In response to a call for a strike on April 6^th by the workers in the
Mahallah textile complex, the biggest factory in Egypt, the Mubarak regime
decided to occupy El-Mahalla complex with security forces, abduct strike
committee leaders Kamal El-Faioumy and Tarek Amin and arrest political
activists of every political tendency in Cairo and other cities.

Not able to suppress the protests, the Mubarak security forces used
rubber-bullets, tear-gas, and live ammunition against the Mahallah people
who decided to protest on the streets of the city and in different villages,
leaving at least two dead and hundreds injured and around 800 arrested. We
send our solidarity to the Egyptian workers and their supporters.

We call on the Egyptian dictatorship to release the 800 detained on 6^th
April including more than 150 political activists (socialists, liberals, and
Islamists), more than 600 protestors from Mahallah (mainly women and
children) and Mahallah strike Committee leaders.

Update 22 April – The Egyptian interior ministry has issued detention orders
against Textile Workers’ League activists and strike organisers Kamal
El-Faioumy, Tarek Amin and Karim El-Beheiry, and five other residents of
Mahalla al-Kubra despite a judge ordering that they should be set free. We
call for the immediate release of these and all the other detainees.

Jeremy Corbyn MP; George Galloway MP; Bob Crow, General Secretary RMT Union; Mark Serwotka, General Secretary PCS Union; Lindsey German, Stop the War
Coalition; John Rees, Cairo Conference; Clare Solomon, President, SOAS
Student Union; Francisco Louçã, Member of Parliament, Portugal; China
Miéville writer, Britain; Susan George, France; Mike Davis writer and
academic, USA; Prof. Esther Leslie, Britain; Michael Löwy, sociologist,
France; Prof. Moshe Machover, Britain; Prof. Jacques Bidet, France; Prof.
Claudio Katz, Argentina; Prof. Jonathan Nitzan, Canada; Prof. Craig
Brandist, Britain; Prof. Colin Sparks, Britain; Prof. Alex Callinicos,
Britain; Jim Wolfreys, President, King’s College London UCU; Michael
Lavalette, Preston City Council, Preston Respect; Linda Smith, Chair,
Respect; Hanif Abdulmuhit, Respect councillor, Newham; Sarah Creagh, Chair,
Bristol Respect; Geoff Brown, Secretary, Manchester TUC; And many others

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Send protests to: Minister of the Interior General Habib El Adly, El Sheikh
Rihan St.Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, Phone no. 00202 – 27957500, Fax
00202 -2 5792031, E-mail Moi1 idsc.gov.eg with copies to the Egyptian
Embassy in London, 26 South Street,London W1K 1DW

Email: etembuk hotmail.com

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