Egypt: The Regime Demands the Fall of the People

2012-06-28 · first published in marxsite · 207 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

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Jamie Allison ( New Left Project )

To describe the actions of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ( SCAF ) in Egypt during the second round of the presidential elections as a ‘coup’, although an understandable piece of political rhetoric, is not quite accurate. A coup is mounted against an existing ruling group. SCAF are the ruling group in Egypt, and their reversal by fiat of every democratic gain of the 25 th January revolution is designed to maintain them in that power. The correct word for this is ‘counter-revolution’.

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