Workers of Egypt Unite!

"Since 2004, Egypt has been rocked by the largest wave of worker actions that the country has seen in the postwar period. In this stretch of time, over 1.2 million workers have participated in strikes, factory occupations, sit-ins, and demonstrations. Many of these collective actions have been spontaneously organized, spread across industrial, manufacturing, and service sectors. The 2006 textile worker strike at Misr Spinning and Weaving Company, in Ghazl al-Mahalla, represented another significant victory in Egypt's largest public industrial enterprise."