Egypt
Police crackdown against protests in Egypt, Oman
By Patrick Martin, 28 February 2011
Egyptian military police attacked and beat protesters Saturday in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the mass popular movement that forced the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak two weeks ago.
New mass protests against US-backed regimes in Egypt and Yemen
By David Walsh, 26 February 2011
Protests took place Friday in Egypt and Yemen, as masses of people press onward in an effort to rid themselves of brutal, tyrannical regimes.
Notes on the Egyptian Revolution
By Nick Beams, 25 February 2011
The following report by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), was delivered to an aggregate meeting in Sydney.
Egyptian junta clamps down on strikes
By Chris Marsden, 23 February 2011
Egypt’s military regime has threatened to illegalise strikes in the face of the ongoing social unrest in the aftermath of the removal of President Hosni Mubarak.
Mass celebrations in Egypt one week after Mubarak downfall
By Alex Lantier, 19 February 2011
Millions of people attended victory celebrations one week after a mass protests forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from office.
Egyptian workers step up strike offensive
By Patrick Martin, 17 February 2011
Workers are defying appeals from the military command to go back to work.
Egyptian military commands a vast business empire
By Mike Head, 17 February 2011
Far from representing any democratic instrument, the military is a consciously counter-revolutionary force, determined to crush the workers’ uprising in order to defend its own immense business interests, as well as those of its pay masters in the US.
Egyptian military repeats demands for end to strike wave
By Patrick O’Connor, 16 February 2011
The army’s repeated statements since the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak reflect the acute fear with which the generals and the entire Egyptian ruling elite regard the developing movement of the working class.
Strikes, workers’ protests spread throughout Egypt
By Patrick O’Connor, 15 February 2011
Large numbers of workers in Egypt’s main cities staged strikes and street demonstrations yesterday for better wages and working conditions, and the removal of corrupt state-enterprise managers promoted under Mubarak.
Mass protests spread in Middle East as Washington reassures Israel, Arab dictators
By Bill Van Auken, 15 February 2011
Inspired by the Egyptian people’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, protests continued to spread in the Middle East on Monday, as Washington scrambled to reassure Israel and pro-US regimes in the region of its continued support.
Egyptian military asserts authority as strikes, protests spread
By Andrea Peters, 14 February 2011
While suspending the constitution and parliament of the Mubarak dictatorship, the Egyptian military continues to uphold the 30-year-old emergency law that has served as the basis of political repression.
The Egyptian Revolution enters a new stage
By Alex Lantier, 14 February 2011
The Egyptian military’s communiqués make clear that it intends to divert and suppress the mass movement, while carrying out a tactical transfer of power to maintain the old regime.
Mubarak resignation staggers Obama administration
By Alex Lantier, 12 February 2011
Obama administration officials reacted to yesterday’s ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with hypocritical declarations of solidarity with the democratic aspirations of the Egyptian masses.
Mubarak resigns, military claims power in Egypt
By Tom Eley, 12 February 2011
Massive demonstrations and a growing strike wave forced the Friday resignation of Hosni Mubarak. While millions celebrated his ouster, power has been claimed by the military.
The downfall of Hosni Mubarak
By World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, 12 February 2011
The World Socialist Web Site hails the downfall of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. As significant as this event is, however, it is only the beginning of this struggle.
Mubarak’s speech: only revolution can oust regime
By Bill Van Auken, 11 February 2011
With his speech on Thursday night, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak threw down the gauntlet to the mass protests and growing strike wave that have rocked his regime for nearly three weeks.
Mubarak resigns, military claims power in Egypt
By Tom Eley, 11 February 2011
Massive demonstrations and a growing strike wave forced the Friday resignation of Hosni Mubarak. While millions celebrated his ouster, power has been claimed by the military.
Egyptian military tortured, “disappeared” thousands of demonstrators
By Tom Eley, 11 February 2011
Since demonstrations and strikes erupted against the Mubarak regime on January 25, the Egyptian military has arrested, tortured and “disappeared” thousands, according to reports from the Guardian newspaper and human rights organizations.
The downfall of Hosni Mubarak
By World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, 11 February 2011
The World Socialist Web Site hails the downfall of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. As significant as this event is, however, it is only the beginning of this struggle.
