The author provides an excellent review of efforts by ordinary Egyptians to achieve some form of social justice within the past few years. What is clear is that such efforts are being thwarted by major players from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Empire who have their own interests, interests which don't appear to coincide. The author argues that movements for social justice will not go away, and this fact...
...implies a change from the status quo of social injustice, which has brought millions of labor reformers, Coptic rights activists, Islamists, journalists, intellectuals, farmers, and ordinary people from all walks of life onto the streets over the past few years.
Some revolutionary plan for social reform must be put forward if the Egyptian people are to accept the government as the guarantor of their rights and well-being, rather than a stern overseer or a political prize to be fought over.
The current government and whoever takes its place in the coming year are fooling themselves if they believe a narrow focus on security and economic growth will halt demands for greater justice.
