THE US ruling class has finally worked out its line on the military coup that was carried out in Egypt to overthrow the elected Muslim Brotherhood government, headed by President Mohammed Mursi.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Egypt’s military was ‘restoring democracy’ when it ousted elected President Mursi last month.
In fact, the military has already killed hundreds of people to re-establish itself as the rulers of Egypt.
Immediately after the coup, Obama was cautioned by the Israeli Premier, Netanyahu, not to oppose the military’s action, and not to stop the billions of dollars that flow from the US into the coffers of the army, since this would harm Israel’s security.
The Zionists told Obama that any weakening of the Egyptian army would harm Israel, since it would open its Sinai border to attack and could even lead to the ending of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
The facts are that the Egyptian army polices the border with Palestine and Israel, including the Gaza frontier, closing the border as it pleases and denying the Palestinian people in Gaza aid, food and fuel when it wishes to discipline them.
The US, therefore, initially adopted the line that the coup was not a coup but that the Army should hand over to democratic politicians as quickly as possible.
That line has now been developed to say that the Egyptian army leaders took action to overthrow the government of the day in order to advance democracy, and has therefore been killing people every day to further advance the democratic process.
Kerry now says the removal was at the request of ‘millions and millions of people’.
His remarks come as police prepare to disperse two pro-Mursi sit-ins in the capital, Cairo, warning the Mursi supporters that they will be ‘safe’ if they quit the sit-ins at once.
Kerry said of the coup: ‘And the military did not take over, to the best of our judgement – so far. To run the country, there’s a civilian government. In effect, they were restoring democracy.’
The cynicism of the servants of the US ruling class knows no bounds.
The facts of the matter are that the US supported the Mursi regime which responded by supporting the US-organised war to overthrow Assad in Syria, and by continuing the treaty with Israel at the same time as it sought to drive back Egypt’s insurgent trade unions.
However, all this came to nothing when 18 million Egyptian workers and youth took to the streets over the way that the Mursi regime was attacking their jobs, wages, living standards and trade unions.
This mass movement became bigger by the hour and was removing Mursi. This convinced the US that the army had to be unleashed, because the alternative was to see a workers’ and poor people’s government emerge in Egypt that would further revolutionise the entire region.
The US is now publicly getting behind the generals and urging them to scatter the remnants of the Mursi movement quickly and then establish a veil of tame bourgeois politicians to front the military dictatorship.
Consequently, Egypt’s interior ministry released a statement on Thursday calling ‘on those in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares to let reason and the national interest prevail, and to quickly leave’.
What will come next is a US-backed military drive against the working class, to drive the trade unions back and create the conditions for the establishment of a political front for the Egyptian military dictatorship, through which the bourgeoisie will continue to rule Egypt.
Such a regime cannot satisfy a single requirement of the tens of millions of workers and the rural poor.
The Egyptian trade unions must establish their own revolutionary party, a section of the Fourth International, to organise a socialist revolution and a socialist future for the Egyptian masses.
This will be part of a Federation of Socialist States throughout the Middle East, whose pride of place will go to Palestine, and whose capital will be Jerusalem.
