Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Egypt’s military regime prepares clampdown on strike wave

Workers are now in a mounting conflict with the post-Mubarak military regime in Cairo.

With workers pressing their demands on pay, conditions and official corruption―demands that accompanied the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak and remain unmet―the military regime is employing ever more repressive measures.

On June 8, the government confirmed that the law it approved in April criminalising protests, strikes, public gatherings and street assemblies, is now to be enforced.


http://www.wsws.org/mobile/articles/2011/jun2011/egyp-j17.shtml