Sunday, December 21, 2008

Egyptian Tax Collectors

Via Arabist: Egyptian real estate tax collectors--after striking, protesting, and showing an incredible degree of solidarity in the past year--created an independent trade union today, the first since the late 50s when unions and class struggle were subsumed under and engulfed by Nasserism.

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