[Marxism] "Resistance in Egypt"

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* Hossam el-Hamalawy,  - 
 
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These female workers, after marching in the compound,  stormed the sectors of 
the company that have their male colleagues working in  the spinning and 
weaving, chanting, "Where are the men? Here we are, the women!"  -- which is 
originally a football chant that they have changed -- and they  shamed the male 
colleagues into action. That's when their male colleagues laid  down their tools, 
and the entire textile mill went on strike. They occupied the  factory for 
three days despite security intimidation and they won. But from the  moment when 
they won, they triggered the so-called winter of labor discontent in  Egypt, 
where virtually all the textile mills in the Nile Delta went on strike,  
demanding the same gains as those of Ghazl el-Mahalla.
 
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