Egypt: Mubarak is dropped, the capitalist regime and the bourgeois state remains
Arousing the jubilant demonstrators, Hosni Mubarak has announced his resignation, handing his powers to the army. Anyone who wanted a few more hours just before the defender of the constitution and the ultimate bulwark against the "chaos", has endorsed a kind of coup cold (according to the constitution the president of parliament would should take over power).
All statements and maneuvers the government could not prevent the clashes and mass protests will be succeeded in Egypt for 18 days. Friday February 11 crowd even more massive than at previous events took to the streets of Cairo and other major cities, despite the declarations of the "Rais" saying he was abandoning the reality of power to his vice president.
After the first few events involving thousands of people, especially young people of the petty bourgeoisie mobilized via the Internet, "specialists from the Arab world" and other "commentators warned" learnedly explained that the Mubarak regime was solid and that situation in Tunisia was impossible in Egypt. The emergence of tens of thousands of demonstrators from neighborhoods Popular Cairo during demonstrations on 26 and Jan. 28 has completely changed the situation. It was also just in Cairo but in other major Egyptian cities that huge masses came screaming their hatred of power, pushing their numbers by the police.
Nothing has done: nor the cutting of internet networks and mobile telephony, or censorship of the media, nor the ferocity of the repression (more than 300 dead in early February), or half-concessions Mubarak, n were unable to prevent this wave whose source lies in the conditions of life increasingly miserable masses proletarianized. For the ruling circles of the Egyptian bourgeoisie, like those of other Arab countries in the region and U.S. and European imperialism, the question was how to successfully contain the anger expressed in the streets and squares of Egypt, to prevent the revolt becomes insurgency or she becomes revolution.
Especially the last few days have seen a worrying factor for the new capitalists: the entry into the working class struggle. Calls have begun to circulate for a general strike and the first work stoppages were reported in the days before the departure of Mubarak. February 10 tens of thousands of workers were on strike, the strike wave was the largest since the strikes in the textile industry for 2007-2008 which had been severely repressed. Strikes erupted in different jurisdictions, in transit in Cairo and railways. In the Suez Canal Zone 3000 oil workers went on strike. In the industrial region of Egypt, the delta where most of the Egyptian industry, it was reported a strike of 4,000 workers at a chemical plant at Al Nasr Helwan, 2,000 workers (in fact mostly workers) the textile factory in the same city, 2000 also factory Sigma Pharmaceuticals Quesna; in Al Mahalla, the capital of the textile industry, the epicenter of the struggle of 2007-2008, a general strike was triggered on February 10 at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Textile Factory, the biggest factory in Egypt, which employs 24,000 people, etc..
The claims relate to salaries, very low (the minimum wage is $ 70 per month), improved working conditions, hiring of temporary workers permanent, etc..
All these strikes, which we probably have a small preview, were triggered independently of the union official as a function of maintaining social peace and prevent workers' struggles. Still partial, they are of good augury for the future, provided that workers are able to organize on the basis of class, regardless of union structures not only sold to bosses and the bourgeois state and rejecting all false brothers who would use them for their bourgeois goals (such as those who stopped the strike at the Misr Spinning and Wearing Textiles Factory after Mubarak's departure). * * *
While Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, mortally afraid of the mass movement, have claimed any sequence their support to Mubarak, the U.S. government has stepped up pressure for a "peaceful political transition," that is to say that it gives way, only way to prevent clashes with incalculable risks: the fuse Mubarak would jump to protect capitalism from a high voltage shock outburst of class struggle in the greatest country in the Middle East could not fail to produce, with repercussions throughout the region. Within the plan, Mubarak's closest allies have probably toyed with the idea of an alternative to the Iranian or Chinese: the crushing of the protest, after the inevitable weariness has at least temporarily calmed the ardor of the demonstrators. The most influential bourgeois circles, those who are most represented among military leaders, have tried this scenario too risky, as was found on his side of American imperialism.
The Egyptian army was rapidly mobilized to crowd control, protect buildings, assets and basic services, while letting the police get their hands dirty in the repression. Completely absent from the first major events, the Muslim Brotherhood, the only significant opposition force that the government has allowed to develop, have tried to take the train: its role is irreplaceable tomorrow to maintain the bourgeois order. Today, military leaders, after announcing the dissolution of parliament and suspended the constitution, promising a return to civilian rule within six months, by which time they will develop a new constitution.
Whatever forms that will change in regime, the bourgeois political power remains intact in Egypt, or worse, the Army, the mainstay of this power, spring momentarily basking in the transition. But the Egyptian proletariat will learn quickly if they do not suspect it yet, it is against them that will mobilize Mubarak's successors, it will descend on them again that the repression of the police and army, and to defend their interests they will have to fight alone, without the petty-bourgeois democrats, nationalists and religious . In Tunisia after Ben Ali has been removed, a new government, led by the same Prime Minister, was set up so that nothing essential changes: the police evicted protesters who camped brutally in Tunis and continues to fire on the crowd (even 2 dead February 4), the capitalists continue to operate, while politicians are preparing for future electoral farce, Coronation hoped the restoration and strengthening of the bourgeois order.
This will inevitably even in Egypt. Already the Supreme Military Council appears to prohibit any meeting of labor organizations or unions, and in fact prohibiting strikes, and he should call for the resumption of work. The coming period will be the workers' struggles and the Egyptian proletariat will need in addition to their determination, solidarity with their class brothers in other countries.
Shaken by an unprecedented economic crisis, the capitalist world order reveals cracks around her. The future is the return of the proletarian struggle, not only in so-called "peripheral" but also in the capitalist countries 'central' richest where the consequences of the crisis have so far been largely amortized.
That will not happen in a day and will require workers of all countries spend a lot of energy and courage to resist as their fellow Egyptian and Tunisian law enforcement, to foil the false alternatives presented by the lackeys of the capitalist order and will require considerable effort to trace the path of class struggle and to constitute the governing body need of the proletarian struggle Revolutionary International, the world communist party, but if these efforts succeed, they will lead to the reappearance of the specter of communism. It will be possible to cry again: What
the bourgeois of all nations tremble at a Communistic revolution! The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
International Communist Party, 13/02/2011
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