Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Yesterday, billionaire Naguib Sawiris expressed the frustration of business owners over the lockdown and quarantine measures taken to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the government decided to exempt factory workers from the lockdown so that investors can run their factories at total capacity despite the potential risks. […]
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists After ignoring doctors’ demands for years, President Sisi today decided to increase the medical professions allowance by 75%, equating to 525 EGP for doctors and 225 EGP for nurses. This meager increase comes when medical staff are valiantly responsible for facing the COVID-19 pandemic with weak and deteriorating resources due […]
Erklärung der revolutionären Sozialisten Der Staat muss eingreifen, um die Katastrophe der Entlassung von Arbeitern im privaten Sektor zu beenden. Die Arbeiter, die in Zeiten des Wohlstands die Profite der Kapitalisten erwirtschaften, werden heute unter dem Vorwand der Krise geopfert. In solchen Krisen wird klar, dass die Rechtfertigungen der Kapitalisten sich ihre Profite verdient haben, […]
Ali Taha Wer die Debatten um das Coronavirus und seine Ausbreitung verfolgt, word diejenigen finden, die das Phänomen als eine göttliche Bestrafung für die Menschheit betrachten, weil sie sich von Religion und Moral entfernt haben. Es gibt auch die, die es als Ergebnis einer kosmischen Verschwörung sehen werden (eine Amerikanische zum Beispiel, um China zu […]
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists The state must intervene to end the disaster of displacing private sector workers. The workers who generated profits for capitalists during times of prosperity are being sacrificed today under the pretext of the crisis. In such crises, the capitalists’ justifications fall apart—they claim to deserve profits because they bear the […]
Trotz der Unterbrechung der Schulen, der Aussetzung der Flüge, der Verringerung der Präsenz von Arbeitnehmern in der Regierung und im öffentlichen Sektor und der verschiedenen Maßnahmen des Staates angesichts der Corona-Epidemie reichen die Maßnahmen immer noch nicht aus, um den drohenden Gefahren zu begegnen, wenn sich die Epidemie ausdehnt, insbesondere angesichts der begrenzten Ausstattungen des […]
Despite the closure of schools, halting of flights, a reduction in workers’ presence in the public sector and government institutions, these and other measures taken by the state to fight the coronavirus epidemic will not be enough to deal with the imminent dangers if the virus continues to spread, particularly given the modest capacity of […]
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists Despite the suspension of schools, halting of flights, and reducing the presence of workers in the public and government sectors, as well as various other measures the state has taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, these steps are still insufficient to address the imminent dangers if the virus spreads further, […]
By: Artemis Désobiy Just when we think things can’t possibly get worse, we’re hit with 2020, the year that like most of its predecessors threatens to disrupt our fragile state of human affairs. Because the 2008 crisis didn’t impoverish us enough, the Ebola outbreak of 2014 didn’t traumafy us enough and the insane weather conditions […]
Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists This afternoon, police forces arrested Professor of Mathematics at Cairo University, Laila Soueif; the internationally renowned novelist and writer, Ahdaf Soueif; the human rights activist, Mona Seif; and the Professor of Political Science at the American University, Rabab El-Mahdi, in front of the Cabinet building where they organized a sit-in […]
