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The purpose of the military junta’s savage repression of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), expressed most recently in the mass death sentence handed down March 24 against 529 of its members, is not just the elimination of its main bourgeois political rival. It is aimed at intimidating and suppressing opposition to what the military-backed government has in store for the working class.
Since seizing power in July 2013 amid mass protests against MB president Mohamed Mursi, the military government—largely made up of deposed president Hosni Mubarak’s cronies—has carried out a ruthless campaign of terror, violently attacking sit-ins, demonstrations and strikes …. http://www.globalresearch.ca