Egypt’s pro-democracy uprising is surging with the addition of striking workers nationwide. Thousands of Egyptian workers walked off the job Wednesday demanding better wages and benefits. Strikes were reported in Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor and the Suez Canal. Some 3,000 lawyers and 1,000 doctors marched in separate groups today before joining the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Hundreds of people remain camped out in front of the Egyptian parliament after bringing the protests there for the first time this week. Four people have been killed and many more wounded in a crackdown on a protest in the western province of New Valley. It was the first sizable pro-democracy demonstration reported in the area since the uprising began.