A Vision To What Happened In April 6

By Ilhamy El-Marghany
About 25,000 workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla al-Kubra has announced as early as January that they would stage a massive strike on 6 April if their ongoing demands for improved wages and labor conditions were not met. The 6 April labor threat had snowballed into calls for a public nationwide strike spread via SMSs, blogs and websites, especially the Facebook. These calls had been crystallized into the "Stay At Home" call, which spread nationwide. Due to the danger that supposed to surround the April 6, 2008 strike action and the security measures, which could be preemptive measures or tough crackdowns and violent confrontations, the Hisham Mubarak Law Center along with some human rights organizations had decided to create a legal front defending the would-be demonstrators in case of arresting them. The Front consisted of The Hisham Mubarak Law Center; Al Hilali Society for Liberties (Bar Association); The Democratic Lawyers Group; Al Hilali Association for Liberties; the Freedom of Thought and Expression Association; The Egyptian Association for Promoting Societal Participation; the Mahalla Lawyers Committee.
This book came to light as an attempt to read the papers of April 6, document its events and to evaluate the roles played by all the concerned parties and specially the political parties in Egypt.