Workers in Egypt strikes call for a labor revolution

Egypt's largest textile manufacturer, Misr Spinning and Weaving, is totally shut down this week as 23,000 workers have been on strike since the weekend, demanding higher pay and an increase in shares of the company profits. Thousands more have joined the strikes as protests and violence have spread through Egypt for a fourth day.

Tear gas was used against striking ceramic workers in Suez Wednesday evening, and between 3,000 and 4,000 workers staged a sit-in at the textile factory in the northern city Mahalla during the day, expecting a delegation of negotiators from newly elected President Morsi, but none came.

It doesn't seem as though there are any signs of workers heading back to work, according to labor leaders like Hamdy Hussein, who told Reuters that other left-wing groups