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0 You know, despite my serious craving to do so, I am not going to make fun of the Cairo Conference, referred to as the Anti-War conference, against clonialism, imperialism, globalization, and Zionism. I mean sure, a conference that claims to be anti-War yet invites Hamas and Hezbollah is mock-worthy, but, ehh, a lot of people I know and am friends with on the left participated, and they are good people, plus I hear that the seminar on torture in Egypt was good, so I really don't think I will go there. Plus, if they think they can fight imperialism from inside conference halls, well, who am I to tell them differently?
So, no, I won't mock their conference. However, I will mock this piece by Sasha Simic about it, because it is really fuckin moronic and has some of the dumbest arguments I have heard in a while, and I know Nasserites, so that says something. Here is a little infuriating segment:
The conference met in a country on the brink of revolt. Hosni
Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt as a police state for over 26 years, has
recently increased his people's suffering. Last December he announced
changes in the constitution to "rid Egypt of socialist principles
launched in the 1960s (and) also seek to create a more favourable
atmosphere for foreign investments".This was the usual neo-liberal bullshit for slashing wages and
forcing people to work harder. The workers resisted with massive
strikes. Some 20,000 mobilised to defend their bonuses at the Ghazl
el-Mahal factory in Mahalla el-Kubra, north of Cairo, 8,000 at Kafr
al-Dawwar factory did the same, followed by similar strikes at Zifta
and Shibin al-Kum in Alexandria.They all won.
Mubarak's response was to attack the limited democratic rights of
his people – limiting the role of the judiciary in supervising ballots,
outlawing political activity based on "religious reference or bias" and
including draconian "anti-terrorism" measures to crush any dissident
political groups.
Ok, right off the bat, the past 3 paragraphs? All pure Bullshit! Egypt's not on the brink of revolt, as I've painfully demonstrated here. The socialist principles weren't socialist in the first place and changing the word didn't really change shit as I've explained here , and to call Mubarak liberal is an insult to liberals anywhere and everywhere. But whatever, all of this is nuttin comapred to the big whopping turd manifested in the last paragraph: that Mubarak changed the constitution and took away the democratic rights in order to punish "the workers for their revolt". A77a! Yeah, cause he is so scared of a couple of thousand workers that will shut up and go home the moment they get their monetary rights (which I believe they are due and have supported). Yes, I can see that making Mubarak alter the constitution. Makes sense!
Reading this just made me wonder who the hell this Sasha women is, and where she gets her crack. Upon googeling her I found that she ran for local elections in Britian on the Respect Party Ticket (always a good sign that you are a retard or an asshole, since it is the Party of Galloway), and not only that, she finished 10th! 10th!!!!! Amazing, isn't it? A whopping 216 votes! Now that's a winner! Do the guardian blogs people have a screening process on who they ask to write for them at all?
I would really like to know!
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have you checked what mahmoud amin el 3alem said about the revival of communist cells from Alex to Aswan? What is your opinion?. I think since you know both left wing activist and capitalist then your opinion can be well founded.
pure bullshit
amgad, mahmoud amin suffers from an advanced case of alzheimers assasan. He doesn;t know what’s going on or what year it is to begin with. The fact that al masry el youm published that means that it’s entering the forray of sensationalism.
The idea is to increase worker productivity without making workers work harder (e.g., computer, tech, & .com revolution). Anyone who doesn’t understand the most basic economic principles is a lousy candidate for opinion journalism.
If you want the latest Ikhwan opinion on anything, the Guardian is a great place to look. Probably faster than Cairo.
[Sasha Simic] from the name i guess she is yugoslav origin, a fossilized sample from Tito era, “rid Egypt of socialist principles
launched in the 1960s (and) also seek to create a more favourable
atmosphere for foreign investments”, kiss my ass bitch!!!
and Gallawi collaborator as well, A7777AAA!!!
as if our troubles with the government is not enough, the leftwingist still believe they can lead the Prolitaria !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ooops..I think this was the one I thought was funny:) my mistake
Thanks SM, the possibility that organized communist cells are behind workers protests worried me, not because I disdain the left, but because I was afraid of the regimes reaction in this case. I remember the harsh response in the 80s toward steel workers movements and the dire consequences on them. I also remember how the state security jailed many socialist students in 1997 when they started to organize harmless protests against the land law. My fear was that if the workers protests start to be politically organized then the regime’s boot will crash them and eliminate any hope for improvement of their conditions.
You’ve been calling people pieces of a shit a lot today… either way, I love it 🙂
galloway is awesome
Hello Ducks,
Thought you might like to know that Sasha Simic is a he, not a she.
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