APIC (APICONG) Statement on the nomination of the Interim Government of Egypt

APIC(APICONG) embraces and reiterates the demands specified by Shabab 16 April:


• Dissolution of the current government.

• Abolition of the emergency law.

• The release of all [political] detainees.

• The formation of a presidential council, including civilians, and fair judges.

• Legal prosecution of all the media figures that have contributed in killing our martyrs.

• Dismantling the state security apparatus and restructuring of the ministry of interior as well as all of the NDP headquarters.

• Formation of a new technocratic government.

• Dissolution of the government led by Ahmed Shafik, which includes the foul faces that have a history of corruption such as Mufid Shehab, Aisha Abdel Hadi, Faiza Abu Naga, Sameh Fahmi, Ali Meselhi, Mahmoud Wagdy to be dismissed and Mhakthm and the formation of a new technocratic government.

*Technocratic government: is a specialised government which doesn't belong to any party; this government is used in the case of political differences.

Our revolution and struggle will continue until we achieve all our demands.

The revolution is not finished yet ...


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APIC (APICONG) endorses, embraces and reiterates the 


Statement of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution of the south Cairo neighborhoods of Maadi, Besatin and Dar el-Salam:

The blood from the martyrs has not yet dried. It asks us to continue our uprising that has the goal to achieve our demands and not be ruled by criminals. The revolution has achieved something great by the fall of the tyrant and many of his supporters. But it has to be underlined that many of the aims of the revolution have not yet been achieved, because the current rulers in our country prevent it. This requires that we continue the revolution in many forms by among other things strikes, sit-ins and uprisings. Besides that a Committees for the Defense of the Revolution should be established in the neighborhoods, cities and villages, so we can preserve the gains that the revolution has achieved, with the following demands:

1. The struggle for civilian rule is achieved by broader public and private liberty rights; such as the freedom to organize political parties, trade unions, trade union federations and freedom of the press, expression, opinions and believes.
2. The establishing of a national civilian government excluding the National Party, its officials and former presidential candidates. The council should consist of 5 judges from the Court of Cassation so that the army return to the barracks within one month.
3. The President's people, his current and former officials, ministers and presidents within the last thirty years to face trial for the crimes and corruption they committed. Furthermore their fortunes must be confiscated both at home and abroad so that they can be used to build factories and economic projects, with the purpose of helping solve the problem of unemployment.
4. The election of a constituent assembly to draft a democratic constitution for the new republic
5. Renationalisation of all state-owned land sold to thieves as businessmen and the corrupt regime over 30 years that should be directed to establish a fund to build homes for the youth.
6. Introduction of a progressive tax duty for all millionaires with the purpose of financing a minimum wage (1500 Egyptian pounds) for all workers and that the maximum wage does not exceed ten times the minimum.
7. Prosecution of the leaders of the Ministry of the Interior and those who participated in the killing of the protesters, innocents and the many thousands who were wounded, and the implementation of a system of appropriate compensation. This should give compensation to the families of both the dead and the wounded and those who need treatment should receive it at the expense of the state.
8. All political related prisoners to be released, both those arrested before and after January 25.
9. The dissolution of the state's Central Investigation and Central Security Units, a ban against the use of weapons in the repression of protest movements and a limitation of the role of the police in maintaining security under the peoples supervision.

Let us together support the establishment of Committee to Defend the Revolution in all neighborhoods, cities and villages.

Long live the Peoples January 25 revolution

Eternal glory to our loyal martyrs

The Committee for the Defense of the Revolution – Maadi, Besatin and Dar el-Salam

APIC (APICONG) reiterates its statement from January 30th:

Let me address, in these crucial hours, the heroic people of Egypt.
Let me address, in these decisive days, the courageous sons and
daughters of the Sudan.
Let me address, at the dawn of a new age, Tunisia's brave sons and
daughters, and the true heroes of the nations of the East in whose
hearts burns, like a divine promise of victory, the flame of liberation,
the longing for national rebirth, the thirst for justice and truth, the
spark of that fire which makes the human soul human.
Blood of your blood and spirit of your spirit, I am burning with you.
I have suffered with you in your suffering. I have died with you in your
dying. In your rebirth, I am reborn.
I am riot of your riot, victory of your victory.
With you I am saying that there is no hope but revolution, that there is
no way out and no future without it, that no one but the people can
govern the people's affairs.
Let our hearts be inspired by the grandeur of our national and cultural
heritage! Let our thoughts be inspired by the enlightenment of the
Golden Age, by the splendour and the light of a civilisation that does
not have its equal in this world and by the knowledge that this
civilisation lives within us, its seed being reborn with every new
generation! 
Let us no longer be ashamed to show our faces and let us speak our name
in dignity! Let us raise the beauty of our heritage as a banner! Let us
live our dreams with blood and soul! 
It is time for the nations of the East to rise as one.
Our problems are deep and what lies at their root is the fact that we
have not been ourselves. Arab problems require Arab solutions. Middle
Eastern solutions are the only way to tackle Middle Eastern problems.
Not one day longer let this fact be ignored. We are not the backyard of
any Imperialist power. We shall not be governed from abroad. Our
policies shall not be dictated by foreign interests.
Every government of national unity must understand this first of all.
Else, it shall not last one day. And it must not be allowed to.
Let us take our rightful place among the nations. Let independence not
be a farce. Let national souvereignty be souvereignty indeed.
No longer and never again let a government be tolerated whose first and
singular priority is not the interests and the welfare of the people. It
is the veins of the people whose blood, salt and sweetness nourishes the
earth of the motherland. The nation is every one of her children. Every
and each of her sons. Every and each of her daughters.
The motherland is our love and our truth. She is our history and our
future. She is our present.
Our earth is an earth with many faces. Many faiths and many cultures
have grown on her soil. They are the fertile seed from which her
splendour, her high civilisations, her enilghtenment, her hopes and her
promise are descended. One without the other is nothing. Their
interaction alone is the cradle of the high culture. And the possibility
of this high culture is destroyed whenever any one of them lays claim to
exclusiveness. The potential of every great nation lies its
multi-cultural character. The interaction of different cultures and
faiths is the cradle of the Golden Age, the cradle of every nation's
true greatness and civilisatory force. Let this be at the core of our
national and cultural rebirth. Let society, in its renewal, be
pluralistic-- multi-cultural and multi-religious. Let us draw our
strength from the discovery of our selves in the mirror of the other.
Let unity in diversity and versatility be the source of our greatness,
as we, true descendants of our ancient civilisations, make our impact,
once again, on the global history of human civilisation.
Political stability rests on the pillar of an efficient balance, on a
stable equilibrium, of secular and religious elements in our lives and
day-to-day administration. Any suppression or political exclusivity of
either would upset that balance which is the very heart of the sanity
and self-awareness of every nation.
Democracy, then, must be democracy in the true sense: the people as the
political executive under all circumstances and the prevalence of the
people's interests at any costs. A parliamentary sham is not enough. No
game, no political illusion can take the place of the people in the
history of the nations and in the administration of their affairs.
Long live the rebirth of the East! Long live the unity of our peoples
and nations! All power to the people!
Long live the people's revolution!

Muhammad A. Al Mahdi
(APIC [APICONG])
January 30th, 2011