Strikes and demonstrations spread across Egypt
By Patrick Martin, 10 February 2011
Factory workers, agricultural laborers and civil servants have joined the movement against Mubarak dictatorship.
The Egyptian working class moves to the forefront
By David North, 10 February 2011
During the past few days a steady stream of reports has confirmed the increasingly decisive role of the Egyptian working class in the struggle against the Mubarak regime.
Mass protests and strikes escalate as Egyptians reject “orderly transition”
By Bill Van Auken, 9 February 2011
Cairo’s Tahrir square was filled with its largest demonstration yet Tuesday as masses of Egyptians rejected the “orderly transition” through which the Obama administration and its principal ally, Omar Suleiman, are attempting to salvage the regime.
Omar Suleiman—longtime collaborator with Israel and US
By Patrick Martin, 9 February 2011
Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show Suleiman’s collaboration in repression of the Palestinians and torture of CIA prisoners
Democrats on the Mubarak payroll
By Patrick Martin, 9 February 2011
Many well-connected Washington lobbyists are on retainer for the Egyptian government
Italian politicians fear spread of “Egyptian fever”
By Marianne Arens, 9 February 2011
The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are causing anxiety among Italian government and opposition politicians who fear “Egyptian fever” could spread to their side of the Mediterranean.
Munich Security Conference defends the Egyptian regime
By Peter Schwarz, 9 February 2011
The 47th Security Conference in Munich last weekend openly stood behind the hated Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian protesters face mounting violence and repression
By Patrick Martin, 8 February 2011
Thousands of demonstrators remain camped in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, defying threats of violence and a wave of arrests by the secret police of the Mubarak dictatorship.
Obama’s cold-blooded defense of Egyptian regime
By Bill Van Auken, 8 February 2011
The revolutionary events in Egypt have exposed the reactionary character of the Obama administration’s policy and its deep involvement in the conspiracies against the Egyptian people.
Imperialism and Egypt’s “democratic transition”
By Alex Lantier, 7 February 2011
The talks taking place between the Egyptian regime of President Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the National Association for Change of Mohamed ElBaradei are a cynical fraud.
Egyptian regime begins US-backed talks with opposition parties
By Patrick O’Connor, 7 February 2011
The Obama administration has backed negotiations between the Mubarak regime and several Egyptian opposition parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
International demonstrations support Egyptian revolution
By Robert Stevens, 7 February 2011
Up to 2,000 people demonstrated in London Saturday during a day of international solidarity with the Egyptian people.
Massive anti-government protest on Egypt’s “day of departure”
By Chris Marsden, 5 February 2011
Friday’s “day of departure” was a massive display of opposition to the Mubarak regime. Over a million took to the streets of Cairo, defying government thugs, military cordons and ignoring the curfew.
WikiLeaks: Cables reveal connivance of US government with Mubarak dictatorship
By David Walsh, 5 February 2011
WikiLeaks released US State Department cables Thursday that add details to the picture of official US collaboration with the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak, now under siege by an outraged population.
EU summit lines up with Washington on Egypt
By Ulrich Rippert, 5 February 2011
Events in Egypt are filling the European powers with dread. In almost knee-jerk fashion, they are seeking to close ranks with the Obama administration in Washington.
Oppose US-backed “transition” in Egypt
By Patrick Martin, 5 February 2011
The Obama administration seeks to derail the mass uprising and retain imperialist control by refurbishing the dictatorship.
Heroic resistance in Cairo to state-orchestrated repression
By Chris Marsden, 4 February 2011
Anti-government protesters in Cairo have fought back against the brutal attacks waged by the disguised police and paid thugs of the Mubarak regime.
Obama’s crocodile tears over Egypt’s violence
By Bill Van Auken, 4 February 2011
If Obama is crying crocodile tears now over the violence that has left hundreds dead and thousands wounded in Egypt, it is only because this violence has stopped working, and the Egyptian people continue to resist and struggle.
Deadly crackdown against Egyptian protesters
By Patrick O’Connor, 3 February 2011
President Hosni Mubarak mobilised thousands of pro-regime thugs, provocateurs and plain clothes police against anti-government demonstrators.
Obama backs bloodbath in Egypt
By Bill Van Auken, 3 February 2011
The Obama administration bears full political and moral responsibility for the state terror and bloody violence that have left scores dead and thousands wounded in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt.
