Letters from Egypt

February 20^th

HUNDRED OF WORKERS FENCED LIBYAN EMBASSY

On February 19th and 20th, the Embassy of Libya in Cairo was blocked and had to close its doors as hundreds of Egyptian workers were trying to get a visa to work in Libya. When workers strongly asked on the Embassy, the bourgeoisie authorities inside it got terrified and tried to escape. The day after, they didn’t show up. The workers rage was exteriorized and reflected on the doors and glasses of the Embassy, some of them got broken.

There are more than a million Egyptian workers working in Libya. There is their source of work, where they want to go back.

On February, 20th, a Libyan speaker, looking to the public, explained that everybody was going to get their visa and Libyan authorities ‘were happy to received the Egyptians in order to go to work in Libya’. But, if it is like that, then, why they put the condition of getting an entry visa and they don’t remove that restriction letting Egyptians cross, freely, the border to work? Why have they closed all factories in Libya? Why the Army control on the borders?
The truth is that the bourgeoisie denies the right to the workers to be able to work. The workers are the only ones who can defend it, as it was clear in Libya, when workers in arms (the militias) took the factories that boss closed, as in Egypt, too, where workers are the only interested ones in being able to cross to go to work.

 Open the Libyan borders now!

The workers organizations, social and youths militant movements of Egypt coordinate with the Libyan militias an employment service so Egyptian workers can get into the Libyan occupied factories, under armed workers control!
Expropriation without payment of all the factories and oil companies and the entire labor source in Libya under the militias and workers committee control!
The revolution in the North of Africa was for bread, work and freedom. Today, despite the shed blood, we haven’t got it. Out the Libyan TNC! Out the Military Junta in Egypt! For a worker and peasant government with the masses self organized and armed! For the United Socialist States of the North of Africa and Middle East!

Letter of workers from Tahrir Square