June 30 Revolution...
Its Nature, Duties and Prospects
1.
June Revolution, correcting the course of January Revolution
The
Revolution of June 30, 2013
is the more profound and mature second wave to correct the path of the revolution
of January 25 2011 ;
and to offset the greatest danger suffered by Egypt
The
Deal-Plot which was made to abort the January 25 revolution was based on enthronement
of the Muslim Brotherhood as rulers of the largest Arab country and empowering them
politically in the region in exchange for manipulating them to serve American-Zionist
schemes and their integration into capitalist globalization policies and the
continuing neoliberal approach associated with world monopolies. Muslim
Brotherhood has been ready for this, as it was they who secured the unprecedented
Armistice Agreement between Hamas and Israel Jerusalem Israel
One
of the objectives of imperialist projects of in the Middle
East is the establishment of states on religious grounds, to serve
mainly Zionist plan to declare Israel
We
have seen clear and visible signs in Egypt after the rule of Muslim Brotherhood
in a series of attacks on churches as well as the attack on St. Mark's Cathedral
for the first time in history since the introduction of Islam into Egypt, also the
brutal attack on the Shiites in the village of "Abu Nomros", killing and
dragging four of them in a precedent first of its kind; and Declaration of
Jihad in the stadium, calling for the supply of mercenary terrorists to the war
in Syria, as well as proliferation of groups of "Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice", and the emergence of types of lynch and suspension of
bodies on light poles. If we add to this the continuing series of torture in
sit-ins in Rabea and Nahda at the hands of militias, the Muslim Brotherhood and
their allies, we find ourselves in front an outlawed barbaric savage scenario without
the right to differ. The aim so became that we terminate ourselves by ourselves,
and that our punishment goes to our bodies not to the real enemies.
Thus
we were destined to get to this miserable fate, but awareness, vigilance and
greatness of the Egyptian people saved Egypt Egypt Egypt United States
Perhaps
this is what explains the hectic movement and shuttle flights of Ashton and Barnes
and other officials to Egypt
We
regard the Egyptian people's revolution on June 30 as correcting the path of
the January 25 revolution and an extension of all phases of the national
democratic revolution that began with the Orabi Revolution in 1881 and
continued through the 1919 revolution and the revolution in 1952...
The
June 30 revolution came to accomplish the historical tasks of this unfinished revolution
which are overdue, especially after the wave of overall reactionary apostasy that
swept Egypt and the region since the mid-seventies and lasted for more than 30
years and what happened during it of collapse of the Arab liberation movement as
well as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of current religious
fascist religious rightist trend under authoritarian regimes perched on the
breath of our peoples for decades.
The
contradiction in Egypt now is not just a contradiction between the forces of
political opposition and a despotic reactionary group that came to power and
failed governance of the country, but rather the contrast is reflected deeper
among the majority of the masses of the Egyptian people and their national and
democratic political forces on the one hand and the forces of the fascist religious
right led by Muslim Brotherhood which represent the greatest threat to the
future of the nation and the revolution on the other.
Therefore,
the January revolution and its second wave in June is seeking to complete the national
independence from all forms of dependency and complying with US and imperialist
countries. This would not be achieved without economic, social and cultural
comprehensive development basically self-reliant. On the other hand it is a
democratic revolution establishing a democratic civil state on the basis of a Constitution
protecting freedoms and political economic, social and cultural rights of
citizens and ensuring popular control and participation as well as freedom to
form political parties, trade unions and associations with an emphasis on the separating
religion from politics and prohibition of religious parties. This revolution,
most importantly, has its social aspect which is based on redistribution income
and wealth in the society in the interest of the majority of the toiling masses,
protecting the rights of the poor and vulnerable groups in the society and enabling
workers and peasants to form their trade unions to ensure the revolution continuation
in achieving its goals and move them to a higher stage in the path of social
revolution for the benefit of the working classes.
Our
analysis of the nature of contradiction in present moment and the nature of the
basic tasks of June 30 Revolution as an important decisive stage of the stages
of national democratic revolution moves us to the need to put a correct political
map of alliances in the current stage. We see the need for continued alliance of
all national democratic forces to face the danger of religious fascism and
therefore the need to maintain the National Salvation Front and its core of political
parties and trends (liberal, national and leftist), responding to attempts to
solve or weaken this front on the pretext of ending its mission, which will be
realized only after success in eliminating the risk of fascist forces, with
continued emphasis on the fact that alliance of socialist and progressive forces
and the unity of their struggle is the guarantee for the continuation of this wide
front and stopping the hesitance of all forces that do not want to confront the
rule of Muslim Brotherhood. Again the unity of youth revolutionary movements
and co-ordinations and avoiding escalation of any internal contradictions among
them is a very important issue to ensure a correct compass during the
transition period with the need to involve young people effectively in judgment
institutions to be trained to take over basic responsibilities in the next
phase.
