E60: The Bread Intifada, part 2
Working Class History
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The Revolution in Egypt in 1977
In response to sedat's lifting of subsidies, there was a huge wave of wild cat strikes throughout egypt in her and by nine a m thousands of workers had walked out. The events started, as i said, by scattered protests on the night of the seventeenth of january, and they were all wildcat protests, here and there. But comes the morning and the entire country is on strike. Was called for by any trade union? Actually no, because in egypt we did not have independent trade unions. Perse this was because nase had smashed the independent labor movement when he came to power. Hossam goes into this in a little more detail in ourbonus episode
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