Tamarod and the call for June 30
Since nearly two years ago,
people went down to the streets with millions opposing the former toppled pres.
Mubarak, in a scene that shocked the whole society since this movement was
spontaneous, and anti-politics one. This enormous wave struck the aged, rotten
political elite, the people felt for once they have the power to achieve
something, rather than the reformist demands that kept repeating for ages by
the elite and liberals, even the islamists .
When the people broke the endless
circle of opposing the system from within the system, which was impossible to
fix it since the main pillar of it was the corruption -like all systems around
the world-, the corruption we are referring to is the only one the capitalists
create, the one is based on exploiting the masses, impoverishing population for
the sake of slaving them, controlling their life, those masses who went to
shout three words -no more- “bread, freedom, social justice”, that was not for
too long, till the SCAF show up with their “democratic” plan, which was aimed
to end-up the people’s uprising, which begin with sarcastic play to end with
another one, starting from the constitutional referendum, and end with Morsi
the so called “revolutionary president”.
And since the first moment of
SCAF ruling Egypt, they just work as hard as they can get, just for one aim,
the aim of concluding the most radical youth to their “democracy project”,
which is consist of sets of procedures that one must follow to demand the
change, a civilized one, a sets start with youth political parties and ends
with one on T.V screens, and so they did, but that comes with a price, to show
full loyalty for the current system, to oppose it as they show you, to act as
if you want to change it, but never, to doubt its existence.
But they were wrong, what was a
successful plan, ends up badly in the parliamentary elections, the system they
wanted to preserve and change it’s face, is no longer be trusted by the people,
the masses have learned the lesson, at least this time, they understand that no
one can be trusted except the streets, and their power, as organized, conscious
masses.
So, by the mid and end of 2011
they occupied what they left before again, workers rose up demanding what was
called by the state media “factional demands” in one of the biggest strike wave
to hit the nation since decades , military administration was unable to
liquidate this revolutionary spirit into a political action so that the system
ensures that it keeps its rules but in an acceptable way than in the past, and
the presidential elections came to witness less participation from the lower
classes and the people in General.
And after that the gap between
the "democratic process" and the masses of the people continue to expand.
And the political elites, political Islam and liberal elites stood there unable
to exchange the people demand to take down the regime which they wanted to take
down two years ago hope a new alternative, the blood of the masses continue to
bleed in the streets, to see after that the Constitution-making process which proves
that the so called -democratic process- is the first step on the road to
dictatorship.
In the political arena the political elites tried to
find solutions to control the masses, between political speeches in coalitions
and the money paid to finance youth campaigns which those old political elites huddled
behind who are fearful of that the public would be able to organize themselves
and find an alternative to get rid of those elites, who are part of the regime
to put down revolutionary movements to ensure system stability. to show up a
movement calling for so called –rebellion- under the name of " Tamarod " to bear in mind
the demands of political elites "reforms" blared out in the opposed
media as their demands restricted into "to take down the head of the system,
which is morsi" who is not in fact the cause of the problem, the cause of
the original problem is the old regime which the political elites are part of, it’s the system that
did not fall on 28 January, and that everyone is keen not to take it down
because of their own interests.
Tamarod campaign reflects the
demands of the conflicting political elites who are working so hard to convince
the public that they are working hard to
improve their economic and social Conditions, but if we looked at the
performance of these elites since the 28th of March two years ago, they called
upon to prevent the masses from coming down to streets and to stop protesting, after
the military administration came as the last card for the system to protect
itself, We will find that those elites
are the ones who called to go through the process of democracy hoping to get
gains, but they failed to do so, and thus they rise up now after the success
the Muslim Brotherhood in controlling the parts of the State and exclusion the
rest of the political forces which led to congestion and conflicting between
the liberal elites and the political Islam elites, and to restore the liberal
elites power again, they supported Tamarod campaign in view of the demands for
reform which are suitable for this parasitic class, they supported it by the
media and also by their headquarters until Tamarod turned into reformist
movement looking for roots within the society to liquefy the revolutionary
spirit of the masses for political gains by elites under a comic called
democracy.
The danger of Tamarod is that it
is trying hard to convince the public that the problem is really not in the
system that grow on exploitation but convince them that the problem is in the head
of the system which is incorrect, since the difference between the head of the
system before the revolution and after is
only nominal but the exploitative repressive policies remain the same and keep all the
social and economic conditions as well, Tamarod is merely a political comedy
will not vary from the other tries to politicize the revolution, the elites have no
objection to current or previous policy of the system, but the only objection
is that they want to become part of the system, want to become part of the
power, they look at the revolution as a political gain, they do not see it as a
popular movement that wants to destroy the current system so that the public could
build an alternative, for more equality , justice and more revolutionary.
And now, after June 30, now stand
on the result of this so called "revolution" that claimed that it’s a
complement of 25 of January uprising - which in fact was on 28 January, but the
revolution enemies refuse to admit it - we can stand on the results of 30 June
where we can see now fully military coup and most noteworthy that it was not
only a military coup but an attempt to produce a system that died in January 25.
