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The mass strikes of September 2011 paralysed the government and the military
council and opened up the road to the crisis of November. The independent unions
and strike committees which led these strikes are part of what is now probably
the biggest social movement in Egypt (with the possible exception of the Muslim
Brotherhood), and certainly the biggest organised movement with real roots in
the everyday struggles of the poor
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Egypt: See no strikes, hear no strikes, report no strikes | Menassat - 0 views
International Socialism: The Egyptian workers' movement and the 25 January Revolution - 1 views
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Will organised workers move into the leadership of the mass revolutionary movement? This article argues that two conditions for this happening have already been met: the workers’ movement has begun to gain enough mastery over its constituent parts to be able to use its social power in battle with the state, while the demands that are now being raised by this movement cannot be satisfied within the limits of neoliberal capitalism in the context of intensifying economic crisis at a local and global level.
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While the numbers of participants were probably lower than February, the significance of September’s strikes lay in the qualitative shift towards coordinated national and sector-wide strikes.
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آلاف الموظفين بالضرائب العقارية يعتصمون أمام مجلس الوزراء - 0 views
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There's a mistake in this report and the coverage of the Real Estate tax officers strike. The report is saying the strike was resumed yesterday. Actually the strike was never suspended. But what was resumed yesterday is the open-ended sit-in
Industry and trade minister bans staff from striking during work | Egypt Independent - 0 views
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The employees told Al-Masry Al-Youm they were surprised by the decision, as other government employees succeed in achieving their demands through strikes :D
Egyptian Tax Collectors Continue Hunger Strike Despite Cold Weather | FSRN - 0 views
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Audio report by the Free Speech Radio News, on the 2007 Tax Collectors strike
Global Voices Online » Egypt: Waves of Workers' Strikes - 0 views
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Social Media and Egypt's strike wave...
Ghazl Shebeen, Kafr el-Dawwar Strikes… VICTORY! at 3arabawy - 0 views
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My blog posting from Feb 2007 on the textile strikes in Kafr el-Dawwar and Shebeen el-Koum
جريدة البديل - الحكومة تتراجع أمام المحامين.. وشلل في الإسكندرية بسبب إضراب ا... - 0 views
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Lawyers strike suspended in victory, as Microbus drivers in Alexandria paralyze the city with their strike against inhuman treatment they receive on the hands of the Traffic Police
البيان الأول للجنة العامة لإضراب إداريي وعمال التربية والتعليم « تضامن - 0 views
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The civil servants revolt continues, and new structures for running the national strike is evolving... Here's the first statement by the General Committee for the Education Ministry Civil Servants and Workers Strike...
SHE2I2: 4,400 Workers Still on Strike at the Shebin El Kom Textile Company - 0 views
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Jano blogs the Ghazl Shebeen strike
Strike with no beginning, strike with no end | Al-Masry Al-Youm - 1 views
Egypt labor strikes point to desperate conditions -- latimes.com - 0 views
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Hundreds of labor strikes have been called since 2006, when textile workers and police clashed in the city of El Mahalla el Kubra.
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Actually no clashes with the police took place during the 2006 Mahalla strike.
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Eman AbdElRahman, "Egypt: Waves of Workers' Strikes" - 0 views
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Like 2008, this year is witnessing waves of strikes and demonstrations by Egyptian workers in various sectors and organizations. Students, pharmacists, lawyers, railway drivers, media people, and even microbus drivers and street cleaners are all de
نداء إلى عمال مصر الأحرار « شباب 6 ابريل - 0 views
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The Facebook activists are calling on the "Free Workers of Egypt" to strike on 6 April.. Well, good luck to you.. It's not gonna happen.. You have to have activists on the ground to organize this, not in the cyberspace..
Jaiku | Ghazl Shebeen Textile workers in Nile Delta are on STRIKE - 0 views
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Strikes jaiku-ed..
إضراب شامل للمهندسين خلال أيام ضد استمرار الحراسة على النقابة - بوابة الشروق - 0 views
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أعلنت حركة «مهندسون ضد الحراسة» أنها أكملت استعداداتها لتنظيم الإضراب العام والشامل لكل مهندسى مصر العاملين فى القطاع الحكومى أو القطاع الخاص على السواء، وفى جميع قطاعات الهندسة من النقل والبترول والاتصالات والمدنى، للمطالبة بوقف الاعتداء على أموال المهندسين المهدرة من قِبل لجنة الحراسة على النقابة والمفروضة عليها منذ أكثر من 15عام
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المهندسين هايعرفوا معاد الأضراب أزاي؟
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Engineers to go on national strike?
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Engineers to go on national strike?
Photos: Ghazl Shebeen el-Kom on STRIKE صور إضراب عمال غزل شبين الكوم at 3arabawy - 0 views
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Photos of the strike by Sarah Carr
Daily News Egypt - Workers take to the streets: the strikes of 2007 - 0 views
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In 2007 Egypt witnessed an unprecedented level of labor unrest as workers from textile factories to public transport to tax collectors went on strike, mainly over low wages and poor working conditions.
Jaiku | El-Masriya workers in Suez went on STRIKE Saturday,protesting exporting of fert... - 0 views
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FANTASTIC NEWS FROM SUEZ!! That's what we need.. Only workers' strikes can end normalization with the Zionist state, not the Press Syndicate protests...