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in title, tags, annotations or urlEgypt: 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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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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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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Industry and trade minister bans staff from striking during work | Egypt Independent - 0 views
Global Voices Online » Egypt: Waves of Workers' Strikes - 0 views
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.
نداء إلى عمال مصر الأحرار « شباب 6 ابريل - 0 views
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