The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of the Egyptian Left

Part 4: The early 2000s – rise in class struggle

This is the fourth of a series of interviews, the comrades from Berlin LINKE Internationals conducted with me, about the history of the Egyptian left.

Suez Canal workers on strike in Ismailia. 9 September 2008. Photo taken by me.

In Part 1 we discussed the first two Egyptian Communist Waves, from 1919 to the 1960s, while Part 2 dealt with Egypt’s 1968 and…