Why "riot"?
In Alexandria, five days before the second anniversary of the revolution
the friends and relatives of the martyrs waited for justice to be done
in the retrials of those who had kiiled demonstrators.
The retrials and justice for the martyrs were amongst the most important promises
made by Morsi to the revolution after he won elections.
On January 19, take two:
the accused officers were all acquitted,
acquittals for the assassins and murderers.
For two years now, the regime has been listening and ignoring.
"We won't forget Tahrir you sons of bitches,
for you the revolution was a disaster."
The regime doesn't want retribution or justice to be carried out.
But we will make it happen:
retribution and justice.
This year nobody went out to celebrate the revolution.
Instead we went out to finish what we started in January 2011.
Jika!
High School student,
Murderered by the police,
Shot with bullets
In his eye and head.
Jika!
There's no food.
Muslim Brothers, liars all!
You tricked us in the name of religion!
My son, my darling son...
We came out because we had no other choice
in dealing with a regime that imprisons, tortures and murders our revolution
while honoring and protecting those who oppress, kill and exploit.
Why are prices skyrocketing day after day while our wages stay the same?
"I want bread to eat..."
Why has no offical been held accountable for all the railway accidents?
Why is the army stealing people's land
and killing them in Qursaya and elsewhere?
My brother raised his hands, why did they shoot him?
[The Martyr Muhammad Abd Al-Mawgud's brother] I want to know right now,
how can the president of this country order them to attack the people!
Why are Safwat al-Sherif and Isma'il al-Sha'ir scott-free?
Why do the security forces target children,
lock them up and torture them?
It means that there's no justice under this kind of regime.
People didn't just go out to Tahrir Square.
The provinces were also raging:
Violence breeds violence.
But the regime's violence is not the same as revolutionary violence.
Since the Friday of Rage [January 28th, 2011],
we had to respond to the long years of state violence and repression
with revolutionary counter-violence.
If we hadn't set fire to the police stations and humiliated the Interior Ministry,
there wouldn't have been a revolution in the first place.
The people demand the fall of the Brothers!
We went to the presidential palace to demonstrate
against a new dictator.
-Morsi, Murderer-
You are the new National Democratic party!
Shave your beard, show your true colors,
Your face is the same as Mubarak's!
The people demand the fall of the regime!
We're the youth of January 25!
We've taken to the street and we're not leaving!
And after the regime sent its Brotherhood militias to attack protestors
this was the response of one citizen called Saedeya,
You fight us everywhere and kill us with birdshot and live ammunition.
You maim and kill and in the end you say, 'it wasn't us'?
'It was provocateurs hiding amongst the revolutionaries'?'
They want to ride the wave, and rule us as they please,
and use the Constitution as a fig-leaf?
We're the ones who'll give Morsi orders, he works for us!
We're the ones who put him power, we elected him,
and we'll get rid of him just as easily as we elected him.
The regime is playing with everything at its disposal:
soccer, religion, sex, anything to drive us apart and make them stronger.
Is justice even possible under a regime built on oppression?
We don't just want to depose Morsi,
just like we didn't only want to depose Mubarak.
We don't want their Brothers, or their National Salvation Front
or their regime with its parties, elections and candidates.
We don't want their police or their military.
Change doesn't mean a cabinet shake-up.
Nor is change defined by elections.
Violence is not the aim.
Revolutionary violence confronts a broken justice.