State & Barracks

State & Barracks

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

Part 2: Egypt’s 1968 and the aftermath

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Jun 03, 2023
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This is the second of a series of interviews, the comrades from Berlin LINKE Internationals conducted with me, about the history of the Egyptian left. You can read the first part here.

Poster by the Egyptian National Union of Students, denouncing President Anwar Sadat, in support of the January 1977 Bread Uprising [Public Domain]

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