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Month: August 2016

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Full Support for the Struggle of Ceramic Workers in 10th of Ramadan City to Obtain Their Financial Rights

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists The undersigned express their complete solidarity with the struggle of the ceramic workers on the 10th of Ramadan City, Sharqia Governorate. This struggle involves workers from around 12 companies, employing approximately 20,000 workers, in their fight against economic policies that deepen poverty for the poor while enriching the wealthy. This […]

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Value-Added Tax: The Counter-Revolution’s Regime Exploits the Poor

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists The counter-revolution regime has imposed yet another burden on the poor and working class. After lifting the load off the wealthy by abolishing the wealth tax on incomes exceeding one million pounds, reducing the maximum income tax rate from 30% to just 22.5%, and freezing the stock market tax to […]

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Brief aus Gefängnis: „Generäle haben Ägypten dem Ausverkauf preisgegeben“

Der Arbeitsrechtler und Aktivist der Revolutionären Sozialisten in Ägypten (RS), Haitham Mohamedain, wurde am 22. April vom Militärregime wegen seiner Beteiligung an den Protesten gegen den Ausverkauf der Inseln Tiran und Sanafir an Saudi-Arabien verhaftet. Aus dem Gefängnis hat er einen Brief an seine Unterstützer_innen verfasst. An die Menschen in Ägypten, an die Jänner-Revolutionäre, an […]

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Haitham Mohamedain writes from prison: “the generals have put Egypt up for sale”

Letter from Haitham Mohamedain, 29 July 2016 To the Egyptian people, to the January revolutionaries, to the dear comrades. Our struggle against the sale of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to the Saudi Kingdom is inseparable from the goals of the January revolution. When we chanted “he who sells Sanafir and Tiran, will tomorrow sell […]

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We Will Not Pay Your Bills

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists In a new attack on people experiencing poverty, the Sisi regime has raised household electricity consumption rates across all brackets by up to 40%, continuing its pressure on Egypt’s poor and middle classes, who have nothing left to give after the regime has placed the entire burden of the crisis […]