Egyptian Labor Erupting
Against The Current vol. 142
Said, Atef
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2365
Date Written: 2009-09-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13552
In April 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal trials for “planning the April 6th strike in 2008.”
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