As 2025 draws to a close — and we prepare to step into 2026 — we at MENA Solidarity Network write to you in solidarity, gratitude and revolutionary resolve. Below is a roundup of the key articles we published since 1 January 2025 — a record of struggle, resistance and international working-class solidarity across the Middle East and beyond. These reports, analyses and actions map out the terrain of resistance — from war zones and imperialist supply-chains to workers’ solidarity across borders.
Share widely, reflect, organise — and let 2026 be a year of deeper solidarity, renewed struggle, and internationalist victory.
2025 at a Glance: Key Campaigns, Reports & Struggles (so far)
• A New Dawn for Syria: The Fall of the Assad Regime — 4 Jan 2025
A powerful analysis of Syria’s political transition: the new administration’s attempts at “settlement centres” for regime officers, and the danger that one ruling elite may simply replace another — unless workers are organised and represented.
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• Salma al-Shehab — sentence reduced and release secured, but injustice remains — 31 Jan 2025
A response to the Saudi court’s decision to slash Salma’s original 27-year sentence, followed shortly by her release. While her freedom is a victory shaped by sustained international pressure and solidarity, her case remains a stark reminder of the routine repression faced by women, academics and activists in Saudi Arabia.
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• Sudanese women and allies march in London to demand end to war and violence against women — 9 Feb 2025
A report on the silent march from Parliament Square to 10 Downing Street — a moving testament to women’s leadership in the struggle against war and militarised patriarchy.
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• New Syrian workers’ committees launch coordinated protests at mass sackings of government employees — 15 Feb 2025
Syrian workers organised to resist mass layoffs and demand accountability, showing the continuing strength of grassroots labour organising under oppressive conditions.
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• Exposing the Sudanese Embassy’s whitewashing of war crimes — 28 Feb 2025
Our response to the Embassy’s cynical apology for army atrocities — defending truth against state propaganda and revisionism.
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• Statement: No war on Iran – Stop the genocide in Gaza – Stop arming Israel — 2025
A collective statement denouncing imperialist wars, the Gaza genocide, and the complicity of arms suppliers, calling for international solidarity and resistance.
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• Collective statement from independent Iranian trade unions on war, genocide and imperialism — 22 Jun 2025
A powerful declaration by Iranian trade unions denouncing warmongering, genocide and imperialism — and affirming workers’ internationalist duties.
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• Piraeus Port Workers’ Unions stand with Palestine — “No participation in war crimes” — 10 Jul 2025
Dockworkers in Greece refuse to handle military shipments to Israel — exposing genocide, ethnic cleansing and starvation as crimes in which workers must refuse complicity.
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• Report: Sudan pamphlet launch at the Marxism Festival 2025 — 14 Jul 2025
A summary of our pamphlet launch — renewing debates on the Sudanese revolution, unions, women’s struggles and international solidarity.
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• MENA Solidarity at Tolpuddle supporting Greek dockers blocking Israeli arms — 22 Jul 2025
Coverage of our solidarity action at Tolpuddle, joining the international working-class campaign against Israel’s military supply chain.
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• Mass blockade in Piraeus port hits Israel’s military supply chain (plus solidarity from Sudanese dockers) — 18 Jul 2025
A mass blockade stopping weapons transshipment to Israel — a vivid example of international worker-to-worker solidarity.
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• “Sudan’s Militia War and the Battle for Truth” — new interview series — 26 Jul 2025
A deep dive into the war in Sudan, media distortions, and the April 11 RSF attack on ZamZam camp — exposing both SAF and RSF as instruments of class violence.
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• Confronting Arab regimes’ complicity in genocide, war crimes and starvation in Gaza — 13 Aug 2025
An interview exposing the complicity of regional governments in Gaza’s humanitarian crisis — and the power of grassroots solidarity to fight back.
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• El Fasher Falls — What It Tells Us About Sudan’s War, the Revolution, and the Fight for Solidarity — 4 Nov 2025
A devastating account of the fall of El Fasher after an 18-month siege — exposing the war as a counter-revolution against ordinary people.
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• Abo Bakr Mansour Mohamed Hamza — the lawyer who dared to help in Sudan’s war — 19 Nov 2025
A call for Abo Bakr’s release from unjust imprisonment — a reminder of the courage of those who resist under war and repression.
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• Campaign of Italian arms workers at Leonardo S.p.A. demands end of collaboration with Israel — 22 Nov 2025
Workers at Leonardo reject being part of genocide and state violence — a powerful example of labour’s refusal to serve the war machine.
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• “Vengeance of the state”: Italian trade unionists mobilise over threat to deport Egyptian activist — 29 Nov 2025
A solidarity mobilisation confronting the criminalisation of dissent and repression of migrants.
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• Sudan Solidarity Conference 2026 — 28 Nov 2025
Announcement and report of the upcoming conference — a space for grassroots, revolutionary organising and international solidarity.
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• Italian organisers beaten and detained by police for protest against Israeli pharma company — 27 Oct 2025
Coverage of repression against activists challenging complicity in Israel’s corporate-military interests.
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• Cartoons Are Not a Crime — Free Ashraf Omar, Stop Egypt’s Repression — 28 Dec 2025
A campaign defending free expression and challenging state repression against Egyptian activists.
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• Statement: Solidarity with Alaa Abd El-Fattah — 29 Dec 2025
A statement of solidarity with the Egyptian activist, calling for his release and condemning the repression of dissent.
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What It All Means — Our Revolutionary Perspective
When we look at struggles across borders — from Palestine and Sudan to Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and beyond — it becomes evident that the most vulnerable are always the ones targeted. Imperialist powers, including the United Kingdom, exploit and suppress working people at home while waging and fuelling wars, looting wealth, installing and overthrowing governments, and propping up authoritarian regimes abroad. This is how global capitalism works: profit and control built on the suffering and blood of the many — us.
But real power doesn’t belong to, or come from, these morally and politically corrupt elites — they are criminals. Real power comes from us — workers, women, migrants, disabled, LGBTQ+ people, students, pensioners, refugees, and activists organising together from below, across continents. When we unite, bring our forces together, share our experiences, and coordinate action, we challenge the systems that try to divide and dominate us. It’s in this unity and solidarity — rooted in collective and coordinated struggle — that real change begins, and the foundations of a just, liberated world take shape.
What We Must Do in 2026
As we head into the new year, we must deepen our commitment to:
- Building solidarity networks linking workers and oppressed communities across regions.
- Exposing and refusing complicity in war economies — from arms manufacturing to supply-chain logistics.
- Amplifying the voices and resistance of women, migrants, refugees, and youth fighting repression and exploitation.
- Organising internationally — not as isolated campaigns, but as a unified movement against imperialism, capitalism and state violence.
The coming year demands we move beyond awareness to action: trade-union mobilisation, protest, boycott, international coordination — so that the blood, tears, and hope of so many do not go wasted.
With deep appreciation and respect for the sacrifices of our comrades across the world, on behalf of everyone at MENA Solidarity Network: sincere revolutionary greetings — and warmest wishes for a just, liberated, and militant 2026. May it bring us closer to a world where dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity are not just slogans — but living realities.
In solidarity,
MENA Solidarity Network
MENA Solidarity Network 