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workers.org August 14, 201

STOP THE MASSACRE IN EGYPT!Workers World condemns the latest

massacre o Muslim Brotherhood sup-porters demonstrating in Cairo. It was

ordered by the U.S.-trained Egyptian gen-

erals who had earlier carried out the mili-

tary coup that ousted elected President

Mohamed Morsi.

Tis bloody slaughter, along with the

appointment o 17 Army and two police

generals as governors o the 27 Egyptian

governorates, plus the coup regimes decla-

ration o a one-month state o emergency,

should wipe out any remaining doubts

about the ousting o Morsi. It was an out-right military coup. His democratic right to

govern based on an election has ar more

legitimacy than any generals diktat.

Te generals action was directed not

only against the government, which

had lost some popular support, but also

against the Egyptian workers and arm-

ers. It is aimed at restoring the dictatorial

regime overthrown in 2011. Te last state

o emergency lasted three decades. Dur-

ing that entire time the Egyptian armyand state, under dictator Hosni Mubarak,

served as a bastion o U.S. imperialist

domination o the region.

Tere is already evidence that some o

those individuals and organizations who

had argued that the military was acting on

behal o the mass dissatisaction with the

Morsi government are now revising their

opinion.

In its early history the Egyptian Army

was seen as a patriotic, nationalist orce

deending Egyptian interests. However,as WW analyst Joyce Chediac said in a

recent talk published in Workers World,

For the past our decades the ocer

corps has been armed and trained by the

Pentagon at a cost o $1.3 billion a year.

Te interest o the ocers is diametrically

opposed to the interests o the rank-and-

fle soldiers and the people as a whole.

As evidence o the close U.S. ties with

the generals, Washingtons criticism o the

massacre and the state o emergency has

been minimal. Tis is so even though its

diplomats had been publicly attempting

and ailing to arrange an agreement

that would avoid a showdown but leave

the Muslim Brotherhood subordinate to

the generals.

Whatever U.S. imperialisms temporary

tactics, as WW contributing editor Fred

Goldstein wrote in WW on Aug. 8, A re-

liable and stable Egypt, which guards the

interests o imperialism, is the key to the

U.S. ruling class policy o domination in

the Middle East. And the real oundation

o Washington and the Pentagons grip on

Egypt is the Egyptian military.

Egypts workers and poor whetherthey currently ollow the Muslim Broth-

erhood, are in labor unions or are more

oriented toward the secular organiza-

tions all share a class interest o fght-

ing against imperialism and capitalism in

Egypt. Only i it is possible to orge unity

in struggle based on class interests will

it be possible to break up and push rom

power the repressive, pro-capitalist and

pro-imperialist military.

Te imperialist powers, and especiall

the U.S., have the main responsibilit

or the poverty o the Egyptian masse

and the turmoil in Egypt. Revolutionar

working-class organizations in the Unit

ed States must do what is possible to ge

the U.S. out o North Arica and Western

Asia. We must also explain to U.S. worker

the need or solidarity with the Egyptia

people and against spending tax money t

aid the dictatorships and monarchies i

the region or the Israeli settler state.

Stop the massacre in Egypt! End mili

tary rule! Free the elected government

U.S. and other imperialist powers out o

the Middle East!

Protest in new York City on Aug 14, 2013