Poster: Long Live the Egyptian Revolution
Posted by Mike E on February 3, 2011
Posted by Tim Simons who writes:
“Please do whatever you want with this poster! Repost it on facebook, blogs, twitter etc or print out the high res version (it is sized at 11×17″). My only concern is that it gets passed around and hopefully can be put to some use.”
Green Red said
I do not have the faintest idea about its past, history and international stands during the cold war but, this statement was fair enough:
Statement issued by the Egyptian Communist Party
The revolution will continue until the demands of the masses are achieved
Statement issued by the Egyptian Communist Party
The revolution will continue until the demands of the masses are achieved
The hour of truth is near and the decisive moment has arrived when the Egyptian people pronounce their final word asserting the need to bring down Mubarak and change his regime. It seems that the life of the regime of tyranny especially that its American masters have taken their hands off in the wake of the continuing revolution of the people and its escalation everywhere in Egypt.
The millions of people who have come out today to demand the departure of Mubark will ensure the defeat of all the conspiracies of the dictator and his gang who aim to thwart the revolution and to circumvent it.
The agreement to form a committee that enjoys the confidence of the people and the demonstrators is a critical issue for achieving the political, economic and social demands of the revolution. And we stress the basic demands approved by the patriotic forces represented in the people’s parliament:
1 – The removal of Mubarak and the formation of a presidential council for a transitional period of specified duration.
2 – The formation of a coalition government that assumes the management of the country during the transitional period.
3 – To call for the formation of an elected constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for the country, based on the principle of the sovereignty of the nation and ensuring the devolution of power within the framework of a just democratic civil state.
4 – To prosecute those responsible for hundreds killed and injured among the martyrs of the Revolution and victims of security oppression, as well as prosecuting those responsible for plundering the wealth of the Egyptian people.
Long live the revolution of the Egyptian people
Cairo – 1st February 2011
Source?
http://egyptian.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/statement-issued-by-the-egyptian-communist-party/
jfsp said
Who knows if it will be Power to the People or another authoritarian state, a Theocratic dictatorship, or worse. We can hope for better but I’m not so optimistic as most people seem to be.
Mike E said
JFSP writes:
I agree that the chances of “Power to the People” are small in Egypt. Though I don’t assume that most people expressing excitement assume there will be some easy or automatic popular victory.
To seize an opportunity, there has to be organized and conscious forces to seize it. And in the absence of that, someone else will seize it, sooner or later, one way or another.
But there are other reasons to be excited:
First, this is the training of a generation. Even if they don’t win this round, such events can produce those kinds of secular revolutionary circles that can (in future crises) content for power. (In marxist analogies: This may be a 1905, even if it is unlikely to become a 1917.)
Second, the uprising in Egypt will have a tremendous encouraging role all over the world — so that even if the Egyptian people don’t find their way to a new, revolutionary and socialist path (this time), the example of these days will echo. Just one example: There is an intense debate among Nepali revolutionaries over whether the international situation is to hostile for their revolution to succeed. And so their debates over the timing and need for a new uprising is tied to assessments of the international situation. Well, the events in many places show that the international situation is hardly uniformly hostile, and that it can’t simply be evaluated by the views of various imperialists and hostile governments — the people too are an international factor.
So yes, there are reasons to suspect that it will be hard for the Egyptian rebels to successfully achieve a much needed radical change. But those are not the only issues involved. Or the only reasons for optimism.
Gary said
The millions massing in Egypt do not, it is true, have much grounding in Marxist theory. They may feel a deep revulsion against imperialism (mixed in some cases with a kind of fatalism that weakens the will to resist)but they aren’t armed with the ideas that could lead them towards a genuine revolution in the sense of a change in class rule. Nevertheless they’re showing, day after day, that it’s “right to rebel.”
This is the most mass-based, genuine, revolutionary movement to ever occur in the Arab world. It’s very spontaneity and formal disorganization is inspiring. If even without a communist party, without democratic centralism, people can organize popular committees to defend against thugs in neighborhoods, establish clinics at protest sites, and organize counter-attacks against the dying regime’s thugs, think of how much they could do with Marxist leadership.
