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…
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…
Translation of joint statement calling for protests to mark May Day 2013 (picture of May Day protest 2012 by Gigi Ibrahim via Flickr) Workers have been coming out every day for years to demand their rights from the businessmen who were protected by Mubarak’s government in the past and now by Morsi. We have the…
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…
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…
by Anna Livingstone and Kambiz Boomla One of the most moving moments during our visit to the World Social Forum in Tunis was to see the protest of mothers and families of the martyrs of Kasserine, wailing with grief as they held the pictures of their massacred relatives, and asked for justice for the wounded…
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…
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…
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…
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…
MENA Solidarity Network 