We
must evaluate what happened on June 30 objectively and correctly, rejecting any
tendentious positions aiming at distorting the historic achievement of the
Egyptian people of forces of counter-revolution represented by Muslim
Brotherhood and their allies from the forces of fascist religious right at home
and their allies abroad of imperialist countries in the United States Europe . These are the ones that hastened
to describe what happened as a "military coup"... If this is normal
from enemies of the revolution and it is understandable when put by many forces
and movements that hold the stick from the middle to achieve their own narrow
interests and selfish objectives. Yet it is curious that they share the same view
with some forces that claim revolutionary leftist based on categories of rigid historical
dogmas, reserved molds and fixed clichés which they reiterate on the military, the
military rule and military coups without analyzing the concrete reality and
verification of real-life facts and actual practices on the ground, which
emphasizes that what happened was a popular revolution with which the Egyptian
army sided. We should also analyze the historical attitudes of the Egyptian
army instead of arbitrary application of rigid texts on the ground. In some
moments we should learn from the lessons and experiences provided by our
Egyptian people by their sound nature and revolutionary sense. Most dangerous is
that this wrong position distorts attention from the main enemy of the popular masses
at the present moment, which is the risk of the fascist religious right and their
terrorist schemes in Sinai and deployment of supporters in desperate serious attempts
to attack the revolution of the Egyptian people and circumvent their will to
overthrow the rule of Muslim Brotherhood and correct the course of the
revolution and put a new constitution and take urgent social procedures.
On
the other hand we also have to stand firmly in the face of symbols of Mubarak
regime supporters and their media organs who want to write off the January
revolution out of history and distort it in order to justify the sins of
Mubarak regime and evade their responsibility thereof and load Brotherhood with
all cons of the previous stage. We assure had it not been for the January 2011 revolution,
the people would not have succeeded in June 30 Revolution and would not be able
to reveal the crimes of the obscurantist power trading in religion. Therefore,
we reiterate our emphasis that June 30 revolution is the second deeper and more
mature wave of the January 25 revolution. It is a correction of its track. Toppling
the rule of Muslim Brotherhood does not mean never to return to the practices
and crimes of Mubarak regime. The revolution of June 30 shall complete what the
January 25 revolution failed to accomplish and struggle to sweep all
disadvantages of Mubarak regime and that of Muslim Brotherhood. It is a confirmation
that we want to drop the core of these regimes and demolish the foundations
upon which they were established and building a new system to achieve the goals
and aspirations of our people and what it requires of radical change in policies,
practices and institutions to lay the foundations for new situations based on
enlightened liberation national culture freeing the people from all aspects of
impoverishment, exploitation, backwardness, ignorance and extremism and ending
discrimination on the basis of religion, gender or ethnicity.
2.
Our Position of the Transitional Phase and its Entitlements
We
believe that the transitional phase and the Declaration of a map of the future,
despite our reservations on some aspects as well as on the key points in the
recent constitutional declaration, but we emphasize that it lays the foundation
for a new era and is based on the revolutionary legitimacy of millions of
revolution of the Egyptian people on June 30. If you are the legitimate main
objective revolutionary overthrow the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and their
allies, and at the same time working to build a new system completed to achieve
the national democratic objectives of January Revolution.
Accordingly,
we must not lose sight of the fact that the struggle for terminating the Brotherhood
regime and remnants of Mubarak regime is the main task of this revolutionary
legitimacy besides the quest for formation of an alternative regime and
concrete actions to install and expand the social basis of the revolution. It must
be understood also that the government, which was formed on the basis of this
revolutionary legitimacy must loyal first to the demands of the popular will
that took to the streets on June 30 and 26 July and its primary role is to use
all the means to implement this will and offset any obstacles before its achievement.
