By these measures however Nasser ensured the victories of Imperialism and the regime of Sadat which followed.
By crushing the working class and peasant organisations and leaders. Nasser struck at the most consistent anti-imperialist torce in the country the only ones prepared to carry / through the struggle to the end. By weakening those classes he prepared dismantling of the anti-imperialist gains which had been made Nasser's acceptance of the Rogers Plan in July 1970 was followed by the opening up of Egypt to wave denationalisations. The World Bank, in to decide compensation.
Minns also says, as he has done elsewhere that profit is ideological. ideology of maximum does • not product the return' he says on page but the returns don't half help produce the ideology Twenty pe cent profit on a hundred pounds is two red notes and five per CENT IS TYC green ones, and if you are offered a choice betweet the two, your decision will depend not on 'ideology but plain old boring greed I can see them now: the city gents driving ideoloRical mansions Surbiton in their reseizure of land by Finally Israel was recognised Camp David. All this was prepared through the repression of the Egyptian working class and peasants.
Support The correct attitude for revolutionaries was to support Nasser's imperialist measures No matter his repression against the working class, when Nasser Toughi Isracl in 956 and 1967 every sing) revolutionary had to sup nort Eevot The 3I25SSE nationalisations of 1961 totally appplauded - and far more Nasser nationalisations demanded.
But support for these in the framework understanding that on the most fundamental tions Nasserism would not Abovi all it served imperialism" interests in attacking and repressing the Egyptiar peasants. wile particular working mcasures had to be en thusiastically supported and defended against imperialism, revolutionaries had to oppose the regime as a whole Next week we will look at Khomeni's Iran