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Friends We meet today to show our total support for the brave people of Egypt. Events are moving at an incredible speed. That is because we are witnessing a revolution in action and thanks to the new technology it is being streamed live on the Internet. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians - young and old – have come out on the streets against a brutal dictator. They have braved tear gas, bullets and the armed thugs. Thousand have been injured. Hundreds have been killed, yet they keep fighting on. Why? We have been told that they are asking for bread, for jobs, for an end to poverty – true. But they have also been fighting for dignity and for their honour and for an end to the shame that has been visited on a proud people. Egypt has a great and proud history. When I was a boy in Ireland, I thrilled to read of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal. I and many like me were inspired by the heroic resistance of the people of Egypt in 1956 to the armies of France, England and Israel. Egypt represented the hopes for a better world. Egypt then was a light unto the nations. But that light faded into the darkness and the corruption of the Mubarak dictatorship. Instead of representing the cause of Freedom, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak turned Egypt into the friend of tyranny. They did that by betraying the people of Palestine and becoming the ally of Israel and the US. When the Zionists slaughtered the Palestinians in Gaza, the Egyptian Army closed off the southern border and turned Gaza into a prison. The shame that the Egyptian people felt was terrible to behold. I want also now to talk of the corruption of the Mubarak regime. Millions of Egyptian suffer from terrible poverty. 77 million of the 80 million Egyptians live on less than $ 1 a day. Unemployment is around 30 % . 7 % of children cannot afford to go to school. There are 100 thousand homeless kids. When Gamal Abdel Nasser died in 1970 he had less than 4000 Egyptian pounds in the bank. Today Mubarak is worth A$40 billion. All that will now change. Egypt is being reborn. For the last two nights the heroic youth have fought with their bare hands to hold onto Tahrir Square. Tonight after prayers, the people will once again flock to the square. And the battle song of freedom will be heard in every corner of Egypt, in every Arab nation and in every corner of the world. Of course the regime has not stopped slandering the revolution. At first they tried to make us afraid of the revolution saying the Muslim Brotherhood will take over Egypt. I reject that fear. I fear no one because they are a Muslim and I salute the brave men and women of the Brotherhood who have come to the aid of the revolution and their nation. Tonight the Brotherhood will be fighting along side Christians and secularists. I salute that unity. Now the regime is trying to say that the revolution is the work of Israeli and American spies and agents. Let us be clear here there are Israeli agents at work in Egypt and I will name them. The number one agent of Israel is Hosni Mubarak. The other agents are the Vice President Umar Suleiman, the Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, the Defence Minister, Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, and the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Sami Einan. All these men work for Israel and the United States. For years Mubarak & his cronies have tortured and murdered anyone who opposed them. The Americans responded by giving them $1.5 billion dollars in bribes. I will not call it aid. The Egyptian people did not get the money. Mubarak and his cronies did. When Barack Obama went to Egypt, he was asked if he thought Mubarak was “authoritarian”. He said “no”. Just a week ago the idiot Vice President, Joe Biden said that Mubarak was not a dictator. Obama said Mubarak was a good friend and he valued his wise counsel. Wikileaks have made it clear that every American President for the past 30 years knew about the murders and the torture and they did not care. They did not care because Mubarak was a loyal servant of the American Empire. Last nite the dog Mubarak said that he would like to go but if he left there would be no Stability. I want to talk about that word. The former Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair, has told us that Mubarak brings stability. Benyamin Netanyahu also tells us that Mubarak has brought stability. What is this stability that Mubarak has brought? For the people of Egypt it is the stability of poverty and corruption and hunger. Mubarak has also brought the stability of the torture chamber and the graveyard. The people of Egypt do not want Mubarak’s stability. They want their freedom. Tonight they will continue their fight to liberate Cairo. They will win and tomorrow they will begin the fight to liberate Jerusalem. And when Jerusalem is free, Freedom will be brought to every Arab nation. And then we will all join together to bring freedom to the entire world. Long Live the Egyptian revolution. Long Live the Egyptian people. Thank you ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
