “Assad, Assad you are going to end as Muammar (Khadafy)”
“Goodnight Bashar now, today your day is going to end”
“We will reach Syria as million of martyrs”
“From the Egyptian people to the Syrian dog: get out!”
02/20/2012 Hundred of workers fenced Libya Embassy
On February 19th and 20th, the Embassy of Libya in Cairo was blocked and had to close its doors as hundreds of Egyptian workers were trying to get a visa to work in Libya. When workers strongly asked on the Embassy, the bourgeoisie authorities inside it got terrified and tried to escape. The day after, they didn’t show up. The workers rage was exteriorized and reflected on the doors and glasses of the Embassy, some of them got broken.
There are more than a million Egyptian workers working in Libya. There is their source of work, where they want to go back.
On February, 20th, a Libyan speaker, looking to the public, explained that everybody was going to get their visa and Libyan authorities ‘were happy to received the Egyptians in order to go to work in Libya’. But, if it is like that, then, why they put the condition of getting an entry visa and they don’t remove that restriction letting Egyptians cross, freely, the border to work? Why have they closed all factories in Libya? Why the Army control on the borders?
The truth is that the bourgeoisie denies the right to the workers to be able to work. The workers are the only ones who can defend it, as it was clear in Libya, when workers in arms (the militias) took the factories that boss closed, as in Egypt, too, where workers are the only interested ones in being able to cross to go to work.
Open the Libyan borders now!
The workers organizations, social and youths militant movements of Egypt coordinate with the Libyan militias an employment service so Egyptian workers can get into the Libyan occupied factories, under armed workers control!
Expropriation without payment of all the factories and oil companies and the entire labor source in Libya under the militias and workers committee control!
The revolution in the North of Africa was for bread, work and freedom. Today, despite the shed blood, we haven’t got it. Out the Libyan TNC! Out the Military Junta in Egypt! For a worker and peasant government with the masses self organized and armed! For the United Socialist States of the North of Africa and Middle East!
