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Egypte : multiplication des grèves ouvrières dans la foulée des manifestations contre Moubarak. La classe ouvrière donne un tour nouveau à la lutte. La première grève de six mille travailleurs du canal de Suez a notamment commencé... et tous les secteurs sont concernés : Textile, Tourisme, Employés, Ouvriers agricoles, Aéroport du Caire, Télécommunications, journalistes, etc... Le prolétariat est en marche. Nul ne peut dire jusqu’où il va aller.... WORKING CLASS IS SHAKING THE EGYPT AND ... THE WORLD...

9 February 2011, 22:43, by michael

Strikes have erupted across Egypt as thousands of state workers and others demand better pay, benefits and working conditions.

They began as many companies reopened for the first time since night curfews were imposed almost two weeks ago.

Among those walking off the job today are railway and bus workers, state electricity staff and service technicians at the Suez Canal, workers who make textiles, steel and beverages and those in at least one hospital.

In one of the flashpoints, some 8,000 protesters, mainly farmers, set barricades of flaming palm trees in a southern province. They blocked the main highway and railway to Cairo to complain of bread shortages. They then drove off the governor by pelting his van with stones.

The growing labor unrest is adding a new dimension to the pressures for President Hosni Mubarak to step down, as protesters have been demanding for the past 16 days.

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