Around 100 independent trade unionists today held a protest in front of the headquarters of the state-backed Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions, denouncing its corrupt president Hussein Megawer, an NDP businessman close to the Mubarak’s clique. The protesters tried to enter the lobby of the building peacefully, only to be met with glass bottles, rocks, sticks and fire extinguishers from the EFTU thugs.
The military police arrived in the scene following half an hour of the ongoing clashes, and took away one of the EFTU thugs.
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
Charlie
February 15, 2011 - 12:15 AMThe best way to keep the revolution going is to keep up the strikes and to spread it to other countries.
Stay strong! brothers and sisters.