Egypt faces third revolution unless workers’ demands are met, warns union

“I’m warning the government. They have to comply with the workers’ demands,” said Malek Bayoumi, president of Efitu, which was founded in opposition to a decades-old state monopoly on union activity. “It’s not planned yet, but they have to look after the workers, otherwise finally there will be a third revolution – in the factories, in the government, everywhere.”

Activists opposed to the authoritarianism of both the Brotherhood and the army are beginning to re-emerge, as Monday’s formation of a new revolutionary group indicated. Some of the most prominent names from the 2011 uprising – including Ahdaf Soueif, Ahmed Maher, and Alaa Abdel Fatah – congregated to introduce the movement, the Road of the Revolutionary Front.

Patrick Kingsley in Egypt faces third revolution unless workers’ demands are met, warns union (Guardian)