[mgj-discuss] Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order + Kefaya

[Rami Elamine]

In addition to this excellent report on the textile workers in Egypt (see message from MERIP below), check out the two part series in the Washington Post on the history and demise of the Egyptian democratic movement Kefaya: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701482.html and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801196.html
   
  For an insider's view of Kefaya, check out the Left Turn article Kifaya and the Politics of the Impossible by Issandr El Amrani at http://tinyurl.com/yufk9p
   
  Read the synopsis below, but the link to the MERIP article on the Egyptian textile workers is at http://www.merip.org/mero/mero032507.html 
   
  Rami
   
  
Middle East Report Online <ctoensing at merip.org> wrote:
    From: "Middle East Report Online" <ctoensing at merip.org>
Subject: Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:25:02 -0400
To: relamine at yahoo.com

The Egyptian regime is cracking down on all manner of dissenters -- from 
Muslim Brothers in Parliament to the well-known Kifaya movement to bloggers 
and journalists. But another form of opposition has been scoring victories: 
a wave of wildcat strikes that, like the Kifaya protests, began in late 
2004. The collective action of Egyptian workers is currently the most 
broad-based kind of resistance to the regime. It represents a possible 
threat to the "stability" President Husni Mubarak needs to pass his office 
on to his son, as most Egyptians are convinced he seeks to do.

Joel Beinin and Hossam el-Hamalawy tell the story of the most militant and 
politically important strike to date in "Egyptian Textile Workers Confront 
the New Economic Order," now available in Middle East Report Online:

  http://www.merip.org/mero/mero032507.html 



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