Hassan Jumaa Awad, president of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, is facing up to 3 years in prison for organising strikes at the Southern Oil Company in Basra. An Iraqi court is now set to hear the case on 19 May, after previous hearings have been postponed multiple times because the oil company’s lawyers […]
March 24, 2013
Blacklisted construction workers and their union leaders are the latest to show solidarity with Bahraini healthworkers imprisoned in the clampdown after the 2011 uprising. At the Blacklist Support Group AGM on 23 March, union activists took time out from discussions of their own campaign against vicitimisations and sackings by multinational construction companies to send a […]
March 13, 2013
Healthworkers at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, voted today to back our campaign in solidarity with their Bahraini colleagues. At UCLH UNISON’s annual general meeting, delegates voted overwhelming to back the resolution below and sent a picture message of solidarity to jailed nurses Ibrahim al-Demistani, Hassan […]
March 4, 2013
Around fifty doctors and medical students at the March seminar of the Medical Practitioners Union section of UNITE expressed support for imprisoned Bahraini medics and health workers. Holding up signs with the names of seven medics and health workers who were jailed and tortured during the crackdown which followed the 2011 uprising, they pledged their […]
December 10, 2012
Statement from United Left in Unite the Union 8 December 2012 عربي We declare our solidarity with our. Egyptian brothers and sisters who are fighting to defend the freedoms they won in the 25 January Revolution. We strongly condemn the attacks on peaceful protesters opposing the draft Constitution, and the assault by the Egyptian government […]
December 5, 2012
شارك النقابيين البريطانيين بوقفة احتجاجية أمام السفارة المصرية 1 ديسمبر التي نظمتها النشطاء المصرين لتعبير عن رفضهم للدستور الذي تم إعلانه منذ قليل Trade unionists from the UK joined a demonstration at the Egyptian embassy on Saturday 1 December, which was called by Egyptian activists to protest against the draft constitution announced a few days […]
November 19, 2012
Click here for the English version of this statement “Trade Unionists’ declaration on Palestine and the Arab Revolutions“ ندين الإعتداء الإسرائيلي الأخير على غزة الذي قتل حتى الآن أكثر من 20 شخصاً وجرح المئات. ليس هناك أي مقارنة بين قوة النيران للقوات الإسرائيلية و مقاومة الفلسطينيين ضد إحتلال مجرم وحصار. قتلت حرب إسرائيل على غزة […]
November 18, 2012
*Updated with new signatures 20 November We condemn the latest Israeli assault on Gaza, which at the time of writing has killed more than twenty and injured hundreds. There is no comparison between Israeli forces’ enormous firepower and Palestinians’ resistance to an illegal occupation and siege. Israel’s ‘Operation Cast Lead’ against Gaza in 2008-9 killed […]
November 14, 2012
To download this article as a leaflet click here Since the revolution of 2011 nearly 1000 independent trade unions have been created in Egypt. Under the old regime, the sole legal trade union was the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), which was controlled by the state. The independent unions have been at the heart of […]
October 21, 2012
Mahdi Abu Deeb, president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association was sentenced to 5 years in prison on 21 October, while BTA vice-president Jalila al-Salman faces a jail term of six months. They were arrested for supporting protests and strikes in February 2011 calling for democratic reform in Bahrain, and tortured into confessions. Amnesty International called […]
May 7, 2013
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