The Role of the Egyptian Working Class in Mubarak's Ouster

<span class="abs_content">The downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt has often been portrayed as a ‘pure event’ - that is, something restricted to a couple of weeks in a single and specific square. This article seeks to direct-ly challenge this standard narrative, which has focu...

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Autor principal:	Gianni Del Panta
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:29303ab56a894c0092760d09a5e1684d2021-11-21T15:11:39ZThe Role of the Egyptian Working Class in Mubarak's Ouster1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v9i2p614https://doaj.org/article/29303ab56a894c0092760d09a5e1684d2016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/16319https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt has often been portrayed as a ‘pure event’ - that is, something restricted to a couple of weeks in a single and specific square. This article seeks to direct-ly challenge this standard narrative, which has focused simply on what happened in Tahrir, arguing instead that Mubarak’s ouster from power was the result of longstanding anti-regime struggles that developed throughout the 2000s. In the implicit formation of that cross-class and cross-ideological coalition that even-tually defeated the regime, a crucial role was played by workers’ mobilizing against neoliberal policies. There are three main reasons for this: a) since the late 1990s workers were the most serious challenge to Mubarak’s regime; b) during the now famous eighteen days of relentless protests, workers were at the fore-front in the Nile Delta centers, as well as an important element in Tahrir; and finally c) when public enter-prises were re-opened on February 6, an unprecedented wave of strikes paralyzed the country, forcing the military to oust Hosni Mubarak in order to deflect the growing social soul of the uprising</span><br />Gianni Del PantaCoordinamento SIBAarticlearab uprisingsegyptmubaraktahrirworking classPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 614-639 (2016)
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description	<span class="abs_content">The downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt has often been portrayed as a ‘pure event’ - that is, something restricted to a couple of weeks in a single and specific square. This article seeks to direct-ly challenge this standard narrative, which has focused simply on what happened in Tahrir, arguing instead that Mubarak’s ouster from power was the result of longstanding anti-regime struggles that developed throughout the 2000s. In the implicit formation of that cross-class and cross-ideological coalition that even-tually defeated the regime, a crucial role was played by workers’ mobilizing against neoliberal policies. There are three main reasons for this: a) since the late 1990s workers were the most serious challenge to Mubarak’s regime; b) during the now famous eighteen days of relentless protests, workers were at the fore-front in the Nile Delta centers, as well as an important element in Tahrir; and finally c) when public enter-prises were re-opened on February 6, an unprecedented wave of strikes paralyzed the country, forcing the military to oust Hosni Mubarak in order to deflect the growing social soul of the uprising</span><br />
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The Role of the Egyptian Working Class in Mubarak's Ouster

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