The Bread Uprising

On the 18th of January, 1977, Egypt erupted into a huge popular uprising against the government's removal of food subsidies. For two days, hundreds of thousands of people across the country were variously involved in strikes, riots, occupations, looting, and sabotage. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat described it as “the uprising of thieves”; the Egyptian people called it by a different name: The Bread Intifada. Our report on the uprising, the decade of worker-student militancy leading up to it, and its relevance today comes to us from the Working Class History podcast.

On this week’s Labor History in Two: If Poison Doesn’t Work, Try Briggs! (1933) & More Labor Than They Planned (1936).

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This week's music: Sheikh Imam’s Build Your Palaces; performed by Fadi Al Naji.