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"Mr President, a protestor in Tahrir Square summed it up when he said that Egypt is like a house where the curtains have been changed but everything else is the same. It was a mass movement and strike wave that managed to topple Mubarak, but the new military rulers in the SCAF have not made life better for ordinary Egyptian people or met their democratic demands and aspirations. Unemployment is now at 12%, representing an increase; inflation has risen to over 10%; 40% of the population struggle to survive on less than USD 2 per day and austerity policies are being introduced by the regime. The military apparatus has remained completely intact, and the new rulers are using violence and trying to foster sectarian division to maintain a justification for their rule. That was seen most dramatically with the events at Port Said, with 74 people killed and hundreds injured in events that clearly had the hand of the security forces behind them.
Despite that, the mass of people have not given up: they continue to struggle. There is a growing awareness of the need for a second revolution to take political power out of the hands of the military and to take economic power out of the hands of the elite into democratic public ownership."@en1
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