Friday 29th July 2011 demonstrated the possibility of a serious regression in the progress of the Egyptian revolution. On that day two bourgeois counter-revolutionary groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, took to the streets in an effort to show their force. This was followed by an attack on people who had been staging a sit-in in Altahrir Square for the past three weeks by the oppressive forces of the Military Council on 1 August 2011. The bourgeois counter-revolutionary groups praised the military’s actions as they too wished to see an end to the sit-in, which has been going on since 8th July. They too wished to clear the Square of people demanding freedom and democracy.

This is the beginning of a new stage. It means that the revolutionary forces face a new challenge. It is a dress rehearsal for wider political action by far right bourgeois currents, with the implicit support of the Military Council, in their aim to end the revolution.

 In Egypt today we have two distinct camps. The camp of the workers, youth, unemployed people, squatters, the residents of unplanned shanty towns, all people seeking freedom and equality along the key forces of the revolution. This camp knows that the revolution has not yet achieved its goals despite the ongoing struggle and all the sacrifices that have been made so far. This is the camp of the revolution.

The second camp was satisfied when Mubarak stepped down. This camp is made up of the counter-revolutionary forces of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis and the Military Council.

 The first camp seeks to continue and deepen the revolution in order to achieve its goals of secular freedom, equality and prosperity. The second camp seeks to end the revolution and restore the situation prior to Mubarak’s fall. It simply wants to remove his party and a handful of his politicians, put some figures from his regime on trial, compensate the families of people killed by the military and not much more.
Last Friday was a day of blatant opposition to the revolution supposedly in the name of revolution. It was the day when reactionary forces stood in opposition to the aspirations and goals of the workers, the youth, freedom loving people and everyone who is fed up with the miserable situation in Egypt. The complicity of the Military Council with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis and their mutual deals demonstrates that they have a common goal: to stabilize the situation in their favour, to drive the masses back to their homes and to continuing poverty, hunger and lack of freedom.

The counter-revolutionary forces are not only local. Other regional and international capitalist forces are chasing this same goal. Dictatorial regimes in the region (in particular the Gulf States) are trying to prop up the capitalist regime in Egypt. The capitalists and governments of the Gulf States turned on the petro-dollar taps to compensate for the migration of Western capital out of Egypt. The capitalists of Egypt and the Gulf States and their political representatives stood shoulder-to-shoulder to try to stop the wheel of revolution in Egypt.

The immediate aim of the counter-revolution and its right wing bourgeois forces is to keep the wheel of production turning in a large capitalist country and maintain the super profits extracted from cheap and silent labour. It is to curb the revolution and frustrate its main demands, which are for wage increases, free trade unions and political and civil rights.
The aim of the reactionary forces is to alleviate the economic and social crisis of their system by imposing the burden on workers and the impoverished, hungry and unemployed masses. Their aim is to kick start another cycle of capital accumulation. This requires a sharp reduction in the living standards of workers and deprived people and the further impoverishment of the vast majority.

The main issue for any revolution is the ruling authority in the country. Mubarak was ousted; however, the power is not in the hands of the workers and the revolutionary masses. The counter-revolutionary forces seek to maintain their grip on the power through the slogan “elections first”. In the context of the current situation, this slogan is against the revolution. The goal from the elections is to give legitimacy to their constitution and the process of putting down the revolution in a legal and “democratic” way. The road map drawn by the Military Council, which constitutes elections, parliament and then constitution, must be rejected by the working class, the revolutionary youth and all other forces of revolution. This is their road map to end the revolution rather than meeting the demands and goals for which millions have struggled.

The two fronts and fields of the class struggle in the current situation in Egypt are: First the living standard of the vast majority of the masses, the wide range of economic demands including ending the poverty, high prices, unemployment, homelessness and so on. Second is the political freedoms and the right to organization, strike, holding gathering, demonstrations and the power of the masses, the identity of the state as a secular and non-nationalist state, the state which represent all residents of Egypt, the state which regard the international human identity of the Egyptian citizens one of its pillars. Religious and nationalist identity must be rejected altogether by the supporters of the revolution. Deepening the revolution and advancing it on these two main struggle fronts is our immediate and decisive response to the path of burying the revolution advanced by the representatives and servants of the capital including the Military Council, Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis and their regional and international allies.

The working class, the deprived, freedom seeking people and revolutionary youth in Egypt should accomplish their revolution and achieve its real goals. Moreover, the working class should uninterruptedly push this revolution toward the socialist revolution and not to stop until all its goals are realized. It should be clear that not only achieving the socialist revolution but the success of the current revolution depends entirely on the working class coming to the fore front as an independent force and having its own communist party.

The first requirements for the victory of the revolution in Egypt is the presence of a Worker-communist party that raises the political class banner of the working class and acts as a guide and organizer in every stage of the struggle for the political power which is the main issue for any revolution. The worker program cannot be achieved without the workers and the revolutionary masses seizing political power. This cannot be achieved without the total overthrow of the bourgeoisie power.

Workers and freedom loving people of the world!

The revolution, the workers and revolutionary masses in Egypt must be supported to defeat the counter-revolutionary forces and to maintain and deepen the demands of this revolution toward the final victory and realizing freedom, equality and prosperity. Defending the workers in Egypt and their struggle, demands and labour and partisan organization, standing up to the attacks of the counter-revolutionary forces, seeking international support to the revolution, drawing the international public attention and support and exerting various forms of pressure on the ruling authority in Egypt are immediate and urgent internationalist tasks of the working class and all fighters for a better world suitable for the human beings of the 21st century everywhere.

We in the Worker-communist Parties of Iraq, Kurdistan and Iran- Hekmatist regard ourselves part of the struggle of the workers and freedom loving people of Egypt. Their victory is our victory and the failure of their struggle is a failure of our struggle. The Worker-communist party of Iraq, Kurdistan and Iran- Hekmatist will not serve any effort to make the revolution in Egypt succeed and achieve its goals in freedom and equality.

Defeat to the counter-revolutionary forces!

Long lives the struggle of the revolutionary masses in Egypt!

Long live socialism!

Worker-communist Party of Iraq

Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan

Worker-communist Party of Iran-Hekmatist

Early August 2011.