It's Not About Religion, It's About Bread & Dignity

The Global Revolution : Egyptians Show How To Fight Back



By Darryl Mason

For 7 days, tens of thousands of Egyptians with nothing left to lose have refused to end their protests and go back to their homes. Tonight they once again occupy Cairo's famous Tahir Square. They know now, this is it. President Mubarak refuses to quit, the country is falling into chaos, suffering massive financial losses in business & tourism, and world leaders refuse to echo protesters demands for Mubarak to get the fuck out in fear that they too may soon face the fury of the masses they've been fucking over, on behalf of the mega-wealthy. For the protesters, there's no going back. The food shortages and unemployment and poverty that drove so many Egyptians into the streets only one week ago are not going away, either.

What happens next? Will the crowds give up and go home?

It hardly seems likely. Go home to what? A nervous wait for a midnight knock on the door from Mubarak's newly invigorated police torture squads?

On Tuesday, a few hours from now, a One Million Men march is set to sweep through Cairo. Perhaps when only a few hundred thousand show up, momentum will be lost. That will certainly be the New Narrative from most of the Western media, echoing Mubarak's propaganda state news.

And after Tuesday's march? Will Mubarak will be allowed to clear the streets his way? Who will protect the people from Mubarak's police and the 'hired help' now rumoured to be flowing into Egypt? Will it be the Army Vs The Police? How many of these soon to labeled "terrorists" and "Islamists" and "extremists" will Mubarak be allowed to kill before President Obama or Prime Minister Cameron says "Enough"?

With so many foreign corporations so heavily invested in Egypt, and with the Suez Canal so close to the ever spreading uprising, it seems only a matter of time before American, British, French, Israel military arrive to protect their "national interests". First covertly, now, then publicly, a show of force against those who "choose violence over peaceful calls for democratic reform."

Cars and marketplaces exploding seem a grim inevitability, considering the stakes, the lost business, the international financial disruption that threatens other economies now, and soon even global economic stability, or what remains of it.

Madness & chaos will rule Egypt for days, if not months to come.

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The footage pouring out of Egypt, regardless of internet shutdowns & cell phone network closures, is breathtaking, historic, sad, but also inspiring.

Two examples follow.

Despite the shields, helmets and batons, a furious Egyptian man shows that a well placed shove, with some real momentum behind it, can knock even the most well armed state police off balance :



Next Egyptian protesters show how hundreds of police, and their armoured vehicles, can be driven back from a key city bridge by the furious, fearless, faithful many.

And remember, these mega-fail crowd dispersing strategies were drilled into Egyptian police by American terror-industrial corporations like Blackwater.

The Battle Of Nile Bridge. These protesters are trying to march from wealthy districts of Cairo to Tahir Square, to join the rest of the protesters. The battle lasted for more than two hours. This is urban warfare. Find 10 minutes and watch it all :



Tear gas canisters, made in the United States, were supposed to disperse that crowd, but the wind blows the gas back into police lines, and protesters douse the canisters that land amongst them quickly with bottles of water, or pick them up with protected hands and throw them into the Nile, or back at the police. They flushed their eyes quickly with Coca-Cola or vinegar & water and kept running at their oppressors, their torturers.

Those shots of protesters stopping to pray, continuing to pray even while being blasted with water cannons is instantly iconic.

There are many, many governments around the world watching how Egyptian protesters are being dealt with, and they are seeing so many of the established strategies, concocted by Western military psy-op units and Blackwater types, failing monumentally to drive the people out of the streets. Failing to restore order.

'Holy fucking shit, they're not religious extremists, that's the Egyptian middle class out there protesting and fighting police. If it can happen in Egypt, it can happen here.' Many nervous governments are thinking such things right now.

A Global Revolution?

Why not?

So many poor are even poorer, and so many recently happily middle class people have lost everything and face no brighter future than debt slavery.

And this is the new reality for hundreds of millions of well-educated, capitalist-minded people across England, Ireland, across Europe, the Middle East, the United States.

The monumentally greedy 5% have stolen the modest wealth of too many this time. They took away their jobs, their homes, their dignity. They left them with nothing left to lose.

"We did The Right Thing," the humiliated middle class say, we believed The Dream, we worked hard, we bought what you told us and we did as you told us, we made you richer than ever.

"And still you fucked us."

2011. The year of ongoing monumental natural disasters in a world of fast-spreading poverty and revolutionary chaos?

Hang on tight.


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