Archive for 'Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt'
Towards a revolutionary perspective on Hamas
Posted by John, August 8th, 2014 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Hamas
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Mostafa Omar, a member of Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists, considers how the left should analyze Islamist groups like Hamas, in an article published at the RS website. He concludes that the support of revolutionary forces for Hamas and the Palestinian Resistance should be critical as well as unconditional.
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Dark days in Egypt on the third anniversary of the Revolution
Posted by John, January 28th, 2014 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt
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On the third anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution the military is cracking down. In Socialist Worker UK Wassim Wagdy examines the balance of forces, Mostafa Bassiouny looks at the workers’ movement while Phil Marfleet looks at the role of the old left.
Egypt: Freedom for Haitham Mohamedain – add you name
Posted by John, September 6th, 2013 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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Freedom for Haitham Mohamedain – To sign this statement click on the link at the bottom of the page
We condemn the arrest and detention of Haitham Mohamedain by the Egyptian army on 5th September in Suez. Haitham is a well known labour lawyer and revolutionary activist who has represented hundreds of workers arrested on picket lines or facing court hearings as a result of victimisation by their bosses or assaults by the police. Just two weeks ago he was in Suez defending steel workers whose strike for higher wages was broken up by the Army.
As a leading member of the Revolutionary Socialists, Haitham has also been one of only a small number of revolutionary activists prepared to publicly condemn the brutal crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Army in recent weeks, including the killing of hundreds of protesters on 14th August.
A Letter to Comrades from the Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt, 15 August 2013
Posted by John, August 19th, 2013 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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Down with military rule … no to the return of the old regime … no to the return of the Brotherhood
Statement from the Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt on the massacre in Cairo
Posted by John, August 15th, 2013 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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Down with military rule!
No to the return of the old regime!
No to the return of the Brotherhood!
All power and wealth to the people
Not in our name! Statement from Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists
Posted by John, July 30th, 2013 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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We must build popular committees to defend ourselves against attacks by the Brotherhood and to protect our revolution which will not subside before it overthrows the regime, and before it wins bread, freedom and social justice, and retribution for all the killers of the martyrs.
The Egyptian Revolution must spread to win
Posted by John, July 18th, 2013 - under Revolution, Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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he new government is offering the exact same policies as Mohamed Mursi, who offered the exact same policies as Hosni Mubarak. It’s the same neoliberalism and the same strategic alliances with the Gulf dictatorships, the US and Israel. It is as if these policies are written in stone. So the aspirations of the people do not seem to have a reformist outlet.
The revolutionary left is not yet big enough to pose the question of a real alternative, to point beyond the capitalist state. But the revolution could go on for years—and that gives us an unmissable opportunity to grow.
Building a revolutionary socialist party in Egypt
Posted by John, July 10th, 2013 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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The Revolutionary Socialists sprang from underground to play a leading role in Egypt’s revolt. Sameh Naguib explains how they built a party to shape the struggle. The last two and a half years in Egypt have been like being in a kind of hurricane that doesn’t settle. The Revolutionary Socialists as an organisation has been vindicated.
But if we hadn’t built an organisation before the revolution we would have been decimated, splintered into a hundred pieces.
Wave
Unless we prepare ourselves for those moments of mass action and revolution the wave will be too strong for us to stand on our feet and offer an alternative.
We have grown rapidly since the revolution began, in terms of numbers of members and in terms of being active in areas that were very difficult to be in before.
Freedom is in the hands of the people: Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt
Posted by John, July 10th, 2013 - under Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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In the face of the attacks of the Muslim Brotherhood, we will not take refuge in anything but our revolution, and we will protect it from any assault for the millions who have taken to the streets since June 30 through today. The people are capable of responding to any attack on their revolution. We shall continue to mobilize millions into the streets and squares, to form our popular committees to defend ourselves against the coercion of the Muslim Brotherhood. We will protect our revolution against any assaults, in the face of any attempts to circumvent it or to whitewash our demands for bread, freedom, social justice and retribution for the martyrs against the killers…all the killers.
We struggle with the masses of the revolution for its continuance and for the implementation of its goals. For the revolution, there is a people to protect it. All power and wealth to the people.
Victory to the 30 June revolution: Statement of the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt
Posted by John, July 7th, 2013 - under Revolution, Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt.
Tags: Egypt, Egyptian revolution
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The revolution is continuing, but it still needs time and to organise itself. This requires the reformation of popular committees to defend our revolution in every street, neighbourhood and factory. We are multitudes, but we lack organisation in our ranks.