Israeli forces have closed down a leading Palestinian health organisation, the Health Work Committees (HWC), detaining the HWC Director, Shatha Odeh in a military prison and putting her health at risk by delaying access to her medication. Shatha Odeh is a trained nurse and is currently the director of HWC, which serves thousands of Palestinians…
By Gianni Del Panta Over the last years, the Italian ports have seen the development of a long series of protests and strikes against the passage and loading of ships carrying military equipment. In Genoa the CALP (Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali – Dockworkers’ Autonomous Collective) has repeatedly struggled against Saudi ships filled with weapons and…
As his personal exhibition, ‘Tears that taste of the sea’ opens at the October Gallery in London, Algerian artist Rachid Koraïchi tells Almaas Yahye and Julie Henri about his project in Zarsis, Tunisia, a memorial garden commemorating the lives of people who drowned trying to cross the sea to Europe and how his work reflects…
Issue 16 – The art of resistance from the river to the sea available from June 2021 Middle East Solidarity magazine is now available to download. During the Covid-19 crisis we are suspending our print publications temporarily, but you can help support our work by making a donation for your copy below. Click to take…
The Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH) reported on 25 May a serious escalation in the repression and violence facing the opposition to the Algerian regime. A few days before the parliamentary elections on 12 June which are supposed to bring about a ‘New Algeria’, the regime is resorting to all-out repression…
Two massive demonstrations brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of London in solidarity with Palestine on 15 and 22 May, and up and down the country thousands more joined protests and rallies demanding and end to Israeli military attacks, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Meanwhile on 18 May, a general strike showed the power of…
By Miriam Scharf Under pressure from pro-Israeli organisations, a major educational publisher carried out an extensive revision of two GCSE History textbooks which inserted “major distortions” on questions such as the illegality of settlements under international law, according to a leading academic. Professor John Chalcraft co-authored a detailed report comparing the content of the two…
Francesco De Lellis, Gianni Del Panta, and Mattia Giampaolo report on the battle by workers in Egypt to save the Helwan Iron and Steel Company from liquidation Workers at the Iron and Steel Company of Helwan, on the southern fringes of Greater Cairo, spent the tenth anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution staging a massive…
The revolution in Sudan got rid of dictator Omar El Bashir, but workers are still fighting for basic rights to organise. Activists from Sudan Labour Bulletin are on the frontline of mobilising solidarity with their struggles for dignity. They spoke to Anne Alexander for this interview. This article is from the new issue of Middle…
In October 2019, a massive popular uprising shook Lebanon, triggered by rage at the corrupt elite’s attempts to make ordinary people pay for the economic crisis. We asked university lecturer and trade union organiser Rima Majed what are the prospects for collective resistance, a year after the people shook the neoliberal sectarian regime. This article…
