What a fantastic achievement, toppling a dictator of thirty years pedigree. Even the BBC admitted in their live broadcast, the Egyptians did it on their own. Their challenge is to the whole western, capitalist power system.
In this last week of the revolution the Egyptian working class came into its own, and the regime really began to sway (90 odd years ago do you think there were pompous middle class bods calling the Russian Revolution a "telephone revolution"? All this stuff about twitter and facebook is just the mass media gazing in awe at its own reflection). The workers in Suez sound especially dynamic.
But wouldn't it be a shame if, after all this, the Egyptian working class simply went back to work? As has been said "in case you do not know it egyptians are among the hardest working people on the globe already".
Now is the time to make good this new freedom, before anyone can take it away. Now is the time for permanent revolution.
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