Our opinion is that the policies of transitional government are still far from
the spirit of this revolutionary legitimacy. It still has that traditional slow
rhythm as if it came in normal conditions. This is reflected also in clear
positions of indecisiveness and inaction in the face of the forces of terror
and extremism. Some senior officials in the institutions of the transitional
authority speak about national reconciliation and the need to integrate Muslim
Brotherhood in the political process without distinguishing between murderer terrorist
cadres and leaders of Muslim Brotherhood and their normal fans, in a manner
incompatible with the revolutionary legitimacy and contradicting the will of
the people. We emphasize the need to correct these situations quickly because
to continue in this situation, hesitation and slowdown would lead to erosion and
weakening of revolution and give chance to its opponents and enemies to
gradually regain their balance. This would not be permitted by the Egyptian
people and their revolutionary youth political forces which must remain present
in the fields and squares of revolution monitoring the government performance
to guarantee the execution of their revolutionary will. On the other hand, there
must be a strong clear expression from the transitional authority for the
independence of Egyptian decision and respect for national sovereignty being free
from dependency on America and starting to diversify arm sources and go to other
world conglomerates in order to bring balance in our international relations in
a way helping protect our revolution in the next phase.
We
must continue strictly in the face of terrorism and resolving armed sit-ins in Rabea
and Nahda, because the delay in facing these terrorist outposts' results shall
have much larger losses than the rapid resolving in the framework of the law.
We agree with the forces demanding dissolving Muslim Brotherhood as an legitimate
group, and the need to confront terrorism, religious extremism and obscurantist
thought and policies of discrimination against women and Copts comprehensively from
the security, political, cultural and media aspects and within each of the state
institutions, so as to ensure success in building a modern democratic civil
state and build a national democratic regime to achieve the goals and
aspirations of the Egyptian people.
The
decision to eradicate these terrorist outposts so-called "sit-ins" requires
the people's surrounding the new power, which was assured clearly initially in
the twenty-sixth of July. Yet, this will not be final and conclusive unless
this authority shows decisiveness and clarity in the implementation of law on
the ground, significant assertiveness in maintaining security and regularity of
services, and alleviating the suffering of the toilers of the Egyptian people
in the form of concrete fair action directly: such as sanctioning the law of minimum
and maximum wage, and the maximum not to exceed 15 times the minimum, strict
control on prices, exempting small and medium farmers of their accumulated debts,
reinstating temporary employment, restoration and operation of companies owned
by the public sector, with judicial verdicts issued for their return .. etc. of
the possible actions to ensure that the vast majority of the Egyptian people feel
that the revolution they have made was for their favor so they give it back
more support.
We
emphasize the necessity to rewrite the Constitution completely without grafting,
revision or amendment. Foremost among this comes the tasks of the transitional
phase. The Brotherhood-Salafi Constitution of 2012 is distorted, sectarian and
against personal and public freedoms, freedom of thought and expression, the
rights of women and children and the rights of workers, peasants and laborers. In
the new constitution must Article II of the 1971 Constitution must return. It
stipulates that the principles of Islamic Sharia are the main source of
legislation without any increase or addition. Also must be stipulated the need
not to form parties on a religious basis, and the cancellation of all existing
parties not meeting these conditions as well as emphasizing separation of
religion from politics. It also has to be in a clear and explicit text to keep
the public and cooperative ownership being protected by the necessary
constitutional stipulations. The people's right to choose the path of their economic
and social development must be respected and no stipulation to the perpetuation
of the capitalist system or any other system in the Constitution. We see the
need for stipulating effective means of popular control over the institutions
of the executive authority and activating the role of popular participation,
ensuring that the laws do not transgress over constitutional rights and
freedoms. Finally, the economic and social rights of the citizens must be
emphasized clearly and be binding to the State and in particular the right to
health, education, employment, housing and protection of the rights of workers
and peasants, as producers of wealth and goods throughout the country.
3.
Uniting the efforts of the forces of the left
All
of these challenges, actions and events required for the next stage, especially
the transition period necessitate effective presence and unified efforts of the
Egyptian leftist forces in the face of fascist right-wing forces, as well as in
the face of capitalist rightists in general. The parties and forces of the left
will have no ability to influence and affect without unity and cohesion. We emphasize
the need to accelerate the pace of unity and the forma a unified leadership of
the socialist parties as the first necessary and urgent step required in the
current circumstances. Any delay in the formation of this leadership will have
serious consequences not only for the future of leftist forces, but also on the
future of the Egyptian revolution.
Long
live the Great Egyptian People's Revolution
Long
Live both Revolutions: January 25 and June 30!
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