Mass Rally Planned "For The Love of Egypt"

From: Al-Masry Al-Youm

On Sunday, 30 parties and political movements announced that they will participate in the rally planned for next Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The rally is called "Together for the love of Egypt."

A joint statement issued by the groups said the purpose of the rally is to call for a civil state, whereby all religious creeds are respected and all Egyptians are equal.

Hamada al-Kashef, a member of the Revolution Youth Union, said the rally is not a response to the mass rally staged by Islamists two weeks ago.

Among those who will participate are the National Association for Change, the April 6 Youth Movement, the Egyptian Communist Party, the Revolution Youth Union, Sufis, the Adl Party, the Egyptian Democratic Party and several Coptic coalitions.

Participants said they reject any attempts at dragging religion into politics or play on the Egyptians’ emotions.

The statement said the rally will be like a national carnival, opening with the largest collective iftar in the Middle East under the title "For the love of Egypt, together we break the fast and pray.” The banquet will extend from Abdel Moneim Riyad Square to Qasr al-Aini Street. Islamic and Coptic religious songs will be sung afterwards.

The statement said the objective is to call for completing the Egyptian revolution, which defended freedom, social justice and human rights.

It also called for a passing a law to criminalize discrimination, defending the rule of law, and drafting a constitution that safeguards the civil state.

Corporate Media Rewrite Egypt Events

By Caleb T. Maupin
Published May 9, 2011 8:46 PM

In the United States, big media, like all other powerful institutions in the economy, are owned by and operated for the capitalists. Pentagon contractor General Electric owns NBC and MSNBC. Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch owns the FOX network. Robert Eiger now owns the ABC-Disney-Pixar media cartel, taking over the role once held by racist, anti-communist Walt Disney.

Despite claims of “freedom” and “democracy,” U.S. television networks and major newspapers are nothing more than Wall Street’s and the Pentagon’s “Ministry of Information.” Just a few months after the Egyptian Revolution deposed President Hosni Mubarak, they are rewriting the entire history of this world-shaking event to suit their previous narrative of world politics.

From the day he took office, Mubarak was a U.S. client ruler.

Mubarak’s regime rigged elections, securing him 29 years of unchallenged rule. The CIA trained his secret police forces. Washington sent his government billions of dollars each year, mostly to the military, second in amount only to Israel.

The U.S. even looked to Mubarak’s secret police for its rendition program, allowing these thugs to conduct torture for the U.S. when technicalities of U.S. law tied its own hands.

Mubarak’s “National Democratic Party” had an official international relationship with the British Labor Party. Mubarak received praise and admiration from the U.S. for his role in repressing “extremists” who favored democracy and less cooperation with Israel and the United States.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made clear he did not believe Mubarak was a dictator, despite obvious reality.

All the major networks and newspapers featured “policy analysts,” including Fox’s soon-to-be-ex-analyst, the rabid Glenn Beck, who voiced fears that the popular revolution was “dangerous” and would create an opening for “Islamic radicals.”

When Mubarak refused to step down as millions took the streets, no cruise missiles were fired at his home. No trade embargo was placed on the country. There was no talk of a no-fly zone. Hillary Rodham Clinton reassured the world that the U.S.-backed dictator’s army was “practicing restraint.” (ABC News, Jan. 30) Clinton also made clear there was no intention of cutting off billions of dollars of aid. There would just be more discussion about reform while the brutal regime continued to be bankrolled by the U.S.

Despite the efforts of Washington to change a few faces at the top without changing the system, Wall Street’s hit man has been removed by a heroic, popular uprising. Workers’ councils have formed in the factories. Students and organized labor continue to resist as the military rules an uneasy, unstable, post-Mubarak Egypt.

After leaving office, Mubarak was not hanged or given a sham trial like Saddam Hussein. He is in no danger of having his relatives killed with NATO surgical air strikes like Moammar Gadhafi.

The new narrative

But despite reality, a new narrative is being constructed about Egypt, even though the same abuses of power continue in many countries throughout the Middle East.

The U.S.-backed autocracy in Bahrain commits brutal crimes against humanity, putting down a similar popular uprising. Though Washington funds Israel and backs the Saudi and Bahraini monarchies, it is still continually called a “defender of democracy” on every major TV channel.

Obama’s speech justifying bombing Libya repeatedly claimed the U.S. was acting for “humanitarian” reasons and “human rights.” Just naming a few of the brutal dictatorships the U.S. supports refutes this lie. But naming these names has never been part of the national image the U.S. media have created.

Even Jon Stewart, the sarcastic television commentator who often views the U.S. government with cynicism, featured a guest who claimed that the U.S. “inspired” the revolution by setting up English-speaking universities throughout Egypt.

Despite the fact that U.S.-made bullets killed protesters, U.S.-trained secret police tortured them, and the U.S. media denounced them as “terrorists” and “radical Islamists,” the U.S. supported the protesters all along? Give me a break.

