Not an Accident… but a Crime of the Regime

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists

The Revolutionary Socialists mourn the death of eighteen girls who lost their lives yesterday in a road accident on the regional highway in the Menoufia Governorate. The movement offers its sincere condolences to the families of the girls, victims of a class-based system.

Eighteen girls, aged between 14 and 23, were killed in a horrific traffic accident while heading to temporary work for a wage of 130 EGP. The minibus transporting them collided with a trailer truck, leading to a tragic end. But this was not a random incident—it was the natural result of a repressive, authoritarian regime that practices exploitation even in the most minor details of people’s lives.

These girls were not just “workers,” but victims of a capitalist and patriarchal system that forces them to leave their homes daily under inhumane conditions in search of a living. In the absence of any protections or regulations, they are exploited through the worst forms of unsafe labor, while their lives are silently consumed, with no prospects for the future.

This accident is yet another link in a long chain of tragedies that expose this murderous system. The deteriorating roads and chaotic transportation are not mere “traffic errors” but a direct outcome of the state abandoning its duty to protect its citizens. Road construction is carried out without proper planning and implemented through direct orders, without oversight and accountability, confirming that the regime cares only about its interests.

Who is responsible? A parliament that remained silent, with no fundamental questioning. A government that took no genuine steps toward accountability. And the continued disregard by those in power reproduces this bitter reality daily.

Who mourns these girls? Who remembers them? Not the regime, nor the elite, nor even a society that remains silent in the face of this ongoing massacre.
These lives will have no value unless we raise our voices against this injustice.
The Revolutionary Socialists call on Egypt’s labor and political movements to push for the immediate dismissal of the Ministers of Labor, Transportation, and Industry. The movement also calls on these forces to organize themselves to fight against the system of impoverishment and tyranny—a system that accumulates profit from the labor of children.

Let us struggle together against the conditions that forced these girls into work. Let us pledge to our martyrs—the martyrs of the working class and their children—that we will continu