Egyptian revolutionary Mohamed Atef sent this report to Counterfire late last night.
Since Sunday and right up to the current moment a street war is going on in all the streets leading to Tahrir Square.
The youth are now chanting against the military and the main political parties. They say that parties have betrayed the revolution for the sake of a seat in the parliament, for which elections are due to begin this week.
The cabinet has resigned less than 5 hours ago. But the government, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has so far refused to accept the resignation. On the other hand, SCAF has issued an invitation for all political parties and representatives of the social movements to meet with it tomorrow, but none of the movements or parties have replied.
What is going on now is not only in Tahrir Square. Alexandria is burning and live ammunition is being used around the Alexandria Police Headquarters. There is a very serious situation in Suez and the youth of the revolution have again begun to organize public committees.
The few coming hours hold the real third wave of the Egyptian revolution. Egypt now has one demand – just as there was one demand during the first days of the revolution: People Demand Removal Of SCAF, People Demand Removal of the Field Marshal.
The movement began last Friday with the huge demonstration against a document issued by the deputy prime minister, which contained proposals to put the military beyond the control of the new constitution.
The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists were the majority in this demonstration, but they were joined by many political movements because the political parties had asked only for a few amendments commenting on the document.
By the end of the day all the organizations had withdrawn from Tahrir, leaving only 200 people, most of them families of martyrs and injured victims of the revolution. They decided to start an open sit-in mainly demanding a time schedule by the military to step down from power in Egypt.
On Saturday many youth movements decided to join the sit-in. Security forces and Military Police attempted to evacuate the Square, which led to causalities among the protesters – 24 martyrs and 1300 injured youth, including children and women, according to Ministry Of Health estimates. The reason of death for martyrs was reported as asphyxia due to inhaling the new variant of CS gas being used by the army.