Egyptian Communist Party Joins Public May 1st Events

From: A-lmasry Al-youm

The Egyptian Communist Party on Sunday announced that it would openly resume its activities and submit documents necessary for registering the party with the Committee for Political Parties' Affairs.

At a news conference in Tahrir Square on Sunday, party Chairman Salah al-Adly said that the 25 January revolution allowed the party to resume its work publicly after years of secrecy.

Adly went on to say that for decades, the Communist Party members had been exposed to "all types of repression, and arrests under false charges such as blasphemy and atheism."

He added that the party chose Tahrir Square on the occasion of Workers Day in order to “emphasize its alignment with the working class and Egypt’s poor."

He pointed out that the party’s main objectives are “achieving the revolution's demands by drafting a constitution for a civil state, rather than a religious or military one, which is based on democracy, and in which socialism and social justice are achieved.“

Adly said the party respects all religions, arguing that “charges of blasphemy leveled by the former regime were baseless.”

He said communists “believe in freedom of religion, which achieves equality between all citizens."

The party was established as a Marxist-Leninist organization in 1922 and operated secretly between 1924 and the mid-1960s, when it was dissolved. The party was reestablished in 1975.

Three leftist parties recently announced that they will conduct their activities in the open.

Since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, several previously banned groups have announced their intention to form parties without seeking official permission to do so.

Translated from the Arabic Edition

Egyptian Communist Party: Continue the Revolution, Protect It From Conspiracies

From: Egytian Communist Party - Google Translation

From this rather poor translation via google, what I gather is a strong rejection of calls simply to amend the 1971. The Communist Party is rather calling for a new constitution. Secondly, they are stressing that the sectarian, religious based violence going on is possibly linked with the remnants of the Mubbarack regime and could be used as a pretext for counter-revolution.

The Communist Party of Egypt was re-founded in 1975, and from what I can gather, seems to be ideologically in line with the Communist Party of Greece, promoting Anti-Revisionism. From what I can gather, the only other party in Egypt currently advocating worker's power is the "Revolutionary Socialists", an organization linked with the International Socialist Tenency of "neo-Trotskyists" such as the British SWP and the US ISO.

However, many groups promoting "Arab Socialism" or "Islamic Socialism" are present in Egypt, preaching politics similar to the former Nationalist Pro-Soviet Egyptian President Abdul Nasser or Mummar Gaddafi in Libya.

- Caleb T. Maupin


At a critical moment passes in which the country bridge the transition from dictatorship and corruption to the state of democracy and the rule of law and social justice; and after the triumph of the revolution and its success in achieving some of its demands and continuity in this critical transitional phase of drafting a new constitution and to provide freedoms and the elimination of remnants of the institutions of the former regime.

We view the counter-revolution by spreading chaos and intimidate citizens and lawlessness

And the use of the ugliest and most dangerous weapons fanning the flames of sectarianism, which reflected in the crime of burning and destruction of the Church of Saints in the village of access Batfaih and the subsequent violence and bullying has killed a large number of dead and wounded was meant to stoke the fires of sedition in the country and abortion revolution, the Egyptian people, and this counter-revolution led by elements of state security and the remnants of the National Party and businessmen of the stakeholders in the return of the old system and who use bullying and some of the forces disguised religion who Qdo their lives in dealing with the state security service and those who Kano until recently denied exit to the Governor and even disbelieve who takes him or pretend to him as According to the fatwa against one of their leaders and national youth demonstrations, which stood against Mubarak, such as the Revolution also use some of the elements of those falsely claiming the defense of Egyptian Christians and were satisfied with their cases on the trading screen satellite TV.

It is known that whoever is behind all this are the counter-revolutionary forces and their allies of the reactionary regimes and third parties hostile to the revolution, the Egyptian people.

There is no doubt also that the viability of state institutions to use the same old ways of Tboois beards and customary meetings have proved unsuccessful in practice in the treatment of these serious issues.

We stress that the face of this sedition and inciting them not only at activating the principle of citizenship and non-discrimination and rule of law and trial deterrent to the perpetrators and instigators of and change the general climate in the areas of education, culture and information and the need for religious institutions and political forces and civil society organizations in turn spread the values ​​of religious tolerance and freedom of thought, conscience and equality, rationality and scientific thinking. On the other hand, we warn against the misuse of the weapon sit, especially in the field of liberalization - the symbol of the revolution - the weapon which was the most important and spent Enas success and continuation of the revolution 25; so we reject the use of this weapon of some groups are individually, allowing the forces of counter-revolution in the revolution and tarnish the image of millions of peaceful demonstrations and Atsamtha heroic managed to impress and respect for the peoples of the world.

