Analysis
The People of Egypt Rising
“The people of Egypt has spoken: “Enough of more than 30 years of oppression, Out with Mubarak and his group!” rang out for last eight days..
The progressive Filipino American community and their allies militantly supports and are one with the rising and militant people of
Egypt for standing up and striving to overthrow the US-supported Mubarak
regime which has long oppressed and exploited them for more than 30
years.
They massed in support at the Egyptian Los Angeles consulate and at the Wilshire federal building to dramatize their solidarity for the rising brave people of Egypt. More and more people in America are growing frustrated with the Obama-Clinton play of words. All semantics and lip service, no action taken.
The Egyptian people in their millions have acted to
repudiate the regime for its oppressiveness, its servility to US
imperialism and its conformity to the US-dictated “neoliberal” economic
policy which has brought about the high rate of unemployment, decline of
the economy and breakdown of social services.
Egyptian People vs US and Mubarak
Millions
of Egyptians poured out into the streets braving police and secret
intelligence open terror. And they were successful in their redress of
grievances. The brave inheritors of the nationalist Nasser have proven
to the world that ordinary Egyptians can stand up against a tyrant.
The Egyptian and the whole Arab world can still remember when Egypt
stood tall and claimed its leading role against the imperial powers in
the Suez canal crisis of 1956. They remembered how the imperialists
conspire with Israel to wrest Jerusalem and parts of Egypt in the 1967
war.
They stood with Nasser through victory and defeat and with his
successors in the hope that they will continue his fighting
anti-imperialist tradition. Sadat for a time looked like "little Nasser' especially during the Yum Kippur War of 1973.
But
Mubarak and his boss the United States are calling for
“orderly transition” like the way they maneuvered “ people’s power” in
the Philippines, Thailand and elsewhere.Like Marcos of the Philippines, Mubarak is clinging on to his last straws and is proposing to step down by September.
The United States
is playing its card even to have Egypt ruled with Mubarak puppets.There
are indications that behind the scenes the US and the generals are
trying to engineer a new arrangement.
US Supports Mubarak and his retinue
The Egyptian people are aware that the Egyptian state for too long since 1977 has
been dependent on a wide range of economic, financial and political
relations with the US and other imperialist countries. The US alone
has poured more than USD 50 billion into Egypt in order to coopt its
rulers and use them as tools of US hegemonism,
Sadat is his desperation turned to diplomacy to get concessions from Israel like the return of the Gaza Strip after their failed offensive in 1973. His assassination turned Mubarak as the next leader for the next 30 years.
The
Egyptian military under Mubarak became dependent on a huge amount of US military
assistance amounting to more than USD 1.38 billion, which is next in
size only to that given to Israel. The US also gives economic assistance
amounting to more than USD 800 million.
The US is agenda is clear. They are
highly interested in the restabilization of the situation in Egypt in
order to forestall the rise of anti-imperialist forces and thus maintain
a balance of forces in favor of the US-Zionist combine in the
region.But the people of the near east is rising up.The trend in the
Arab world is revolution!
Advance towards People’s Democracy
The American people are happy at the fact that the
revolutionary forces have the chance to expand and consolidate their
strength. The Egyptian people are asserting their sovereign power.
They are opening the way to further advances and further possibilities
in the struggle for national liberation, democracy, development and
social justice.
It has been a lesson in history repeatedly
demonstrated that particular despotic regimes can be overthrown, such
as those of Duvalier, Marcos, Somoza, Pinochet, Mobutu and Suharto. But
the US will do it utmost to put up a subsequent false facade of
democracy. It can only be fleeting like in Haiti, the Philippines and
elsewhere for as long as the US and the local exploiting classes can
rule through a bureaucratic and military machinery beholden to them.
The Filipino-American community will support the brave people of Egypt on whatever course they may take.
If
they need to move forward on the path of national liberation and social
revolution and towards Arab solidarity against their enemies, we are
behind them.
OUT with Mubarak, Now!
Democracy and national salvation for Egypt and its people!
