CGHR is pleased to host the launch of two new books: Egypt’s Long Revolution by Maha Abdelrahman, and Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: workers and the Egyptian Revolution by Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny. The former analyses new forms of political mobilisation that arose in response to ever-increasing grievances against authoritarian politics, deteriorating living conditions for the majority of Egyptians as a consequence of neo-liberal policies and the machinery of crony capitalism, and an almost total abandoning by the state of its responsibilities to society at large. The latter explores collective action by organised workers played a fundamental role in the Egyptian revolution, which erupted after years of strikes and social protests. It also explores the destabilising impact of workers’ mobilisations on the military and Islamist regimes since 2011, including the contradictory political effects of social protests during the crisis which engulfed Mohamed Morsi’s presidency in 2012-2013.