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Title: Egyptian anarchists speak
Author: Comrades from Cairo
Date: October 30, 2012
Language: en
Topics: Egypt, anti-capitalism
Source: Retrieved on 6th March 2021 from https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/egyptian-anarchists-speak/

Comrades from Cairo

Egyptian anarchists speak

Dear friends,

The next period will again see a familiar foe that many of you have and

continue to fight. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as

the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have long been assisting in the

looting of the Egyptian economy and the displacement of the Egyptian

people. Our goal is to resist these institutions and their depredations.

Because we know that this struggle is universal, send this letter to all

those working in solidarity against the bankers and their friends. After

the revolution, these organizations targeted Egypt,hoping to consolidate

and extend their control. Citing “economic instability”, they want to

impose their programme in Egypt – an affordable solution that will

increase, once again, the gap between rich and poor and will endanger

the livelihood of millions of people. What we call “instability” is

nothing other than the revolt of the base that opposes the status quo of

political and economic hegemony of the Egyptian state. The new

leadership of Egypt maintains a neoliberal logic of governance. The

Muslim Brotherhood, the generals, bureaucrats and bankers have the same

intentions in mind: continuing exploitation, theft and commercialization

of natural and human resources of the country. While some of the key

leaders of the Brotherhood already promoted neoliberal policies years

ago, shortly after taking power, the organization has now officially

changed its religious positions against the IMF loan, citing economic

“necessity”. In practice, this means priority requirements of banks and

financial institutions and not on policies that enhance social justice

for the Egyptians. Moreover, while the IMF states that the loan has

conditions, a “package of economic reforms” carried out by the lackeys

of the Egyptian economic system must be approved by the Fund prior to

the loan disbursed. Indeed, without conditions … IMF may be the most

obvious creditor with expansionist tendencies, but it is not only the

creation and maintenance of unequal economic, cultural and territorial

relationship, based on domination and subordination.

Just as dangerous are institutions such as the European Bank for

Reconstruction and Development Bank and European Investment aiming to

commercialize, privatize and plunder everything from transport and

electricity to the Nile. Many of these banks have supported for years

our dictators, applauding their efforts to subjugate us, the earth and

our water, to private capital. Egypt is no exception. The revolution in

South Africa against apartheid was considered a threat to economic

stability – the new leadership that emerged boasted revolutionary

credentials that enabled the implementation of the neoliberal project,

which exceeded the colonialists predecessors.

Following his election victory, with promises of progressive programs,

Lula, President of Brazil, presented growing neoliberal policies

“rinsed” with charity projects for an increasingly impoverished

underclass. The same happened in India when economic policies, to help

the country decided to enter global markets, led thousands of farmers

into debt and losing their livelihoods, with increasing stratification

between rich and poor. And the examples continue. Across the world,

these International Financial Institutions and the governments that

support them, exploit the uncertainty of the “post-revolutionary” era by

imposing austerity measures and tightening their grip on the those that

rise up against these control systems.

Egypt is no exception. Their solution is our problem, “economic

stability” is misery and exploitation for us . If we are all together we

can strengthen our position towards them. We recognize the origin of

this fight against international financial institutions and the IMF: A

worldwide network of inspired people and activists, of which we are

part. Today, we in Egypt are under attack and imminent threat, and we

have decided to fight. For those who have similarly become the target of

the IMF and the International Financial Institutions and fight against

these predators, let’s find ways to combine and unite our forces against

them loans at local and global levels.

No boss, no creditors!

Sincerely, The Comrades from Cairo