Dr Mahmoud al-Farhan worked in the Accident and Emergency department at Salmaniyya Hospital in Bahrain. He fled Bahrain in the wake of the brutal crackdown against protesters in 2011, having seen dozens of his colleagues arrested and sentenced to long jail terms. He witnessed the storming of Salmaniyya Hospital by the riot police and army […]
May 5, 2013
Pictures by Geoff Brown النقابيين من مانشتر في بريطانيا يرسلون التضامن إلى اللجنة النقابية وعمال إيديال ستاندرد في مصر وقال جويف برون من اتحاد النقابات في المدينة “عندما سمعنا عن النضال زملاءنا في إيديال ستاندرد ضد الفصل التعسفي ومن أجل الحريات النقابية قررنا عن نرسل رسالة احتجاجية للشركة وسوف نبلغ أعضاء النقابات في مانشتر عن […]
May 4, 2013
Hind Abdel Gawad, a trade unionist and revolutionary activist from Zagazig in Sharqiyya province, Egypt, talks about the challenges facing the workers’ movement in Egypt in a video message for Manchester TUC’s May Day rally, 4 May 2013. Hind, who played a leading role in strikes by Information Centre workers before the revolution, visited London […]
April 29, 2013
Workers at the bathroom units factory in Tenth Ramadan City near Zagazig in Sharqiyya Governorate have been occupying their factory since March 2013 in protest at the dismissal of their trade union committee. Gangs of thugs accompanied by some of the company foremen attacked the sit-in on 21 April. Conditions in the factory are very […]
April 26, 2013
A national strike by Tunisian teachers in elementary schools on 24 April was solidly supported, according to the Secondary School Teachers’ Union’s Facebook page: 22 out of 24 provinces reported 80% or more teachers taking part in the strike. Thousands of teachers walked out in the second day of action this month in protest at […]
April 15, 2013
By Maggie Falshaw [Update: 19 April - solidarity message from UCU members at Westminster Kingsway college] School teachers in Tunis are planning one day strikes in secondary and primary schools on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 25th April respectively. The strikers’ demands are for a pay increase, as rampant inflation has considerably lowered the value of […]
April 12, 2013
أصدر قادة عمال السكك الحديدية والنقل البحري والمواصلات بالأمس بيانا هاجموا فيه تعامل الجيش مع إضراب سائقي القطارات في مصر. فقد تم إرسال خطابات تكليف لسائقي القطارات للعمل في القوات المسلحة. يمكنكم النقر هنا لمعرفة ما يمكنكم عمله للتضامن مع عمال السكك الحديدية المصرية. بيان بشأن إضراب سائقي القطارات في مصر: ندين نحن الموقعين […]
April 12, 2013
Striking Egyptian train drivers explain their demands and the repression they faced from the army during their strike. The opening title says: “7 April 2013 – train drivers began a national strike for the first time since 1986 in order to win the following demands: 1. Bonus payment 2. Meal allowance payment 3. Increase in […]
April 11, 2013
In a statement released today, railworkers’ union leaders in the UK hit out at the Egyptian army’s intervention in the train drivers’ strike. Striking drivers were issued letters telling them that they had been conscripted into the armed forces. Read more here about what you can do in solidarity. Statement on the Egyptian railworkers’ strike […]
April 10, 2013
Picture: trade unionists and activists protest in Cairo in solidarity with the rail workers, 10 April (via revsoc.me) Stop the militarisation of the railway! Stop terrorising the train drivers! Joint statement 10 April 2013 (original Arabic here) For the first time, the armed forces have blatantly intervened to break the train drivers’ strike – not […]
May 15, 2013
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