50,000 demand democracy in Egypt
vast minority | 19.11.2011 11:20
PRESSURE is building in Egypt for a second revolution to rid the country of the SCAF military regime.
A massive demonstration of 50,000 people was held on Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in which protesters from all backgrounds came together to demand the democracy they thought they had won in January this year.
But a stark reminder of how little some things have changed came after the rally with the arrival of riot police to dismantle tents and force the remaining people out of the area.
The scenes also have huge resonance with the attacks on Occupy camps in the USA, making it even clearer that we are witnessing the same system oppressing the same people - all across the world.
Reports Aljazeera: "Friday's protest drew political parties and religious movements of different stripes, though the loudest voices in the square came from Islamists, including hardline Salafis and the comparatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood.
"Liberal, leftist and Islamist parties and groups such as the April 6 Movement, founded in solidarity with labour protests, participated in the rally. Islamists joined with their call to put an end to military trials of civilians, which have led to the incarceration of thousands in proceedings described by human rights activists as opaque and unfair."
It quoted Anan Zuhairi, a 26-year-old doctor, as saying she was not with any party or political movement but that she joined the protest because 'nothing has been resolved since the revolution.
"'Nothing we revolted for has happened. Emergency law is still not canceled. People are being taken out of their homes. Our demands have remained the same except they've become more," she said. "We just want democracy and freedom. The people with opinions are all in prisons."
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But a stark reminder of how little some things have changed came after the rally with the arrival of riot police to dismantle tents and force the remaining people out of the area.
The scenes also have huge resonance with the attacks on Occupy camps in the USA, making it even clearer that we are witnessing the same system oppressing the same people - all across the world.
Reports Aljazeera: "Friday's protest drew political parties and religious movements of different stripes, though the loudest voices in the square came from Islamists, including hardline Salafis and the comparatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood.
"Liberal, leftist and Islamist parties and groups such as the April 6 Movement, founded in solidarity with labour protests, participated in the rally. Islamists joined with their call to put an end to military trials of civilians, which have led to the incarceration of thousands in proceedings described by human rights activists as opaque and unfair."
It quoted Anan Zuhairi, a 26-year-old doctor, as saying she was not with any party or political movement but that she joined the protest because 'nothing has been resolved since the revolution.
"'Nothing we revolted for has happened. Emergency law is still not canceled. People are being taken out of their homes. Our demands have remained the same except they've become more," she said. "We just want democracy and freedom. The people with opinions are all in prisons."
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Revolution is Removing of one Class from power and to Put in Another Class.
20.11.2011 08:43
Only removing one person, and leaving the state in the hands of his oppressing class members is not truly a liberation of the oppressed people. It was Mubaraks Military general appointed by him who took over on his orders, which suggests an even worst society because the white army is a parasitic non-productive class of exploiters, that takes from the productive classes for its existence. That is exploitation of the working productive classes.
The Military ruling is a state of Military Dictatorship over the productive majority, and in its worst form is a system called fascism. Eygpt needs a liberation army that rises in defence of the working classes, and sits with them in the governance of the 'new society' which the majority brings into being, independent of foreign interference altogether then.
I noticed during the revolt against Mubarak that the army was split by Professional Officiers, and press-ganged soldiers who really didn't like their oppression. The revolution needs to recognize this typical condition of all political 'white armies,' and win the press-ganged soldiers to the majority workers cause for true liberation.
The officier caste of puppets trained in the U.S.A. are not for the genuine democracy for, by, and of the peoples. They are the bought off sold out ruination of the workers, and their solidarity towards liberation. When the soldiers revolt against their politically white officiers, then the revolution can win at all levels a genuine collective agree called democracy. Then all power to the 'Workers' Commonwealth', the true 99% can prevail for sure over the one percent.
Viva socialist liberation. Re-tool to the renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity, and is more power than society can use. This non-pollution solution is given freely in nature and provides work for all and forever more.
Restore the matriarchy by electing women equally such as gender parity--the 50-50 natural electing that gives woman access to half the law making and half the wealth, thusly genuine democracy comes back to the species harmony and joy, which is the natural man, woman question.
Freedom can be obtained fully when the war machine of Imperialism is scrapped along with its manufactury. The free lifestyle can thereby be returned to the country and all the worlds' countries.
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