And we are now witnessing the
return of the police state in the protection of the military coup, which opened
its arms to all members of society -not only as promoted against Islamists- and
seeing muzzle to the mouths of the
opponents of the current regime with the help of the army and the police
forces, and also arresting citizens who been accused of insulting
"Sisi", and the military junta permit the police to arrest citizens
wherever they may be, seizing their right to mobility to be able to perform
it’s excessive repressive authority, And that wasn’t enough to them, there were
also unarmed citizens being shot because of breaking the curfew to impose the
new law that the ones who break our laws will be a victim of violence and State
terrorism.
And even after sisi tried to
covering the coup by a liberal civil coverage whether by appointment of
President adley Mansour, a former President of the Constitutional Court, the
head of his Cabinet of Liberals Hazem El-Beblawi, which is in fact one of the
supporters of the inheritance and also Minister of transport who stained his
hands with the blood of Egyptians in particular railway disasters in 2001 and
Kamal aboueita -yellow union- who heads the Union of independent labor unions that
been established with the assistance of the State and its goal was to penetrate
the The labor movement and maintain it and Adel Labib , generals , the Minister of finance and
other businessmen who grow up in the years of mubarak , And now sisi is trying to appease foreign powers
that this coup is in their favor, and now sisi has lost the ability to hide the coup when he
came out to ask the people to complete the -revolution- of June 30 and to give him
a mandate to bloodshed and to use power against all and especially that he felt
at that moment that the capsizing has no popularity anymore so he wanted to create a case of Terrorism to
win people's support to State terrorism, and of course with the help of Tamarod
movement which called to support the
army and after what Tamarod did that it mobilized the -revolution- of the old regime,
now they are mobilizing for the military after its role in control and maintain
the people rage against the system to
limit it and to direct it only to the head of the system -morsi- not the whole
regime and to direct the people rage in favor of a particular stream and now
the results of the mass movement into the streets are gained by liberals and
the military.
And after the features of Liberal
Government have been formed, which returned to the same old way of thinking
before January 2011 and the back of security services to work after they stopped
-for a while- and return to nature relations with the businessmen of the old
regime who also worked on reconciliation with Morsi regime after vigorous
attempts succeeded and failed, but after the return of the old regime
completely with a new format and same persons, there is no need now for
reconciliation, they are the ones who
are in charge.
The muslim brotherhood’s way of
dealing with the people did not differ from
the predecessors Systems, and this is what we expected as long as the power is
a tool for the Suppression of the masses and not to preserve their rights,
where the basic guarantee for the arrival of the brothers to take the authority
is to continue to service the capitalists, and eliminate the revolution in many
ways oppressive authoritarianism that ranged from imprisonment of workers and
students to the collective abduction or killing under the protection of the
collective military and police, And this is what the brotherhood worked on during
a full year of their rule and earlier after the 28th of January, but the
conflict on power between elites that grown under Mubarak ruling, and
conservative Muslim elites, with taking in mind that their economic ideas –capitalism- is the common factor between
those elites, the brotherhood has been ousted from power. The road paved to
those Mubarak’s elites to take the power again. And don't forget the
brotherhood and their ascent to power was under the supervision of the military
Council that felt it’s necessary that the brotherhood take the power to be able
to control the crowds of people who occupied the streets and fields, and now
the old political elites are in a collaboration with strong liberal and
national elites to mobilize supporters of the bourgeois class and the middle
class now the presence of the brotherhood in the image is marginal, and so the
Muslim Brotherhood was their sacrifice in the midst of a power conflict in that
ridiculous game called Revolution of June 30.
But we see it as it is now clear
that the regime wants to keep the Islamists in its opponents, to dissolve the
lines between the claimers of social and economic rights and the ones who just
want a chair inside the system, and becoming the opposition within the
framework of the State and the existing system. And now after a wave of
counter-revolution that managed to return to power, we must note that the
Muslim Brotherhood also did not give the people any of the their demands not
the social, the economic and political demands, like the deposed regime of
Mubarak, and proved that the army is a key element in the equation of Egyptian
politics that in it move all parties that ensure all time not the demands of
the society rather than to achieve economic stability, especially that the army
owns more than 30 percent of the Egyptian economy and without stability it’s
not possible for the Businessmen with
military ranks to gain their huge profits in peace, and proved that the army
always intervenes when they feel danger to the stability of the State which is
linked directly to the political and economic gains that allow it to control
the State under the authority of any faction, because that faction will ascend
to power only with the supervision of the military.
The revolution
will not become in one day a movement for politicians from various parties to
ensure for themselves a part of authority or power, that the revolution is
ongoing mobility will not extinguish until the demands of the masses achieved,
the revolution is the enemy of every politician, and is the enemy of every military,
every businessman, every cleric, the revolution is not and will not be controlled
by anyone, so tamarod like any other various campaigns that used to liquefy the
revolutionary spirit, will become at the end a ridicules joke for the masses
who are calling for taking down the regime, , yes the Muslim Brotherhood are
enemies of revolution but the enemies of the revolution also are those who trying
hard to extinguish and put limits to it, the revolution is the enemy of every
system, the revolution is the enemy of every politician, an enemy of every
authority, even if the bourgeois succeeded to take down the Muslim Brotherhood and
to come up with a new President. The revolution will stand against him; the revolution is against the regime
and not against individuals or persons.
