[lbo-talk] The Revolution in Egypt: The End of the New Pharaohs?

Chuck Grimes c123grimes at att.net
Wed Feb 2 14:35:40 PST 2011



> http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110202egypt-cw

North Africa is in revolt. As usual, the most striking thing is how familiar everything is: the young man with the prestigious degree working at a coffee shop, the unemployment and bitterness, the protests set off by police brutality-for police are to the unemployed what bosses are to workers. These details cue us in that what is happening in Egypt is not part of another world, but very much part of our own. There are no exotic overseas revolutions in the 21st century. Make no mistake-though these events dwarf the riots in Greece and the student movement in England, they spring from the same source. To keep up with events, we urge you to read our comrades' dispatches from Egypt and anti-authoritarian perspectives from the Middle East in general. But for these uprisings to offer any hope, we have to understand ourselves as part of them, and think and act accordingly...

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110202egypt-cw

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Whatever the theoretical turns, I sure felt part mostly joy, What I've been watch are grand scale event and processes I've only seen in miniture---little models.

[PJ Crowely of the State Dept just condemned the violence and urged the Egyptian government to investigate who did it, in a conversation with VP Sulieman. Spin fucker spin.

So, I am going to speculate...a translation.

What this means is the US State Dept, US and Egyptian intelligence, and probably some elements of the Egyptian miliary (Chief of Armed Forces and his immediate generals, the Air Force and commanders of elite units) are going to try to organize a counter-revolution in the name of `stability'. They want Mubarak, now reduced to a symbol to disappear, and push Sulieman forward as the acceptible replacement.

If all that is happening, then the Egyptian revolution must intensify its numbers and start pulling in sections of the military. The way to do that is start at the bottom of the military who are the vast majority of support, mechanics, maintenance, etc... the same kind of guys who often disserted during Vietnam. They are easier targets because they don't really want to be there... the faux nationalism and military bullshit wore off after a few months out of basic...

--Currently it looks like the revolutionary forces in the museum side street just won their street back. The only thing burning are a couple of cars in a nomansland between them and the counter-revolutionary stragglers. It is obvious the c-r started these to block further progress and wonder off into the night. I can see the same roofing sheet metal barricaids from this afternoon. This great news. It means the revolution on that little street just won a very intense battle. --

CG



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