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Cairo conference: anti-war spirit feeds wider anger in Egypt
“Keep the movement on the streets” was the message of the Fourth Cairo Conference against imperialism and globalisation, which was held in the Egyptian capital last week.

Over 2,000 people crammed into the Egyptian journalist union’s building to hear speakers from Egypt, Palestine, Europe and Iran. Hundreds of others crowde..

The Egyptian government has begun a crackdown on trade unionists at the heart of a recent wave of strikes.

Security police closed down the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services in the town of Nagaa Hammadi.

They are now threatening trade union centres in the cities of Helwan and Mahalla, where action by 27,000 workers in Ghazl el-Mahalla textile mill last December inspire..