ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the pro-democracy movement, whose history and tactics significantly shaped the way revolutionary actors able to develop since the downfall of Mubarak. The objection was that such a claim ignored the historical continuity of national and global struggles against injustice and regimes of exploitation over the decades. In the same way, it is also, at best, naive of commentators to see the mass uprising in Tahrir and across Egypt's major squares as an isolated event with no historical lineage. While the issue of war and occupation sparked the launching of the conference, it is to demonstrate and discuss the links between global structures of exploitation. Kefaya capitalized on the experience of groups active in the previous four years such as Egyptian Popular Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada (EPCSPI), the Cairo Conference, the Egyptian Anti-Globalization Group (AGEG), and professional groups including Democratic Engineers and March Group for Academic Freedom, both launched in 2003.
