(en) Organisation Communiste Libertarie - Taksim and Rio Tahir, the smell of tear gas Call "Comrades from Cairo" (fr)

Taksim Tahrir, Bulgaria, Brazil, are fighting the same battle against the oppressive state 
structures that benefit only a small wealthy elite. ---- Open letter from Egyptian 
activist collective "Comrades from Cairo" ---- To you the ribs which we fight. ---- June 
30 will mark a new step for us to rebellion, building on what began on 25 and 28 January 
2011. This time, we rebel against the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood which brought only 
more of the same forms of economic exploitation, police violence, torture and murder. ---- 
References to the arrival of "democracy" are irrelevant when there is no possibility to 
live a decent life in the absence of any sign of dignity and means of decent living. The 
claims of legitimacy achieved through an electoral process want to forget reality in Egypt 
continue our struggle because we are faced with the perpetuation of an oppressive regime 
that has changed its face but has the same logic of repression of austerity and police 
brutality.

The authorities maintain the same lack of accountability to the public, and the positions 
of power result in opportunities to increase personal power and wealth of its members.

June 30, renew the cry of the Revolution: "The people want the fall of the system" . We 
seek a future that is not governed by the petty authoritarianism and cronyism of the 
Brotherhood or a military unit that maintains a stranglehold on the political and economic 
life, or a return to the old structures of the era Mubarak. Although the ranks of 
demonstrators take to the streets on June 30 are not united on this appeal, it must be 
ours - it should be our position because we will not accept a return to bloody periods in 
the past.

Although our networks are still low, we get our hopes and inspiration of recent uprisings, 
especially those that have arisen through Turkey and Brazil. Each is born of distinct 
political and economic realities, but we have all been ruled by small circles whose desire 
was mainly perpetuated a lack of vision of all that might be good for the people. We are 
inspired by the horizontal organization of the movement for free public transport founded 
in Bahia, Brazil in 2003 and public meetings that have spread throughout Turkey.

In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood have only added a religious veneer on the process, while 
the logic of neo-liberalism localized crush the people. In Turkey, an aggressive growth 
strategy in the private sector is also reflected by an authoritarian regime, the same 
logic of police brutality as the main weapon to suppress opposition and any attempt to 
consider alternative solutions. In Brazil, one rooted in a revolutionary legitimacy 
government proved that his past is a mask he dons when he teamed up with the same order in 
the capitalist exploitation of people and, similarly, the Nature.

These recent struggles share the struggle of much older constant struggles of the Kurds 
and the indigenous peoples of Latin America. For decades, the Turkish and Brazilian 
governments have tried in vain to destroy these movements struggle for life. Resistance to 
state repression was the forerunner of the new wave of protests that have spread across 
Turkey and Brazil. We see an urgent need to recognize the depth of each of these struggles 
and we are looking for forms of rebellion spread to new areas, neighborhoods and communities.

Our struggles share the potential to oppose the global system of nation-states. In times 
of crisis, as in times of prosperity, the state - in Egypt during the reign of Mubarak, 
the military junta and the Muslim Brotherhood - continues to deprive us and deprive us of 
our rights in order to preserve and increase wealth and privileges of those in power.

None of us do not fight alone. We face common enemies in Bahrain, Brazil, Bosnia, Chile, 
Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan, Tunisia, Sudan, Western Sahara and Egypt. And the 
list goes on. Everywhere they call us thugs, vandals, looters and terrorists. We fight 
more than economic exploitation, the relentless violence of the police or an illegitimate 
judicial system. It is not for human or reformed citizenship we fight.

We oppose the nation-state as a central tool of repression, which allows a local elite we 
suck the life and world powers to maintain their dominance in our daily lives. Both work 
in unison with bullets and TV shows, and everything else. We do not advocate unify or 
create equivalences between our various battles, but it is the structure of authority and 
power that we must fight and dismantle them down. Together, our struggle is stronger.

We want the fall of the system.

Comrades from Cairo

Source: Roarmarg.org