Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists 21 Nov 2011

22.11.11

Workers of Egypt: Rise up for the victory of the revolution

Nearly a year into our glorious revolution, the regime of oppression and corruption ledby the SCAF has not ceased to impose itself by force, attempting to erase traces of the revolution and to prevent the impoverished, toiling masses from reaping the fruitsof their great struggle. The regime of repression that is protected by the military hadimagined that the revolution was buried and ended, and that the people that rose uplast January and destroyed the massive machines of oppression would today submit inthe face of tear gas canisters, cartridges and live ammunition.

The multitude now facingdeath in the name of rescuing the revolution, in confronting remnants of the criminalregime shall triumph as they have triumphed before. And the tools of oppression thatwere smashed on 28th January will be destroyed anew at the will of the revolutionaries.The regime has proven beyond a doubt that it is but a deformed continuation of Mubarak's obsolete rule. Our reclamation of those companies stolen by privatizationunder Mubarak's rule is being resisted by the regime today.

Those privileges endowedby Mubarak on the elite class of investors continue to be protected by the militaryregime. The minimum wage that workers called for in the name of a dignified life isbeing circumvented by Mubarak’s loyalists. The cold-blooded murder of revolutionariesat the hands of Mubarak's butchers continues with patent debauchery at the hands of the military rulers.

Workers stepped forward last February to rescue the revolution, as labor strikesspread to all corners of Egypt to support the uprising, setting Cairo, Mahalla, Suezand Alexandria ablaze; workers in all of Egypt's governorates and its factories andinstitutions both public and private committed to the struggle. The dictator was forced tostep down when workers’ strikes paralyzed the joints of the regime and threatened itscollapse, - the regime chose to rescue itself by sacrificing its head.

Today the revolution will not be cheated once again and will not be pacified with sedatives. The working classthat delivered the revolution to victory in February will not be late to rescue the heroesof the revolution that today hold their ground steadfastly in the face of the regime of corruption and repression. The companies occupied in January workers will return tooccupy soon again and the workers that made their way to the squares of Tahrir, elShoun and el Arba'in will go there once more; the working class will reawaken with their heroic struggle to erase - at the side of the revolutionaries - the remnants of Mubarak's regime and build a revolutionary path on the basis of justice and freedom.

The Revolutionary Socialists
21 November 2011

Labels: Africa, democracy, Egypt, Protest