I uploaded more pix of the Nile Cotton Ginning Co workers’ Sunday protest in downtown Cairo…
Thirty days have passed since the Union of Real Estate Tax Authority employees handed in their papers to the Labor Ministry. According to Egyptian labor law, if the Ministry had any reservations or reasons for rejecting the union they should have announced it during that period of time… which hasn’t happened.
This means, with local and international recognition secured, the Labor Ministry has no other choice but to deal with the free union activists as the legitimate representatives of the 55,000 Real Estate Tax Collectors.
From the summer of 1992 till the beginning of 1993, as Trotskyist study groups and cells were coalescing to launch the Revolutionary Socialists’ Tendency, four issues of a tiny publication were produced by the involved activists back then, titled “Al-’Amel Al-Ishtraki,” (Socialist Worker).. With poor resources and limited political experience the young comrades had, these newsletters signaled the start of Egypt’s “Fourth Communist Wave”…
Scanned copies of the first three issues are now available online in PDF format:
The Emergency Medics are resuming their sit-in, after the management betrayed the agreement…
The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued a report on the terrible working conditions of the Railway Workers in el-Wahat…
El-Wahat Railway Workers العاملين بإدارة هندسة السكة الحديد بالواحات البحرية
More resources on the Egyptian railway workers in Arabic and English could be found here…
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