Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm has an interesting article on how the sweeping labour protests in Cairo and beyond are turning what had initially been a Tahrir-specific uprising to a nationwide revolution.
Professionals, workers and employees across the nation staged protests demanding better working conditions this week, with growing momentum. Some are first-timers, while others demonstrated before. Yet they all gathered on the basis that the time is ripe for such moves.
Some of the strikes, according to the article, have strictly economic demands and have gone out of their way to describe themselves as "having nothing to do with" the pro-democracy campaign, while others have added demands for regime change to their industry-specific economic demands.
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