[PAA-Discuss] The day of departure

[Massoud]

The Day of Departure

Today in Egypt is the day of departure. A day that Egyptians will end the 30
years repressive regime of Mubarak.  The mood of Egyptian people from the
break of dawn has been victorious. However this means that the U.S. is in
brink of losing a key ally which have a long-term and significant
consequences for her interest in the Middle East and support of the
Apartheid regime of Israel.

But any honest student of the history knows that the Imperialist powers will
always remain as a threat to any mass movements as long as they have their
fingers or even one finger in the pot. The only way to freedom is to cut all
economic and political ties with the imperialist powers. In a revolutionary
situation like Egypt, the only obstacle to end the rule of puppets and
puppeteers is the Liberal ideology. In the past 10 days, all liberal
commentators have tried to explain and predict the future of Egypt. They
praised - rightly so - the heroic action of men and women in the Libration
Square in Cairo, but they never touched the roots of this symbolic
resistance. 

The Egyptian revolution didn't start by a gathering in Midan Tahrir (the
Libration Square). The Egyptian revolution was not an spontaneous, over
night phenomenon. The revolution in Egypt has a long bloody history. What we
are witnessing in the Libration Square today is the labor of the many
rallies, demonstrations and sacrifices of the Egyptian working class,
students, men and women of conscious. 

Hicham Safieddine a Toronto-based researcher and journalist, gives the best
description of this history: 

"In the past three years, around 3000 acts of protests took place across the
country. Following the 2005 rigged presidential elections, a judges'
uprising over the lack of judiciary independence galvanised middle-class
professionals against the regime.

The workers' movement occupied centrestage two years ago with strikes
turning into outright mutiny against the regime in the Delta town of
Mahalla, home to the largest contingent of workers in the Middle East (an
estimated 28,000). The workers' uprising of 2008 gave birth to the first two
independent unions in Egypt in over four decades, the unions of property tax
collectors and of health technicians (a total of about 70,000 workers). The
workers' movement was soon joined by large swathes of civil society who were
emboldened to escalate public forms of protest and transport them from mere
rallies and small-scale sit-ins near association headquarters to a broader
movement spilling into open public space. This was symbolised by the leading
role of the 6th of April Youth Movement that called for civil disobedience
actions in 2008 and for the January 25 'Day of Rage'".

 

So, the danger that is awaiting for the Egyptian revolution is not the
well-known enemies such as plainclothes Mubarak police forces or the army in
general, what is dangerous is the "Liberal Ideology" that says and does
everything possible except cutting the cords totally from the imperialist
powers. From the ElBaradei, the Muslim Brotherhoods figure to the unknown
"transitional figure" in coming days, all will be the servants of the
Imperial powers, unless they trust the masses and step aside for the true
leaders from the hard working Egyptians.

 

Massoud   

February 4th, 2011 - 12 noon (Cairo time).

  

   

 





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