Resisting our rulers
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy April 4th, 2007 in Activism, Amreeka, Egypt مصر, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Iran, Iraq, Labor عمال, Lebanon, Left يسار, Military, Palestine, Political IslamClick on the pic I took below to download the 5th Cairo Anti-War Conference’s final statement in Arabic… [I'll post the official English translation, as soon as I receive it from the organizers]
And here’s a report about the Conference from the Guardian’s Comment is Free:
The rich and powerful have their conferences and we who oppose them have ours. For example, some very rich and powerful characters were meeting in Saudi Arabia last week.
But as the tyrants met in Riyadh, delegates from 17 different countries gathered in Egypt for the Fifth International Cairo Conference incorporating the Third Middle Eastern Social Forum under the slogan: “Building an international coalition for resistance” - resistance against colonialism, globalisation, imperialism and Zionism.
There was a lot to discuss: the catastrophe of Iraq, the clear build-up against Iran, the on-going agony of the Palestinian people and the almost universal despotism which characterises the Middle East.
The conference met in a country on the brink of revolt. Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt as a police state for over 26 years, has recently increased his people’s suffering. Last December he announced changes in the constitution to “rid Egypt of socialist principles launched in the 1960s (and) also seek to create a more favourable atmosphere for foreign investments”.
This was the usual neo-liberal bullshit for slashing wages and forcing people to work harder. The workers resisted with massive strikes. Some 20,000 mobilised to defend their bonuses at the Ghazl el-Mahal factory in Mahalla el-Kubra, north of Cairo, 8,000 at Kafr al-Dawwar factory did the same, followed by similar strikes at Zifta and Shibin al-Kum in Alexandria.
Click on the photo, I took during the conference, below to read the full report…
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