"We are victims of privatization," one worker called Mustapha told me. "We are not demanding any raise or anything, just our salaries. We are creating a profit, so where is our rights? We are not going to give up. We want to live!"
The EOHR suddenly remembered there are workers in Egypt. Mabrouk. The strike wave is dictating a change in the public political discourse for everyone: the govt, civil society, and even the radical left.