Events in Egypt are at a turning point. The movement has forced Mubarak to announce his departure, but demonstrators are demanding he goes now. Pro-Mubarak thugs - many of them clearly plain clothes police - are trying to create a strategy of tension, violently attacking protesters in Tahrir square.The next few days are crucial to what happens next.
We are therefore calling a demonstration in solidarity with the Egyptian uprising this Saturday.
DEMONSTRATE
Saturday 5th Feb
2.30 assemble outside the US embassy, Grosvenor Square, London W1K.
March to the Egyptian embassy.
Solidarity with the Egyptian people. Freedom for the Middle East. No more US/British/EU intervention. No to the repression of the pro-democracy movement!
Saturday 5 February has been designated a day for international solidarity protests with the Egyptian uprising.
The London demonstration that assembles at the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square at 2.30pm is one of hundreds in towns and cities across the globe, from the United States to the Lebanon, from Venezuela to the Netherlands, from Canada to Turkey, from Australia to the West Bank and Gaza.
The Egyptian uprising is now facing its pivotal moment, with Mubarak having unleashed his thugs to attack the pro-democracy protesters. Mubarak is using state TV to spread the lie that the mass demonstrations calling for him to go are the work of "foreign elements".
The significance of international solidarity action across the world cannot be over-stated. It sends a message to the millions
who have joined the Egyptian protests that their courage and determination have been an inspiration to us all.
And it sends a message to our own government that it needs to call for Hosni Mubarak to leave office immediately.
Making generalised statements deploring the violence, which has been David Cameron's response, will not do, in particular from a government, which like all those that preceded it, has up till now given unqualified support to Mubarak's tyranny.
Tony Blair's statement this week that Mubarak is "immensely courageous and a force for good" was not just more raving from the swivel-eyed former prime minister: it was until the Egyptian uprising the view of all British prime ministers.
The widespread support in this country for the Egyptian uprising was reflected in yesterday's Stop the War public meeting, at which over 400 people packed the Conway Hall to hear speeches from, among others, George Galloway, eye-witnesses just returned from Cairo and Lowkey. (Videos of the speeches will be available soon on the Stop the War website).
Please join the demonstration on Saturday if you can. And publicise it as widely as possible. A leaflet is available for downloading to print, here: http://tinyurl.com/5tkfncw
DAY OF INTERNATIONAL ACTION
SATURDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2011
SOLIDARITY WITH THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING
ASSEMBLE 2.30PM UNITED STATES EMBASSY
GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON W1K
MARCH TO EGYPTIAN EMBASSY
For updates: http://stopwar.org.uk/
