Though the preconditions for resistance, struggle and outbursts are still present. We may even see rural riots, at least as serious as the urban riots of 1977. Certainly, the regime is expecting a high level of resistance. In fact, the regime has scored a complete victory over the peasants, because of the absence of a structure, an organisation of the movement. The peasant movement is really atomised now.
Defeat is only a matter of time.
Some sections of the radical left are too optimistic about these peasant struggles and the solidarity campaign. The absence of a real working class opposition is cruelly felt. The class struggle in this country is not just unclear, it is virtually non-existent. There is nothing more than individual, isolated struggles. When the land law was voted in 1992, neither the Muslim Brothers nor the radical Islamists expressed an opinion.