Nineteen trade union, professional, civil society and human rights organisations have issued a joint statement expressing solidarity with Sudanese workers, teachers and university academics, rejecting mass dismissals and attacks on trade union rights, and calling for justice, dignity and freedom. Read the full statement.
MENA Solidarity is pleased to renew its partnership with Yung Kha Publicity to promote *Life Support*, a powerful new documentary by Daniele Rugo. The film bears witness to the genocide in Gaza through the testimonies of doctors who worked on the ground between 2023 and 2025.
Through their accounts, *Life Support* exposes the systematic destruction of healthcare and civilian infrastructure, and the devastating human cost of these ongoing crimes.
Read more about the film and book your tickets.
The US–Israeli assault on Iran is not about “security”. It is about power, resources and geopolitical domination. The lie of “nuclear threat” is a pretext by both criminal regimes, just as the lie of “weapons of mass destruction” was used to destroy Iraq and kill over a million people.
Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed by Iranian security forces as they try to repress what is fast becoming a generalised uprising against the Islamic Republic’s leadership. Independent trade unions including the bus workers’ union in Tehran are warning that workers need to have independent organisation which is not linked to foreign…
Over 350 trade unionists from across the UK and beyond have signed a statement expressing solidarity with British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a wave of attacks led by Tory and Reform politicians greeted his arrival in the UK after years as a political prisoner in Egypt. The statement highlights Alaa’s rejection of antisemitism, racism…
Statement in solidarity with Alaa Abd el-Fattah We affirm our solidarity with Alaa Abd el-Fattah and extend a warm welcome to him as he is reunited with his family in Britain after spending years unjustly incarcerated alongside thousands of other political prisoners in the jails of a dictatorship for speaking out against human rights abuses.…
Trade unionists from the SI COBAS union are leading a campaign to defend Mohamed Shahin, imam of a mosque in Turin and an outspoken campaigner for Palestine in the city. Shahin was seized by the Italian police on 25 November and told his long-term residence permit was being revoked and that he faces deportation to…
Over 20,000 people have backed a petition initiated by a group of workers at Italian arms manufacturer Leonardo’s Grottaglie factory demanding the weapons maker sever all ties with Israel. “With this petition, which starts from some of Leonardo’s workers and which is extended to the entire civilian population, we firmly refuse to be complicit in…
Wednesday 26 November, 7:30pm UK time Register here in advance of this Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bPol0JitQRSUqqd5zC3nPQ The so-called “peace plan” endorsed by the UN Security Council is a new colonial blueprint against the Palestinian people: a plan to freeze the genocide in place, disarm the resistance, and entrench Western-Zionist domination while violations continue unabated. Across Europe,…
Italian trade unionists and student activists were attacked and detained by the police in Naples on Saturday, in a bid to crack down on protests and blockades as the far-right Brothers of Italy is presenting new repressive laws in parliament, activists from SI Cobas union have told Middle East Solidarity. The arrests of Mimi and…