By the time you watch this video, the Egyptian general strike will likely have begun.
Cf. Salma Said: “I think that the impasse in the revolution right now is because we’ve reached a dead-end in our escalation tactics…We’ve tried peaceful demonstrations and peaceful sit-ins…One of the most effective tactics the world over is civil disobedience, when civil disobedience leads to a general strike, this can completely cripple the state…the dictatorial state that is killing and wounding us everyday…And I think that the key to the success of a general strike, or civil disobedience, lies in the participation of the large sectors, the sectors most capable of crippling the machinery of the state, the industrial workers, teachers, and doctors…”; the Egyptian government states regarding the general strike: “We face conspiracies hatched against the homeland, whose goal is to undermine the institutions of the Egyptian state and whose aim is to topple the state itself so that chaos reigns and destruction spreads”; Muslim Brotherhood Secretary-General Mahmoud Hussein adds, “These calls are extremely dangerous and threaten the nation and its future…A general strike would see train traffic halted, no transportation, and no work in factories, institutes or universities…It also means no one would pay taxes to the government, or fees for public utilities, which would damage the already crippled economy and lead to the country’s decline.”
Hesham Sallam: “Egypt today faces a choice between an officers-politicians pact that could help the country ‘transition’ to a managed form of limited political competition and participation, versus a much more comprehensive process of revolutionary change dictated and advanced by popular pressures and demands”; Shana Marshall: “Far from slowing down in the face of economic uncertainty or concerns over political stability on the part of arms exporters, co-production agreements and technology transfers may be intensifying under the leadership of the interim military government…If SCAF is able to use its executive power to engineer a post-transition system that protects the military’s economic perquisites, the latter will use the tactics described above to augment the share of the economy already under military control. This is only likely to increase the longer SCAF remains in control of the political system, allowing the military to shape electoral outcomes and legal frameworks.”
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