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the appointment of the Salem government, Sadat accelerated the destruction of those institutions of Nasserism which gave some protection to the poor and middle peasants, gave some control over industrial activity to the state, and gave some protection to native capital.

Desperate

The champion of new laws which meant higher rents for the peasantry, payment partly in kind (protecting the landowner from inflation), easier eviction of tenants by landowners, and the end of peasant courts, was one Abu Wafia.

Abu Wafia was a big landowner, president of the People's Assembly commission in charge of the 'Open Door' policy... and Sadat's brother-in-law.

The Salem government was much more openly than ever before a government of big capitalists. The Housing Minister of this nation with such a desperale cousing need was Ahmac Osman. *here: the arrasers Company =..: Sata: 5=00--4 abuse Rober utions which served as tre apparatus of coordinator and control in the context of Egypt's economic plan. transforming at the same time the administrative councils of public sector companies by including 'experts' from the private sector.

Hindrances

Finance Minister Ahmed Abu Ismael, the Norman Tebbit of the Salem government, spelled it out:

'The government is set on the open-door policy.

One of the first priorities has been to dissolve public institutions and give individual economic units complete freedom to reform their administration and remove all obstacles and hindrances to the realisation of this objective. Any unit failing to achieve these ends will be regarded as a burden and liquidated" Egyptian pounds yearly, some 35 million Egyptian pounds was spent on imported private cars between Hock:

The longer Sadat followed US imperialism, the deeper Egypt ran into debt. Today Egypt is wholly in hock.

But imperialism has not sucked it dry. It will continue to prop up any pro-imperialist regime, as against the alternative of a pro-Kremlin orientation or - of course - a revolutionary socialist transformation. THE LACK of any big werking class upsurge since Sadat's assassination seems to confirm that his killers were from the Muslim Right and they - not the Left - are the rising force in Egypt.

Sadat himself was largely responsible for fostering the Muslim Right.

The Muslim Brotherhood has a long history. Sadat was the link-man between the Brotherhood and the Free Officers who made the revolution of 1952.

In 1971, Sadat and Gaddafi [then in alliancel created the al-Jama'a al-Shar'iyya association. This was a Muslim youth movement specifically organised to combat leftists on the campuses and in the factories.

The move was quite successful, but after the sadatGaddafi split the association was ditched by Sadat. Out of it came several underground organisations that grow more hostile to Sadat the more he went grovelling for the favours of US imperialism.

The Muslim rightist movements combine fundamentalism with populist anti-imperialist rhetoric and agitation against corruption and immorality.

The dominant trend in the Muslim Right is the Mustim Brotherhood. is divided inte several trends, some generally supporting Sadat on the grounds that his regime, they think, was moving te establish rule by Islamic law, and others openly hostile to him.

Sadat for his part always tried to enlist their support against the working class movement, student radicalism, the political left and the peasantry.

He was prepared to fuel anti-Coptic pogroms order to divert the class

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