The pattern here as I see it has been:
Jan 15-19. The people versus the police. The people won.
Jan 19-Feb. 2. The Army called in; welcomed by the people, although the people increasingly concerned about the Army’s stance as they called on the people to go home, and warned them about the threat of regime-backed thugs.
Feb 2 to now: The Army allowing the thugs to attack the people, but also intervening to “separate” the small groups of armed pro-Mubarak forces from the people, while again calling on people to go home
There are plainly divisions at every level of Egyptian society and the Army leadership itself may be divided. The people repeatedly call on their “brothers” in the Army to join them, and maybe they will. But what does it mean to join together?
A committee of ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood member, and general seems the most likely outcome. And maybe most of those protesting would accept this. Maybe the Obama administration and the EU too. Israel will be very upset.
chicanofuturet said
Recent Egyptian history has seen a passing parade of movements and parties calling themselves the always fine sounding names- “Democracy”,”Socialism”..
Fine sounding words which eventually became covers for corruption,reaction and repression.
It will not be an easy task for Egyptian communists and socialists to overcome the deep seated suspicion and doubt of the people the memory of decades of betrayal by those frauds who once carried the banners with the names “Democracy” “Socialism” written upon them.
The negative effects of this same treachery can also be found in different variations worldwide-principally because of the betrayal and corruption of Socialism in the former USSR and the PRC..
The future struggle of Egyptian communists,socialists will most likely become a struggle against many different tentacles of reaction,repression and exploitation.
Fraudulent,corrupt opportunists calling themselves Democrats and Socialists-wannabe Mubaraks,Islamic fundamentalists who desire to dominate life through Sharia law and other ancient Islamic moral and civil codes,hegemonic precepts which are antithetical to true democracy,socialism and independence,US imperialism wanting to exploit and manipulate Egypt for it’s own geopolitical interests and whose role is significantly as protector of it’s Zionist junior partners in Israel.
In time the struggle in Egypt will escalate, contradictions deepen,as the forces of tyranny will fight to gain political supremacy and total control of power.This will no doubt evolve into armed struggle-a resistance movement against repression and corruption,
a resistance movement fighting for true civil,human,economic,democratic rights.
It’s up to Egyptian communists and socialists to create a massive project-an exponentially greater movement of education,led by example,of what Democracy and Socialism really mean.
Socialism can only live in an environment,an immersion of mass public education,awareness and consciousness which is always electric,alive and switched-on.
And yes,modern technology will help Socialism thrive and be relevant at all times.
Worldwide,Communists and progressives can do much to help their comrades in Egypt by expressing solidarity and support through actions and words alike.Just like the poster says…
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
STRIKE FEAR IN THE HEARTS OF AUTHORITARIANS ACROSS THE GLOBE!
Green Red said
As far as through links i have fished this Egyptian party is listed along with worst flavours of revisionists that are from CPI and CPI M of India up to Tudeh Party of Iran (that worked – and still in a way works – with the Iran regime) and CP USA.
If you want to get more worried, yes, including CP of Nepal UML….
But Mike is correct that changing in Egypt counts for the world movement. Every action is a lesson. Not only to the ones who win and lose reading their own errors and betrayals but, to the ones with more ammunition of mass base, revolutionary plan and popular support
Bloody US John R Bolton writes in LA Times saying did you see what mess Carter made when Islamists overthrew Shah of Iran and Carter didn’t do shit about it? This is what is happening in Egypt right now and it is all fault of second coming of Carter!
I think he is an idiot and fact of the matter is that the US lacks the nuts and guts of doing too much of a thing in Egypt except begging Mubarak to kindly pass the power to another puppet punk since, as Time writers point out too, see what remains when US takes a regime out itself in Iraq instead of letting people of a nation define their own destiny without american bombs
land said
Great poster. I will do my best to make it visible.
Stiofan O'Buadhaigh said
This is a great poster and today watching the coverage of Al Jazeera, I saw a photo of a man in Tahrir Square holding a sign that read, “Power to the People.” Whatever the limitations and difficulties, we are witnessing a revolution and millions around the world have been made aware that revolution. This means it is possible here ubder conditions we willnit be able to choose either.