The forces unleashed in Egypt can’t be turned back | Seumas Milne
The upheaval spreading across the Arab world is at heart a movement for self-determination. The west resists it at its peril The fate of the Egyptian uprising is in the balance. There is a revolutionary situation in Egypt , but there has not yet been a revolution. In the wake of Hosni Mubarak’s pledge not to stand again for the presidency next September , gangs of government loyalists were today let loose on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria . First, the army spokesman called for the protesters to stand down now “your message has arrived”. Truckloads of thugs, armed with iron bars and machetes, many clearly members of the
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The forces unleashed in Egypt can’t be turned back | Seumas Milne
The upheaval spreading across the Arab world is at heart a movement for self-determination. The west resists it at its peril The fate of the Egyptian uprising is in the balance. There is a revolutionary situation in Egypt , but there has not yet been a revolution. In the wake of Hosni Mubarak’s pledge not to stand again for the presidency next September , gangs of government loyalists were today let loose on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria . First, the army spokesman called for the protesters to stand down now “your message has arrived”. Truckloads of thugs, armed with iron bars and machetes, many clearly members of the
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