The insistence on the continuation of the sit-chaotic despite an agreement by all the forces and communities revolt against the suspension has led to the exploitation of other conspirators against the revolution in the provocation of Egyptian citizens and seek to involve the armed forces to use violence against citizens, we call upon all political forces and popular gatherings and youth need to respect Tools and means of revolution and use the form, which helps to ensure their success in achieving its objectives. I have met all the bats of darkness to form a single row of counter-revolution, which works on the demolition of the Egyptian revolution great and ignite the fire of sedition between the sons of one nation and bring us back to back and try to re-impose dictatorship and the corruption of the National Democratic Party of Egypt through the ignition chaos in order to keep the masses of the Egyptian people to discuss urgent issues of the revolution, especially the need to develop a new constitution and reject any amendments to the Constitution of 71, which was dropped by the revolution.

Continuation of the revolution start now requires a constitutional declaration for a transitional period and the formation of a presidential council of civilian and military (or the election of a civilian president for a transitional period selected)


And the election of Constituent Assembly representing the Egyptian people, all walks of life and trends in the political development of a new constitution and amend laws to ensure that the freedom to form parties and trade unions, associations, and the law on political rights and to hold parliamentary elections on the basis of existing comparative non-conditional with the need to define a clear timetable for this transition period ranging from one year to year and a half ago.

The home in a delicate stage you need to awareness and action, organized to educate the masses and to mobilize and organize new forms of democracy behind the demands of the revolution.

We therefore call upon all honest nation and people to uphold the demands of the revolution was great, and we call on the masses of the Egyptian people to participate in the march millions tomorrow Fri Constitution and national unity to thwart the conspiracies of the counter-revolution and the emphasis on the vitality and the continuing revolution of the Egyptian people to achieve the most important demands for a new constitution to achieve democracy and social justice.

Long live the revolution of January 25! Long Live Egyptian people's struggle for freedom and justice and human dignity!

March 10, 2011 the Egyptian Communist Party

Egytian Communist Party Resumes Public Activity

From: Bikya Masr

CAIRO: The Egyptian Communist Party has decided to resume public political activities and will create a party by the same name, the group said in a statement.

The party said this announcement comes in line with the new climate created by the 25 January Revolution; the statement came following a conference on Monday.

The move is also a prelude to continuing the communist struggle, which started in the early twenties of the last century, despite Egypt’s official exclusion of communism, which was imposed in parts by authoritarian regimes over the past decades, the statement added.

The Egyptian Communist Party, which was established in 1975, derives its legitimacy from the masses, said the statement. Its legitimacy come from its struggle and its historical association with the Egyptian working class, and also stems from the social aspirations and political development of the Egyptian people and the laborers who are eager for a new society full of freedom, justice and dignity and to get rid of dependency.

The party plans to hold its Fourth General Congress in the coming period, which would be the group’s first conference after announcing its activities to the public. The congress will set a work plan and a program aimed at achieving the objectives of the revolution in the next phase.

The birth of this party will make it the fourth leftist party in the Egyptian political arena, which has witnessed the establishment of a number of new parties. The parties are waiting obtain their official licenses following the amendment of the political parties law, which will take place following the referendum on constitutional amendments to take place on Saturday.

The parties waiting to receive their licenses include the People’s Alliance Party, the Egyptian Socialist Party, and the Democratic Labor Party of Egypt.

Sara Flounders: "Revolt in the Arab World"

Statement from the Communist Party of Egypt

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The Lebanese Communist Party has published a statement by the Communist Party of Egypt, sent from Tahrir Square during the "Million Man March" on February 1, 2011. Below is a basic and unofficial translation by the GPF (Gaza Peace and Freedom) blog.
The revolution will continue until the demands of the masses are fulfilled

Statement issued by the Communist Party of Egypt

February 1, 2011 -- The moment of truth is approaching. This is the decisive moment for the Egyptian popular forces for change; to topple the Mubarak regime. It seems that the imperialists, and their American masters in particular, are lifting their hands from him after the continuation of revolution everywhere in Egypt.

Today millions emerge to demand the departure of Mubarak. They will prevent all the conspiracies of the dictator and his gang of spies to thwart the revolution and overcome them.

The formation of a committee, which enjoys the confidence of the people and the demonstrators, is crucial to achieve the demands of the political, economic and social revolution, and we emphasise the basic demands presented by the national forces to the deputies of the people's parliament:

1. Dismissal of Mubarak and the formation of a presidential council for a transitional period of limited duration.

2. Forming a coalition government to administer the country during the transitional period.

3. To convene the election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for the country based on the principle of the sovereignty of the nation and ensure the devolution of power within the framework of a democratic just civil state.

4. Prosecute those responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries of revolutionary martyrs and victims of oppression as well as ensuring the prosecution of those responsible for plundering the wealth of the Egyptian people.

5. Long live the revolution of the Egyptian people

February 1, 2011 - Cairo