We have to understand that what is happening in Egypt is part of the agenda of multinational corporate power to impose control over the Muslim world through neoliberal economic reforms.
The revolution began in opposition to these reforms, originating in labor strikes, protests against the privatization of water utilities, and bread strikes.
The neoliberal process has accelerated since the military coup, as Egypt’s debt has increased by over 50% in a matter of months. The regime is pushing through legal measures drafted by investors. Publicly owned assets are being sold off (or destroyed) to make room for multinationals. ..
In order to pursue these reforms most efficiently, the ideal situation in Egypt for the Multinationals is chaos, in-fighting, popular division, political polarization, and terrorism.
The ideal situation for the resistance is to unite upon a set of clear socioeconomic demands, not anti-coup, not anti-government, but pro-worker, pro-poor, pro-farmer, etc. Issues that all factions can accept and support, and which have nothing to do with party politics or power-seeking. Select 5 or 6 issues, like subsidies, minimum wage, taxes, and alternatives to privatization; even re-nationalization of some services and utilities, along with providing worker skills training etc.
This should be the main public stance of the organized parties and groups. All the calls for democratic legitimacy and so forth should stop.
Criticism of Sisi should not be more than to dismiss him as a figurehead employed by the multinationals. We should say that we know perfectly well that Sisi has no power to accommodate our demands, because if he does, he will be replaced by someone else who will be more loyal to the corporations.
We should state explicitly, clearly, that we recognize that there is no democracy in Egypt, and that there cannot be democracy in Egypt as long as the control over the economy is not in the hand of an elected state.
We should say that we are not going to be fooled by any superficial democratic processes which leave the economy in the hands of private power.