Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists With wages that barely meet subsistence levels, legislation that undermines workers’ rights, and persecution targeting labor leaders, Egypt’s workers mark Labor Day under grim conditions. After years of struggle for the right to work, fair wages, and freedom of organization, the Egyptian working class remains deprived of its most basic […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists The “Popular Campaign to Protect the Land” expresses its strong condemnation of the arrest campaign carried out by security forces over the past two days, targeting dozens of young people and university students in various governorates. This represents an attempt at a preemptive strike against the peaceful protests planned for […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Workers of Egypt, this issue isn’t just about two islands (Tiran and Sanafir) that the regime handed over to Saudi Arabia in exchange for a bit of aid—far from it. This issue is much bigger than that. It’s about our people who gave their lives defending these islands while resisting […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists The rabid security crackdown continues in response to the success of the “Friday of the Land” protests amidst an unprecedented state of division and confusion within the corridors of the regime, its security apparatus, and state institutions. As of the writing of this statement, hundreds of young people are being […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Few movements or political parties have faced as much defamation, attack, and hostility as the April 6 Youth Movement—our comrades in the struggle and the revolution—from the ruling authorities over the past five years of revolution and counterrevolution. The comrades on April 6 have made countless sacrifices, from martyrs to […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Despite repression, arrests, and the protest ban law, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets today to protest the military dictator Sisi’s decision to surrender the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to his Gulf masters. The protesters’ chants widened to encompass far more than the issue of the islands, rising […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime is built on a series of crimes against the majority of the Egyptian people, beginning with his bloody coup in July 2013, followed by the massacres of that dark summer. Then came successive waves of arrests—not only of the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters but of […]

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Sisi’s regime seems no longer even concerned with keeping its lies believable. By surrendering the islands of Tiran and Sanafir in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, the last fig leaf has fallen from the falsehood of so-called “national sovereignty.” Sisi inherited this grand deception from his mentor—ousted dictator Mubarak—whom […]