Revolutions happen when an oppressed group bands together to protest and overthrow the established power within a nation or state.
This is exactly what is happening in Egypt as we speak.
The people are tired of corruption within their government. They have been enduring high unemployment rates, poverty and inflation as a result of the choices of the Mubarak government- a non-democratic political leader.
Ever since the 1950s Egypt has been ruled by 'dictatorial' leaders. The country has been under emergency law since the 1960s. Emergency law allows the government to take extreme control over the government- censorship and denying freedoms is a large part of this control.
Protests call for the current regime to step down and be replaced with governance system based on democratic principles...
If the government dissolved itself political analysts say that perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood or the Army could take power.
As of right now the government has shut down internet service and mobile phone lines to curb protests. Canadians have been chartered out of the country.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/31/egypt.protests.crackdown/
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/20111311965695371.html
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