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Egypt: Hundreds dead as military tries to consolidate power in blood

September 4, 2013 Robert Bechert

Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed people in the Egyptian military’s brutal clearance of the two pro-Morsi […]

Egypt: Polarisation grows – No trust in the generals

August 25, 2013 Robert Bechert

Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The stormy and bloody developments since the removal and arrest of President Morsi by the military mark a new, challenging and dangerous stage in the unfolding Egyptian revolution. Despite the huge, unprecedented mass mobilization against Morsi the absence of an independent, socialist based […]