Trots surrender to Muslim Brotherhood

[Tim Cornelis]

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/20151-brotherhood-agrees-to-form-a-revolutionary-front-with-socialists

Egyptian SWP will join a revolutionary front that will be formed and dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. This after they initially supported the a popular overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood, failing to see they were the useful idiots of the agenda of the SCAF (army). So now, to rectify, they become the useful idiots of the Muslim Brotherhood. I'm wondering if, when or if the MB gain power, the Revolutionary Socialists will align with secular forces in the army or secular forces in the streets that support the army to overthrow the MB again. If it doesn't devolve into a new similar 'Iran 1979' and the RS' are all thrown in jail (more likely when the MB accede to power extra-parliamentarily which seems to be the only option available now).

[Fourth Internationalist]

The 'Socialist Workers Party' in Britain and the 'Revolutionary Socialists' in Egypt are both part of the highly unorthodox Trotskyist 'International Socialist Tendency' which has a long history of capitulating to Islamic reaction. In 2012, the RS called for voting for Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Then, they switched around their rhetoric and decided they were against the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, they are back to supporting the Muslim Brotherhood...

Here (http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/974/cliffites.html) is an article about their initial support for the Muslim Brotherhood, along with a bit of their opportunist history in relation to Islamism, if anyone is interested.

And, from here (http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wh/222/Egypt.html):

“The victory of Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, is a great achievement in pushing back this counterrevolution and pushing back this coup d’etat. For now, this is a real victory for the Egyptian masses and a real victory for the Egyptian revolution.”

— Revolutionary Socialists founding member Sameh Naguib, quoted in Socialist Worker (US), 9 July 2012

A few months later...

“Today all the masks fell from Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood organisation, who trade in revolution and for whom the revolution is nothing but a means to reach the seat of power. They and the remnants of the old regime are two sides of the same coin, which is tyranny and enmity towards the people.”

— “Statement by Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists in response to president Morsi’s constitutional declaration”, 24 November 2012

And today, they have this new "Revolutionary Front" with the Muslim Brotherhood...

[khad]

Both will declare bayah when the Islamic State rolls into town. In a contest among extremists, only the most vicious will prevail.

[The Idler]

'highly unorthodox' trots, how deviant.