#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, Galatea FAI: The Egyptian el-Sisi is preparing for the #COP27 summit by repressing dissent (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Protesters call for climate action on the African continent ahead of the COP27

summit which will start on November 6 and end on November 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh,
Egypt (photo November 4) ---- Translation from the original "Egypt's el-Sisi
prepares for Cop27 summit by cracking down on dissent" ---- The 2022 United
Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 27) will be held in the tourist resort of
Sharm el-Sheikh, in the Sinai desert, between November 6 and 18, away from the
noxious fumes and squalor of the capital Cairo - where about 20 million Egyptians
live, most of them impoverished. ---- About 90 heads of state and leaders from
190 countries will participate in the event, including United States President
Joe Biden - the first visit to Egypt by an American President since 2009 -,
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor German Olaf Scholz, British Prime
Minister Rishi Sunak and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The brutal Egyptian dictator, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, organized a massive
security operation to prevent demonstrators from arriving in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Security forces have arrested hundreds of people across the country, including
environmental activists, accusing them of belonging to terrorist groups. This
comes as appeals on social media multiply for Egyptians to protest in Sharm
el-Sheikh against the country's growing economic crisis on Friday 11 November -
calling the event "Climate Revolution".

Draconian security measures have turned the location into a "war zone" to
"protect the event" - in what UN human rights experts have described as "a
climate of fear for Egyptian civil society organizations. in visibly committing
to Cop27 ". To the extent that any demonstration is permitted, it is likely to be
confined to hidden areas in the desert, away from world leaders and their luxury
hotels.

These events alone lay bare the human rights propaganda and empty climate policy
slogans advocated by the leaders of the imperialist powers who support the
interests of the planet's major predators: corporate and financial kleptocracy.

El-Sisi took the opportunity to strengthen his international position and promote
Egypt's position at the center of gas geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean,
in the context of the US and NATO-led war against Russia - which has reduced
energy supplies to Europe. El-Sisi, after taking power in a Western-backed
military coup in 2013 and overthrowing Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated
president-elect Mohamed Mursi, heads a tyrannical regime that outlaws peaceful
assemblies and freedom of word. The suppression of all forms of dissent is aimed
at defending Egyptian and foreign capital from a social explosion of the working
class - which faces mass poverty, social inequality and an army that controls at
least 40% of the Egyptian economy. .

Starting with a bloodbath that killed more than 1,000 people, el-Sisi security
forces subsequently killed hundreds more. Others were executed after illegal
trials (in English: "kangaroo court", that is a justice that proceeds with leaps
like a kangaroo. Basically the judge "jumps over" or ignores the evidence that
would be in favor of the accused and condemns him, ndt).
Egyptian prisons, synonymous with torture and disappearances, overflow with over
60,000 political prisoners, including some of the country's most prominent
politicians. Many are detained without trial. All strikes, protests and
demonstrations are prohibited by the draconian laws of the Egyptian state of
emergency. The heavily censored media are spokespersons for the state, while
parties and organizations that criticize the regime are outlawed.

Although el-Sisi has released a handful of inmates ahead of Cop27, the number of
new arrests is far greater. He ignored appeals from around 200 organizations and
individuals, including 13 Nobel Prize winners for literature, to release
journalists and political prisoners ahead of the conference, including activists
Alaa Abdel Fattah and Ahmed Douma, human rights lawyer Mohamed. el Baqer, blogger
Mohamed "Oxygen" Ibrahim, former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul
Fotouh, Seif and Safwan Thabet and environmentalist Ahmed Amasha.

The well-known blogger and political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has dual
British and Egyptian citizenship, was one of the first opponents of the Mubarak
dictatorship; since 2011 he has spent much of his time in prison accused of
inciting violence against the military and opposing laws banning protests. On
Tuesday he announced that he would step up the partial hunger strike that began
in April, refusing any food or drink.

All this does not prevent world leaders from participating in COP27 in Egyptian
territory or giving el-Sisi a stand, even if they cite the looming energy
shortage, the result of their own actions against Russia, to build coal plants
and increase exploration of gas and oil, thus closing the deficit.

The conference takes place as Egypt faces an increasingly desperate economic and
financial crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic that officially killed
only 25,000 people (probably a huge underestimate in a country where only 39% of
the 104 million inhabitants was fully vaccinated).[Foreign]remittances from
Egyptians working in the Gulf have declined and workers have returned[to the
country], swelling the ranks of the unemployed. Revenues have collapsed, while
spending on health care, social assistance and support for tourism and the
industrial sector has increased.

The war in Ukraine has hit Egypt hard, which is the largest wheat importer in the
world, with around 80% of supplies coming from Russia and Ukraine. The Egyptian
tourism industry is highly dependent on Russian and Ukrainian visitors and
accounts for 12% of GDP, while rising US interest rates and soaring dollar value
have exacerbated the Egyptian debt crisis, leading to a outflow of foreign funds.

The Egyptian pound fell from $ 16 to $ 23 after the Egyptian Central Bank
announced it was abandoning the peg of the pound to the dollar, letting it float
in accordance with market forces in exchange for a $ 3 billion loan from the
Egyptian pound. of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the fourth since 2016,
which makes Egypt the second largest borrower after Argentina.

This loan is a drop in the ocean. Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs said Cairo
would need $ 15 billion from the IMF over the next three years to fill a $ 40
billion financial deficit - used in supporting vain projects of el- Yes, yes.
These include a new $ 59 billion administrative capital 28 miles in the desert
east of Cairo, a $ 25 billion nuclear reactor, and an $ 8 billion Suez Canal
expansion that failed to bring in revenue. expected (enormously inflated).

El-Sisi's massive arms purchases -[coming]largely from the United States, despite
the Biden administration having suspended some arms deals in mock horror of the
appalling human rights situation[in Egypt]- made it possible to repress the
masses not only in Egypt but throughout the region, further aggravating the deficit.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar have pledged investments
of approximately $ 22 billion, buying some of the country's most profitable
state-owned assets and companies at bargain prices in an effort to stabilize the
country's most populous country. Arab world. This drew Cairo into Washington's
anti-Iran alliance, with El-Sisi attending Jeddah's meeting with Biden and
leaders of the Gulf states, Jordan and Iraq in July.

Cairo played a key role in maintaining Israel's 15-year criminal blockade on the
Gaza Strip, ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group, Hamas, by
preventing any reconstruction after the Strip was rendered nearly uninhabitable
by repeated Israeli assaults and brokered a ceasefire in August between
Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Israel under Tel Aviv terms.

At home, El-Sisi cut subsidies on basic household and agricultural products,
raised fuel prices, imposed new taxes, including a value-added tax, cut health
and education budgets, and he fired civil servants.

All of this has served to accelerate the government's transfer of wealth from the
middle and lower classes to itself and the business elite, with devastating
consequences for Egyptian workers and their families. Inflation is now at 15%,
although the prices of some food products have risen by 66%, destroying much of
the Egyptian middle class and leading to soaring poverty rates. About 30% of the
population lives below the poverty line, another 30% is close to poverty and
almost 70% depends on food rations.

The presence of almost all the great powers at COP27 should be a warning to the
international working class. The elite's embrace of el-Sisi means that they do
not disagree with his brutal methods. They will not hesitate to take his pattern
as an example when it comes to cracking down on mass resistance to their hated
policies of war, profit-making, social austerity and earnings before pandemic policy.

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