From revolution to reaction in Egypt: Interview with Sameh Naguib

2016-02-21 · first published in The Guardian

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Sameh Naguib, a leading member of Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists, is interviewed by Eric Ruder on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising, with Sisi's forces raiding thousands of homes in central Cairo to forestall any commemoration. Naguib separates the causes into three layers: long-term structural ones rooted in the peculiarities of capitalist development in postcolonial Egypt, medium-term ones from the last decade of Mubarak's rule, and the immediate triggers that explain why the explosion came on Police Day of all days. From there he accounts for the counter-revolution's success in re-imposing authoritarian rule, and considers what prospect remains of a renewed wave of revolutionary resistance.

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