Election and military rule

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2 sit-ins Tahrir and the cabinet, voices calling for boycotting the elections, other voices calling for going for elections, martyrs every day, this is the situation now.

If we compared the voices conflicting about boycotting elections, we will find that all the political forces except the revolutionary socialists are calling for elections and completion of the sit-ins in order to bring the legitimacy of the SCAF down.

But the questions are : 
" will the parliament after these elections meet the demands of the revolution ? "
Answer : NO.
" Is it worth the effort ? "
Answer : NO.

People all around Egypt will go for elections despite what happened this week because most of the SCAF antagonists see that elections will meet people's demand which is "Down with the SCAF" by bringing a civilian government to achieve the rest of the revolutionary demands.
All the forces calling for going for elections and not to boycott  are very aware of the over constitutional articles "El-selmy Document" SCAF will use to control writing the Constitution and to be the ruler from behind the scenes, and this is the perfect hypocrisy, and they know that the elections won't be able to restore the rights.

All the Bourgeois forces are ready for elections whether the Islamist forces "Ikhwan - Salaf" or the secular forces, and these forces will not be able to reflect the demands of the streets, and obviously they are the voices who are calling for elections.


The problem here that the boycotting doesn't give us a clear alternative for the elections, and till now we have no Revolutionary party can lead this huge campaign.


The only solution i can see now is we have to go for it -elections- despite i prefer boycotting but if we did boycott we will be alone far away from the people in the streets who we have to stick to, and we have to rethink and make the most of the elections by surveillance and making sure that no fraud will happen.

Let's continue our revolution.

Video: the killing of Ahmed al Sayed Sorour this morning بالفيديو : استشهاد احمد السيد سرور | ١١.١١.٢٦| شارع مجلس الشعب

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Video by Mosireen

During Cabinet sit-in : Protesters from tahrir square decided to move a part from the main tahrir sit-in to the cabinet in order to prevent El-Ganzoury from entering the building and as mean of showing SCAF their rejection of announcing him as the new PM.

According to MOI official statement : Early in the morning 2 CSF trucks tried to enter the street where protesters have their sit-in in order to reach the MOI when protesters started throwing rocks and molotov cocktail on the trucks which cased PANIC as usual to one of trucks drivers and made him ran over the protester Ahmed El-Sayed Soror. and his death confirmed -may his soul RIP-

Many protesters who where there said that the officers refused to change their direction and take another street despite they were aware of the occupy cabinet sit-in, friends confirmed that they were on purpose and were intending to attack the sit-in.

Not confirmed till now that their is an officer who shot live ammunition.

sit-in continues.

Glory to the Martyrs.

New Video : Chants against #SCAF and Muslim Brotherhood - #Tahrir

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A group of protesters in tahrir square 24th of Nov. were chanting against Supreme Council of Armed Forces and their political supporters "Muslim Brotherhood - Ikhwan"
Why against Ikhwan ?
because the Ikhwan is the largest and the most organized political party after the revolution who supposed to stand with completion of revolution as they were one of the most oppressed people under Mubarak regime but they didn't and choose the easier way and became one hand with the scaf trying to attribute the revolution to their names ! and reproducing the old regime.
it was remarkable that tahrir square was Very strong without them and protesters still joining and adding power to the revolution.
chants :
1.Down with the scaf.
2.This is a youth revolution not Ikhwan's revolution.
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Muslim brotherhood situation is very questionable these days and their leaders are facing charges of giving up the peaceful protesters while they were under attack by the CSF for 5 continuous days.
Next days we will see how Ikhwan left their people for the sake of elections !

uploaded by me.

#photography from Tahrir square

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Tahrir square 23th Nov., a set on Flickr.

Same mistakes again ?

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Since SCAF became the official ruler of Egypt after Mubarak stepped down last February they used to use distraction and conspiracy methods with us when something important comes to the surface.

It happened many times and the biggest was the conversion of 8th of July protest demand from the constitution first to actually nothing !

The SCAF and the Islamic movements did conspire against the most important and necessary demand of the revolution "The Constitution 1st." because the they felt it's riskiness on them as it would threw them out of the power and for the Islamists it would make them loose their backbone on the political arena ! >>> HOW ?

The scheme began with the "Ballon Theater" clashes - Riot forces violently beat the families of the martyrs which transferred the clashes to Tahrir square where the Rebels dealt with the Riot forces and forced them to leave the square -, Pro-SCAF, Pro-Iknwan Media in order to make some sort of distraction from the real purpose behind the 8 July Protest ! and they succeeded in their purpose furthermore they transferred our sight to the bullshit called Over-Constitutional articles which mean nothing , Don't let us forget the role of the Chef of the State Council who used the media to convince the people with the kindness of the SCAF ! 

Simply this how the Conspirator did succeeded in changing the purpose of the protest to "Revenge to the martyrs" which ended with the Comic show Called "The trial of the century" - Mubarak's trial.

