If revolutionaries in Egypt fail to reorient the movement to focus on the issues and policies that matter to the population, and instead fall into the diverting chaos of party conflicts and power grabs, and if those conflicts are fought violently; in many ways, the future of Egypt looks very much like Yemen’s present
Yemen, prior to the Arab Spring, already looked like the Egypt being planned today by neoliberals for the majority of the population. The same forces backing Sisi’s counter-revolution in Egypt are obliterating the Yemeni youth revolution by mutating the struggle from a socioeconomic movement into bloody sectarian strife, to ensure that the humanitarian catastrophe created by neoliberalism over the past 20 years will continue.