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December 27, 2017

Egyptian Labor Lawyer Khaled Ali Announces Bid for Presidency
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Meanwhile, in more news from Egypt, labor lawyer Khaled Ali has
announced his intention to run for president, pitting the left activist
against authoritarian Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Khaled
Ali was among the labor leaders who helped support nationwide strikes in
Egypt in 2011 amid the uprising that toppled former military dictator
Hosni Mubarak. This is Ali, speaking in a Democracy Now! interview in
2011.

Khaled Ali: "The workers have successfully launched and sustained the
largest wave of labor mobilizations this county has seen, from 2004
until 2011. The workers are the ones who brought down the structures of
this regime in the past years. Workers laid the ground for the emergence
of this revolution, and I believe that any analysis which says otherwise
is superficial."



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