A general fear i feel while talking with participant in Tahrir sit-in now which is the conversion of the main goal of the sit-in to any other undesirable direction just like what happened in 8th of July sit-in, i guarantee it will be the perfect nightmare for many of us it that happened.
This sit-in is a dejaveu of many sit-ins and that's what i am afraid of, sometimes it reminds me of the first 18 days ! and this was great for sure, but sometimes i smell the 8th of July and that was nasty by all means.

Army officers again ?
I think we all remember the 8 April officers, away from their intentions whatever it was good or bad but we all agree that the timming of the army interference wasn't that accurate because the revolutionary phase wasn't ready yet.
In the perfect Utopia revolution the social movement in the society should reach a certain revolutionary phase before the army do to avoid military overthrew because the army has the well organized forces which can use the struggle of the nation for the own good of some army officers.
the equilibrium between the revolution inside the army and the revolution in the streets should be watched accurately and a certain coordination should be between them to reach to the real goals behind the people's revolution.
Simply ! if we tried to apply these little principles to our revolution and the political arena now we will find that we are far away from that perfect match in mentality at least, at this particular stage of our great revolution we have to motivate the people more and more against the SCAF and have to avoid relying on any individual revolutionary action inside the army, i believe we don't need them now ! , we cannot reproduce the same version of 8 April officers.

But shit happens, and here's another individual revolutionary action inside the army and the only loser here is the revolutionary officer -just in case of being true revolutionary- and please think with me ! what if they worked underground for now and wait for the right moment, in this case we all win ! at least they will be grater in number !

This is officer doctor Amr Ahmed Mahmoud ..  and he just disappeared after this speech, most probably kidnapped and there is a campaign now for his release. is this a distraction ?

I am not calling for giving up these heroes ! but it's not the right time i think, but we have to show our solidarity with them for sure.

There's a principle saying "During a revolution don't expect anything from an army which is not a revolutionary army" and this is damn true at least here in Egypt as we have no true revolution inside the army and still the capitalist mentality ruling the army.

Going back to distraction ! i hope we really focus on the revolution on the ground.

Just saying ..

Thinking about situation of #Tahrir - Just saying !

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Without Parties, without Ikhwan the revolution will make it in the square ولا احزاب ولا اخوان الثورة هتنجح في الميدان

From day one since the whole thing started there are some observations I couldn't let it go !
Sometimes I feel like we all dragged to this or the stage before it but things became out of control from the SCAF's side!

Do you remember sunday the 20th of November ? When the Army forces broke into tahrir square ? They took over the square easily ! It was a piece of cake for them but why they left it after less than 15 minutes !

Mansour El-Esawy Minister of MOI before his official resignation said that he's not in chief anymore 2 days before the resignation and an Army officer is running the whole operation and it was obvious to many of us through their determination not to draw backwards, that means that the forces on the ground were Army but dressed like police!

The situation and decision of the Muslim Brotherhood about these clashes is Very questionable ! ,No One really knows what is the thing being processed behind the closed doors !,
All of us know that Muslim Brotherhood is dying for the elections because this time is their golden chance and will never come again.

Today the 25th of November 2011 :-

It's two days after clashes are over now but there are many developments on the scene now.
SCAF has officially announced Dr.Kamal El-Ganzory as the new prime minister despite the rejection of the revolutionary forces,
many of them refused El-Ganzory because he's a symbol of Mubarak's regime who literally sold the national sector and planted Gamal Mubarak in the Central bank of Egypt.

Others refused him because as any other revolution the revolution have to rule the country and to be the only voice who choose it's destiny, which won't happen under supervision of the SCAF, so people in tahrir square want to choose their destiny by their own hands, It's a revolution.
We want a government or a presidential council to speak with our tongue.
People don't see the SCAF as the Ruler anymore.

The square has agreed that Baradie would be the PM. and  4 VPMs: Abo El-Fotoh, El-Nagar, El-Baroody & Sabahy
Now this is a great win for me because for the first time since the first spark in 25jan Our revolution  had no leader, but now we have a leading council whatever their names or the entity of the council, the most important is it's formed from the square.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and SCAF's stupidity !

Regime still stupid :- they let some people protest in solidarity with them but they changed places, that's it.

People's demand is clear :- Down with the SCAF .

New Photos from Tahrir square

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Tahrir square , a set on Flickr.

#Photos of Tahrir clashes #20Nov

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Tahrir clashes #20Nov, a set on Flickr.

My Videos from #Tahrir square clashes since #19Nov , The second Egyptian uprising, فيديوهات من اشتباكات ميدان التحرير والانتفاضة المصرية التانية من يوم 19 نوفمبر

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photo - front line

street wars between protesters and Police forces 1st day in the second Egyptian uprising ,, tahrir square - cairo 19 Nov.

Clashes between protesters and Police forces from the Front lines - Mohamed Mahmoud st. - Tahrir Square, Cairo. 

chants behind the front lines at Mohamed Mahmoud st. against the Army and Police Forces during early morning clashes 22 Nov.