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		<title>It all depends on Tahrir</title>
		<description>Discuss It all depends on Tahrir</description>
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			<title>Teacher, Cairo</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[OK but it sounds like you have some pretty well informed people on the ground here. I will send you my impressions of post election Cairo in a few days to the counterfire email. By the way I think I was wrong on Shafik winning. The SCAF are not confident enough to completely rig the elections.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: It all depends on Tahrir</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Chris, Thanks for this note. Yes, I think the call for Morsi to pull out definitely had traction, and all the more so after SCAF dissolved parliament. But, knowing the MB as we do, it was always unlikely that he would. Actually I think that it was even more important to vote for Morsi after the dissolution than before it (even though the elections cannot resolve the situation). This is because SCAF's actions were aimed at the MB and the divisions between (and within) the MB and SCAF have been exposed to greater tension. In these circumstances the policy that Lenin recommended towards Kerensky at the time of the Kornilov coup attempt are applicable: 'we will rest our rifles on Kerensky's shoulder to shoot at Kornilov. After we have done with Kornilov, the fewer questions about Kerensky the better!' I paraphrase from memory, but the gist is we join forces with the enemy of tomorrow to defeat the enemy of today. Yes, I saw Hamdeen's position. I worked with Hamdeen for ten years (and Morsi for that matter) in the Cairo conference and I have great respect for him and I understand why he didn't want to split his base by calling for a vote for Morsi...but its still a short-sighted decision. I agree about Tahrir...I've been saying for a while that the revolutionaries have to build a base beyond Tahrir and a strategy (and revolutionary institutions) which are more than Tahrir. And of course you are right that the workers are central to this. But some on the left have had too narrow a version of what this means ('the strikes will save us'). But working class politics in a revolution always means having a strategy for the class to become hegemonic over the whole revolutionary movement, not just a syndicalist strategy. This false polarization by the left is one reason (though not the major one) why the MB has dominated opposition politics since the fall of Mubarak. Good to talk...why don't you write us some reports as things unfold?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Rees</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>teacher, Cairo</title>
			<link>http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/international/15841-it-all-depends-on-tahrir#comment-4220</link>
			<description><![CDATA[John, Your arguments and others convinced me that revolutionaries should vote for Mursi(with no illusions). I am by the way in no party just an independent socialist who happens to be in Egypt. As far as I can make out Sabahy's party is boycotting the elections and my suggestion of pressurising Morsi to pull out was not that mad after all as I have heard this argument from some of the best fighters in the MB. Anyway you're right, the counter revolution is in full swing and I expect a victory for Shafik.This is what the recent rulings have prepared the way for, which again makes me wonder whether a vote for Mursi is that relevant given that is seems that the outcome has been stitched up by SCAF. Yes back to Tahrir, but don't forget the factories of Mahalla, to be honest this is where the revolution began a few years ago...and metaphorically this is where it will be won and lost. Not in Tahrir, though that is also important.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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