During the last two years Egypt has been shaken by a series of powerful strikes and labor actions which have invigorated the workers’ movement. The “prime movers” and heart of this process are the workers at the Ghazl al-Mahalla spinning and weaving factory in the city of Mahalla al-Kubra. They have turned a defensive conflict for local, “economic” demands into a broad syndical struggle for a national minimum wage and an independent and autonomous union, challenging state power itself. The different factions of the multifaceted political opposition have tried to connect to the workers’ movement in symbolic and/or organizational ways, attempting to translate its prestige and momentum into political gains of their own. In this paper I will explore how the Muslim Brothers, as one of the largest and best organized groups, relate to the Ghazl al-Mahalla movement. Do they support the concrete demands of the movement, e.g. the petition for an independent and autonomous union? What is their current perspective on autonomous workers’ actions and social conflict, and does it differ from their historically corporatist outlook? Have the Muslim Brothers formally intervened in the movement, and if so, was this a conscious strategy of the whole organization, of specific branches, or a mere individual decision? How are their syndical interventions perceived by the Mahalla activists? Evidence is drawn from interviews with both Muslim Brothers and Mahalla militants, and from textual sources such as journals, pamphlets, blogs, and websites.