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Flying Purple People Eater
3rd March 2013, 12:47
Please don't give me that crap about 'angsty teens' and the odd 'clown costumes', because they're horrible scapegoats to mask what's really going on in Egypt. There are fucking underground union movements who've claimed control over regions in the country - surely this isn't to be repudiated as the shenanigans of 'the naive and rebellious'?

Anyway, onto my main point, does anyone know what the main driving force behind the current riots in Egypt right now? Besides these organisations:

al-ištirākiyyūn aṯ-ṯawriyyūn/Revolutionary Socialists-Trotskyist Organisation
http://revsoc.me/

Egyptian Bloc- Liberal, Secularist Organisation
http://www.elkotlaelmasreya.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87.aspx

Evidence of An-Communists?
http://she2i2.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/first-conference-of-egypts-libertarian.html

I havent been able to find anything. Yet I've seen images and videos in media where the groups quite clearly display specialised symbols associated with the left (such as a strange Anarchist A with a bronze arrow forming the bridge between the two arches) being used constantly in the unrest.

So, in short, could anyone give clarity on what's actually happening in Egypt, and what groups, if any, are forwarding it?

subcp
3rd March 2013, 18:08
With the little information available in English, seemingly the textile workers that have been engaged in constant strikes (some taking on the character of mass strikes) since 2006 in the industrial city of Mahalla; and the character of a mass revolt similar to those of OWS, the indignados, the Syntagma Square assemblies, taking place in major cities.

http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-mahalla-soviet.html

One of the Egyptian Trot groups is calling for parliamentary reforms, if you search for 'Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists' on either the SWP-UK or US-ISO websites, they post the 'demands' of the Trots (which are watered down minimum demands ill-fit for this century).