Press release

Socialist Candidate Kamal Khalil’s Campaign

NDP Thugs and Security Tear Down Campaign Banners

Members of Socialist candidate Kamal Khalil's campaign in Imbaba were surprised to find out that NDP supporters and the police in the neighborhood tore all of his electoral banners down, on Saturday, 29 October.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that the supporters of the NDP candidate Ismail Hilal, took down the posters around Iftar time, with the blessing of State Security police, to disrupt the socialist candidate’s campaign against the ruling NDP and Mubarak’s policies.
We condemn such actions by Hilal and the security, and we are determined to continue campaigning against Mubarak’s corrupt regime. We will do our best to expose the thuggery of our ruling cliques, and present a socialist alternative.
We call upon all freedom fighters and campaigners for democracy and liberty to join us in our struggle against Mubarak’s dictatorship.

Kamal Khalil’s Campaign 29 October, 2005

For more information, call Wael Khalil, the campaign’s media coordinator:+20123233145
Kamal Khalil’s mobile phone:+20106030294
www.imbaba2005.net

Why I’m running for parliament

Kamal Khalil, Director of the Center for Socialist Studies

A message to all those who are fighting for change, dream of a free democratic Egypt, and those who are in search of justice and social equality

I am a socialist, whose loyalty goes for our country’s oppressed and poor. I relate to the dwellers of the slums, huts, and shaabi areas. I belong to the workers, poor peasants, and the deprived. My loyalty is for the suppressed, from women, Copts, the handicapped, to the residents of Upper Egypt and Nubia.

As a socialist, as someone who has fought for change over the past 35 years, during which I engaged in numerous political battles and entered Mubarak’s prisons’ maze more than 15 times—I understand fully the nature of the current phase Egypt is going through.

We are living in the age of capitalist thuggery. Never did the political hegemony of businessmen reach that level at any point over the past 50 years. This country has become the target for the biggest organized looting operation, carried out by a handful of monopolists allied with the ruling gang, who is headed by Mubarak and his family.

The wealth of this country, its economic resources, and productive capacities are today squandered among those ruling gangsters in their fun parties, in negotiations kept away from the public. The Mubaraks, the ruling gang, and the business dinosaurs are dividing a cake—our country—among themselves as if it was some farm they inherited from their fathers.

Corruption has spread to all ranks of the state as a result of such unholy alliance between political power and wealth. Our minister of culture, the killer of intellectuals, does not find time for culture, because he is busy with stolen antiquities deals and transforming Egypt’s great heritage to a commodity in the Egyptian capitalist market. Another minister sold the people carcinogenic pesticides, plaguing our sons and daughters with diseases. That minister was protected by his legal immunity, and his position as the vice president of the ruling party. A third minister, the infamous Shazli, charges a well-known commission for every favor and service.
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