"prisons all around us' | IMGpapers 1976

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POLITICAL repression in Egypt has been on the increase food arice rises a year ago JUL OL LUR most prominent victims of this repression has been the popular poet Alued Fouad Negm, who bas started a hunger strike with 21 other political prisoners 10 protest against their detention.

Negm is suftering trom haemorrhaging stomach ulcer and it 1s Egyptian authorities may try to opposstion 'doing a Biko Negm was born in 1929 in an Egyptian village, received no formal education and worked for years as an agricultural labourer, His stinging political poems are read througbout the Arah world. The example we print here gives some idea of why Sedat's regime is afraid of him.

BUILD YOUR PALACES

With our labor and our hands And prisons instead of gardens just You can steal our sleep We have slept too long You can overwhelm us with pain him.

Workers, peasants and students No turning back Victory is on the horizon You can build your palaces on our fields You can set up night clubs near the factories You can let your dogs loose in the streets And put your prisons all around us We have come to the end of our suffering Now we know who inflicts our wounds We are conscious and we are united Our hour has sounded and we are marching Victory is in the palm of our hand change its hostels, this was issue.

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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 19 January 197B paget2