A-Infos (en) Egypt, Statement by Comrades from Cairo to the IMF (gr) [machine translation]

The following statement was released by Comrades from Cairo on October 30, 2012. --- Dear 
friends, the next period will again face a familiar foe that many of you have and continue 
to fight. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary 
Fund (IMF), have long been assisting in the looting of the Egyptian economy and the 
displacement of the Egyptian people. Our goal is to resist in these institutions and their 
depredations. Because we know that this struggle is universal, send this letter to all 
those working in solidarity against the bankers and their friends. ---- After the 
revolution, these organizations put once again the target of the country, hoping to 
consolidate and extend their control. Citing "economic instability", they want to impose 
their program in Egypt - an affordable solution that will increase, once again, the gap 
between rich and poor and will endanger the livelihood of millions of people.

What we call "instability" is nothing other than the revolt of the base that opposes the 
status quo of political and economic hegemony of the Egyptian state.

The real problem is that we have yet to remove them - trained to International Financial 
Institutions - economists continue to manage the ministries and our banks, and the new 
leadership of Egypt maintains a neoliberal logic of governance. The Muslim Brotherhood, 
the generals, bureaucrats and bankers have the same intentions in mind: continuing 
exploitation, theft and commercialization of natural and human resources of the country.

While some of the key leaders of the Brotherhood have promoted neoliberal policies years 
ago, shortly after taking power, the organization officially changed its by-religion 
positions against the IMF loan, citing economic "necessity". In practice, this means 
priority requirements of banks and financial institutions and not on policies that enhance 
social justice for the Egyptians. Moreover, while the IMF states that the loan has 
conditions, a "package of economic reforms" carried out by the lackeys of the Egyptian 
economic system must be approved by the Fund prior to the loan disbursed. Indeed, without 
conditions ...

IMF may be the most obvious creditor with expansionist tendencies, but it is not only the 
creation and maintenance of unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, and 
based on domination and subordination. Just as dangerous are institutions such as the 
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank and European Investment aiming to 
commercialize, privatize and plunder everything from transport and electricity to the 
Nile. Many of these banks have argued for years our dictators, applauding their efforts to 
subjugate us, the earth and our water, to private capital.

Egypt is no exception. The revolution in South Africa against apartheid was considered a 
threat to economic stability - the new leadership that emerged boasted revolutionary 
credentials that enabled the implementation of the neoliberal project, which exceeded the 
colonialists predecessors. Following his election victory, with promises of progressive 
programs, Lula, President of Brazil, presents a growing neoliberal policies "rinsed" with 
charity projects for an increasingly impoverished underclass. The same happened in India 
when economic policies, to help the country decided to enter global markets, led thousands 
of farmers into debt and losing their livelihoods, while increasing stratification between 
rich and poor. And the examples continue. Across the world, these International Financial 
Institutions and the Nordic governments that support them, exploiting the uncertainty of 
the "post-revolutionary" era by imposing austerity measures and tightening its grip on the 
nations that rise up against these control systems.

Egypt is no exception. Their solution is our problem, "economic stability" is the misery 
and exploitation us - why they rebel. If we are all together we can strengthen our 
position towards them.

We recognize the origin of this fight against international financial institutions and the 
IMF: A worldwide network of inspired people and activists, of which we are part. Today, we 
in Egypt are under attack and imminent threat, and we have decided to fight.

For those who have similarly become the target of the IMF and the International Financial 
Institutions and fight against these predators, let's find ways to combine and unite our 
forces against them loans at local and global levels.

For the others, we ask you to complain to banks located in your countries, and use 
creative resistance and direct action strategies so that we can put an end together, the 
injustices and oppression imposed by these institutions.

No boss, no creditors!

Sincerely,

The Comrades from Cairo

comradesfromcairo@gmail.com

* Translation: filistina
Related Link: http://filistina.wordpress.com
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