Archive for May 22nd, 2012
Egypt: sometimes with the Islamists, never with the state
Posted by John, May 22nd, 2012 - under Egypt, Islamists, Islamophobia, Muslim Brotherhood, SCAF, Salafis.
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What do you do as a revolutionary socialist in the midst of this ongoing struggle in Egypt? One should not stop exposing the hypocrisy and the counterrevolutionary politics of the MB leadership. But we should not give up trying to attract the youth and those in the MB who are sincerely pro-revolution to the revolutionary camp and even winning them to socialist politics, something that I’m also increasingly witnessing.
The polarisation within the Islamist movement will only increase with every betrayal and compromise the Islamist leadership brokers with SCAF, with every confrontation with the state, with the growth of a revolutionary left that could provide an alternative for the disillusioned youth, and more importantly with the escalation of the strike wave.
But in all cases, we must be vigilant enough to remain organisationally independent, move under our own banners, with our own literature, and never compromise.
We should be sometimes with the Islamists, never with the state.