Egypt

EGYPT: Discussion Statement of the FLTI August 17th

The revolutionary process in Egypt faces the counter-revolutionary reaction of the SCAF  (which has been and remains the main enemy and conduit of US imperialist program of attacks) against  the toiling masses the ‘exploited ones’ whose liberation demands  an  independent course through which the working class takes leadership of the revolution,  only then can the nation conquer bread,…

For International Labor Defense of Egyptian Workers!

On August 12th, two Egyptian trade-union leaders, Amr Yousef and Abdel-Raouf Abdel-Khaleq, of the Suez steelworker’s strike were arrested as the army laid siege to the factory where the strikers were holding a sit-in.  The MENA Solidarity Network[i] has appealed for international solidarity with the detained workers and in defense of the strikers.  The international…

EGYPT Debate: LCC responds to RCIT

Dear Comrades of RCIT, Thanks for your letter and your article critiquing our position on recent momentous events in Egypt.  We thought our article was good and self-explanatory.  You ask us to elaborate on our position. We obviously agree on the overall global situation and the Arab Revolution, unlike most of the reformist and centrist…

EGYPT Debate: Workers International Vanguard Party Statement

The LCC re-posts the following statement by the South African WIVP as a contribution to the discussion which has opened up around the nature of the removal of the Morsi government and the call by communists of the RCIT for a Revolutionary Constituent Assembly.   Down with the pre-emptive military coup in Egypt We salute…