In an excellent article in yesterday's Guardian, Eric Lee of LabourStart and Benjamin Weinthal bring to the fore the role played by the trade unions in both Tunisia and Egypt.
Rather than Iran, Lee and Weinthal point to Poland in 1980 as a suitable parallel for today's protests in Egypt, where the growth of independent trade union, Solidarnosc, led to the complete collapse of the Stalinist state machine.
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