Obama backs Mubarak’s bid to retain power
By Peter Symonds, 2 February 2011
Obama’s aim is all too clear: to keep Mubarak in office for as long as possible while fashioning a regime to prop up bourgeois rule and uphold US strategic and economic interests in the region.
The Egyptian working class needs new forms of mass organization
By Chris Marsden, 2 February 2011
With his announcement that he will not step down and intends to serve out his term until September, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has thrown down the gauntlet before the millions opposing his regime.
Egyptian uprising grows despite regime’s reform gestures
By Barry Grey, 1 February 2011
Masses of people continued to demonstrate in Cairo and other Egyptian cities Monday and protest organizers called for a “march of a million” to descend on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the Presidential Palace Tuesday.
The Egyptian Revolution
By David North, 1 February 2011
As mass protests, factory occupations and calls for an indefinite general strike spread against the dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak, the working class is emerging as the driving force of the Egyptian revolution.
On the US “left” and the Egyptian Revolution
By Jerry White, 1 February 2011
Just as they did in the recent events in Tunisia, the International Socialist Organization is promoting the bourgeois opposition in Egypt, including Mohamed ElBaradei, as the legitimate leaders of the mass movement.
Mass protests continue in defiance of Egypt’s government and military
By Chris Marsden, 31 January 2011
Protests involving hundreds and thousands continued in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Suez and other cities throughout Egypt on Sunday, as deaths from the police crackdown soared to at least 150.
WikiLeaks cable shows close US ties with new Egyptian vice president
By Joseph Kishore, 31 January 2011
The new vice president of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, has long-standing ties with the United States and has collaborated closely in efforts to suppress oppositional struggles throughout the Middle East.
International demonstrations in support of Egyptian uprising
By our reporters, 31 January 2011
Rallies were held over the weekend in cities throughout the world in support of the mass demonstrations in Egypt against the US-backed dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
The Obama administration and Egypt
By Barry Grey and David North, 31 January 2011
As the Obama administration confronts a growing revolutionary movement in Egypt, its tactics will flow from two overriding and inseparable strategic aims: defending the Egyptian capitalist state and maintaining the country as the linchpin of American imperialist operations in the Mediterranean, North Africa and throughout the Middle East.
Egypt shuts down internet access
By Andre Damon, 29 January 2011
The Egyptian government shut down most internet traffic in the country shortly after midnight Thursday morning. The shutdown came after the Associated Press published a camera-phone video of a demonstrator being shot to death by police.
Hundreds of thousands across Egypt defy police attacks to demand ouster of Mubarak
By Stefan Steinberg and Barry Grey, 29 January 2011
The regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Murbarak was shaken by mass demonstrations across the country Friday that overwhelmed security forces, leading to the mobilization of the army in an attempt to contain the mass uprising.
WikiLeaks exposes US complicity in murder, torture by Egyptian government
By Tom Eley, 29 January 2011
A new release of WikiLeaks documents, diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Cairo from 2009 and 2010, make clear that the Obama administration was well aware that the Mubarak regime held onto power by terrorizing the population.
The United States, Egypt and the fight for socialist revolution
By World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board, 29 January 2011
The uprising yesterday in Egypt, coming after mass demonstrations in Tunisia and other countries in the region, marks a new stage in the class struggle in the Middle East and internationally.
Egyptian government deploys police, shuts down Internet ahead of mass demonstrations
By Johannes Stern and Stefan Steinberg, 28 January 2011
A mass demonstration is planned for Friday, with official opposition figures, including Mohamed El-Baradei and the Muslim Brotherhood, seeking to participate in order to smother the mass movement against unemployment, poverty and government repression.
Egypt, Tunisia, and the fight against US imperialism
By Bill Van Auken, 28 January 2011
Two weeks after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Arab leaders that their region’s “foundations are sinking into the sand”, the growing revolutionary upsurge of the masses has revealed that the pillars of Washington’s own policy in the Middle East are rotten and crumbling.
US pursues two-track policy to suppress protests in Egypt and Tunisia
By Barry Grey, 27 January 2011
The United States is working intensively to suppress mass protests in both Tunisia and Egypt and prop up the local ruling elites that are entirely subordinate to American imperialism.
Tens of thousands march in Egypt against Mubarak regime
By Johannes Stern and Stefan Steinberg, 26 January 2011
The thirty-year-old US-backed dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak was shaken by an unprecedented wave of mass demonstrations Tuesday demanding an end to the regime.
