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[Egypt] The labor activism was the origin of the revolt fell

Un análisis serio sobre la revolución egipcia no puede dejar al margen la lucha de clases, la pobreza y la injerencia extranjera como causas fundamentales del estallido de las protestas... Olga Rodríguez

that spread to Cairo. In this report, revealed by Wikileaks, it reads: "What happened in Mahalla is significant (...) has entered a new organic force of opposition that apparently defies political labels and is unrelated to the Muslim Brotherhood. This may force the Government to change its script. (...) What happened on April 6th joined forces several opposition activists with many Egyptians, through the call to strike on Facebook, which has gathered 70,000 followers in the network, and has garnered significant national attention. The link Facebook users of middle and upper classes with their counterparts in poor has created Mahalla factories a new dynamic. "The report is titled:

Mahalla: isolated incident or the tip of the iceberg?

The answer came quickly. From this strike has not been a week without protests, demonstrations and strikes in Egypt. own report attributed the causes of fires to rising prices, corruption, pro-US and pro-Israeli stance of the Mubarak regime and the plight of the underclass in the country. and highlights how significant that the Muslim Brotherhood were distanced from those mobilizations.

Despite reports like this, the West has for years endeavored to present the Middle East as essential conditions by religion, in a game of rough and child roles, introducing social masses of bearded fanatics, without feelings, without overtones. Stereotypes childish, simplistic and even racist have primacy in the analysis of many think-tanks and the reports of governments. The Egyptian revolution has revealed that not all Muslims are Islamists, who are Democrats Islamists, Arab non-Muslims and Muslims who want secular states. Middle East that there are workers, men and women with social demands and progressive and secular ideals, including socialists, communists or atheists. A serious analysis the Egyptian revolution can not leave out the class struggle, poverty and foreign interference as the root causes of the outbreak of the protests.

Mubarak has fallen, but thousands of Egyptian workers in virtually all industrial sectors are leading the strike to demand back wages, raising the minimum wage to trade unions controlled by the regime, the creation of free trade unions, recovery or self-management by workers in public enterprises have been closed or sold, and its nationalization. Consider that the real revolution will only occur when there is food and rights for all. From 2004 has been in Egypt more than 3,000 workers' protests. The Egyptian labor activism has been one of the largest social movements in the Arab world in recent decades and yet has been almost absent in the information pages of the Western media. The U.S. and European governments should take responsibility for supporting for years to Mubarak and his regime. And some media outlets would have to ask whether it is rigorous and realistic to be guided by the theories they are told they work for those governments.