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Egyptian activists on the rise of the Egyptian Working Class movement

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29 January 2011
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In these videos a leader of the newly formed Independent Union of Real Estate Tax Collectors speaks about the struggle to form independent unions and a speaker from the Centre for Socialist Studies speaks on the working class movement.


John Rees

Filmed at Marxism 2009, central London

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