Egyptian opposition warns of an “explosion of the masses”
National day of protest set for Tuesday
By Johannes Stern, 24 January 2011
Egypt stands at the center of fears among the imperialist powers and the Arab bourgeoisie that the revolutionary turmoil in Tunisia could spread.
Egyptian regime fears mass protests
By Johannes Stern, 15 January 2011
Arab and Western governments are fearful that the mass protests in Tunisia will spread across the entire region, and in particular lead to popular revolt in Eygpt.
Egypt destabilised in wake of bomb attack on Coptic Church
By Jean Shaoul, 4 January 2011
A bomb attack on the al-Qiddissin Coptic Church in Alexandria killed 21 to 25 people and injured at least 97.
Documents expose Egyptian regime as stooge of US imperialism
By Johannes Stern, 4 January 2011
Diplomatic documents expose the Mubarak regime in lock-step behind US imperialism’s policies on Iraq, Iran and the Gaza Strip.
Egypt parliamentary elections marked by violence and fraud in second round
By Johannes Stern, 10 December 2010
Egyptian opposition politicians fear a “revolution of the hungry” if Mubarak’s National Democratic Party does not loosen its exclusive rule.
Egyptian elections marked by state violence and fraud
By Johannes Stern, 2 December 2010
President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) took almost all the seats in last Sunday’s election.
State repression rampant in run up to Egyptian parliamentary elections
By Johannes Stern, 27 November 2010
The Egyptian parliamentary elections on Sunday are taking place in an atmosphere of open state repression.
Repression against opposition intensifies in Egypt
By Johannes Stern, 22 November 2010
The Egyptian government has stepped up its repression of opposition forces and media outlets two weeks before the first round of parliamentary elections.
Egyptian opposition decides to take part in elections
By Johannes Stern, 23 October 2010
Opposition parties in Egypt have said they would participate in parliamentary elections due in November, ignoring the call by the best-known Egyptian opposition politician, Mohamed ElBaradei, for a boycott.
Conflicts intensify within Egyptian ruling elite
By Johannes Stern, 13 September 2010
Conflicts and divisions are intensifying within the Egyptian ruling elite just a few weeks before the parliamentary elections due in October, and one year before presidential elections.
Egypt: Protests mount over police murder of Khaled Said
By Jean Shaoul, 19 July 2010
Attempts by the Egyptian authorities to cover up and whitewash the brutal torture and killing on June 6 of 28-year-old Khaled Saeed by the Alexandria police have failed to suppress popular outrage. Anger at the security forces’ ability to act with impunity under the Emergency Laws, in force since 1981 and recently renewed, is beginning to boil over.
Egypt gripped by social unrest
By Jean Shaoul, 13 May 2010
On May 11, the Egyptian parliament approved a presidential decree extending the state of emergency for a further two-year period.
Egypt joins Israel in blockade of Gaza
By Jean Shaoul, 18 January 2010
Egypt has intervened forcibly to prevent international aid reaching Gaza, further tightening Israel’s illegal and inhumane blockade.
Egypt hit by wave of strikes and protests
By Johannes Stern, 23 November 2009
Increasing social inequality has led to a series of workers' protests in Egypt.
Egypt hit by wave of social and industrial unrest
By Jean Shaoul, 29 July 2009
On July 16 thousands of quarry workers in Egypt went on strike in opposition to a decision by the authorities to impose a tax of E£40 on each ton of quarried rock.
Growing economic, social and political tensions in Egypt
By Jean Shaoul, 19 March 2009
Not a day goes by in Egypt without demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins and clashes between workers and the police.
Gaza donor conference: conspiracy wrapped up as compassion
By Jean Shaoul, 5 March 2009
The donor conference for Palestine at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt had nothing to do with alleviating the appalling humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but served as a cover for furthering Washington’s geopolitical interests in the Middle East.
Israel bombs Gaza-Egypt border
By Julie Hyland, 29 January 2009
Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza’s border with Egypt early Wednesday morning.
In the wake of the Gaza war
Widespread anger in Egypt at Mubarak regime
By Johannes Stern reports from Cairo, 24 January 2009
On the spot report from Cairo reveals the extent of popular opposition to the Mubarak regime
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