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Egypt: "It's not a protest anymore, it's a revolution".

vast minority | 22.11.2011 20:38

ASTONISHING video footage is emerging from Cairo, where protesters are braving toxic chemical gases and even live bullets as they fight to protect democracy and the revolution.

Huge numbers gathered in Tahrir Square on Tuesday, with adjacent side streets filled with what was virtually civil war, as the state attacked opponents of the SCAF military regime.

A televised speech by Mohamed Tantawi, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, did nothing to halt the mood of rebellion, with its echoes of Mubarak's final days.

The mood of the protesters today can be seen in these messages appearing on Twitter under the hashtag of the revolution, #jan25:

This is different than #Jan25 somehow. Less chanting/signs and more battle-like. Its not a protest anymore, it's a revolution. #tahrir

a friend who never supported #jan25: "I support tahrir. Today I can say tahrir is only true & honest thing in #egypt" it made me cry...

Today is the happiest for me sice #jan25 ,today my fiancee joins the revolution and we are going to #tahrir hand in hand :)

2,000,000+ now in #tahrir, I guess that didn't even happen in #jan25 days !! #Egypt #noSCAF

Dear US Government, We don't hate you because we hate your freedom. We hate you because you hate our freedom. #Tahrir #Egypt #Jan25

For video see  http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/11/gunfire-in-cairo-raw-video.html
and  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dTpYaR6KDcQ

vast minority
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A revolution?

23.11.2011 10:19

Is this really a 'revolution'? Is there a change of system with a new system emerging or just a change of face in government? Two different things. Bearing in mind also that the U.S. played the largest hand in all these so-called colour revolutions including the ones in eastern europe 20 odd years ago. There has been no revolution in egypt, people have not taken power in thier own hands and changed lives for the better, but only trumpeted on about freedom and democrasy, typical pro-american demands.

Fb


Definition of Revolution.

25.11.2011 20:03

A revolution is more than an uprising. A revolution takes the oppressing class out of power and puts the liberating majority in power. The constant majority in each and every country is the worker-peasant-student alliance, and it is being suppressed in Egypt by the neo-colonial officiers trained and supplyied with sophisticated weaponry by the U.S. Imperialists.
The press-ganged soldier of the so-called lower classes and ranks, which consist of the unemployed and poor working classes are not in full solidarity with the white army arrangement such as the colonial minded officier castes which treat them abusively and as inferiors.
The revolution will succeed when it wins the common soldiers to the just cause of the worker-peasant-student alliance, and that includes the electing of women equally or trade union speak, Gender Parity 50-50 electing throughout the system. The courts belong to the majority people when the people take them out of the hands of their minority oppressors.

Then the removing of the Quisling arrangements of betraying officers commanding the police and army units to oppress and kill and wound the majority people throughout Egypt will take place.
Mercifully the revolution will put the overthrown castes to working for a living such as growing carrots, oinions, and potatoes, organically on communes, and end prisons forever. Workers of the world, unite!!

Hans B.


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