What happened in Egypt?

[Blanquist]

Was it a revolution, a failed revolution or what?

It's so hard for me to tell, Alan Woods called it a revolution but he thinks everything is a revolution.

But other parties like the SEP in America, called it the opening of a new revolutionary epoch, that all revolution would be similar, and then they dropped the coverage.


I remember a few years ago they (bourgeois analysts) talked about Egypt as a trouble spot because Mubarak was getting very old and wanted his son to take over, but his son was unpopular and there was a good chance the army would just take control.

That seems to be exactly what happened.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Egypt doesn't have any strong or revolutionary organisations. There never was a revolution in Egypt, it was an uprising. What happened in Egypt now is that USA gave 1.3 Billion dollars to the egyptian military and they have been shooting at protesters with gas, rubber bullets etc. the whole last week. Workers have been going on strike constantly, and foreign capital has been giving cheap credits to the junta and "democratic" parliamentaries to sell EU cheap factories and remain the low wages. I don't think Egypt will have an outright workers revolution, they need yet to really organise. In about two years we will most likely start to see the fruits of all these crises forcing workers together now.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Egypt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=wyVwSWphcSA&NR=1), protesters killed by US funded military junta.