A delegation of activists from MENA Solidarity Network will take part in the World Social Forum in Tunis between 26-30 March. We will be joining thousands of activists from Tunisia and around the world for the event, in order to share our experiences of organising solidarity with the Arab revolutions and in particular to learn…
Around fifty doctors and medical students at the March seminar of the Medical Practitioners Union section of UNITE expressed support for imprisoned Bahraini medics and health workers. Holding up signs with the names of seven medics and health workers who were jailed and tortured during the crackdown which followed the 2011 uprising, they pledged their…
Picture: George Constantinides from http://www.biom-metal.blogspot.gr Read the English here وصلنا هذه الرسالة من حملة التضامن مع عمال “فيومي” في يونان رداً على الرسالة من عمال قوطة للصلب. الزملاء الأعزاء، يسعدني أن أقدم لكم نفسي، أنا تيو من مبادرة سالونيكي للتضامن مع نضال عمال “فيومي”. لقد أوصلت رسالتكم لنقابة عمال “فيومي” وقد أعربوا عن رغبتهم الأكيدة…
الترجمة العربية للرسالة هنا Workers at the Kouta Steel plant in Egypt have occupied their factory and begun production under workers’ control – read the message they sent to Vio.Me steel workers in Greece who have taken the same steps recently. This is the reply we received from the Vio.Me workers. Dear Friends, This is…
By Bassem Chit, Beirut Monday 25 February 2013 The Lebanese Trade Union Coordination Committee (TUCC) is still continuing its open strike for the seventh day, Public sector employees, public schools teachers, and private school teachers have been on strike since last Tuesday 19/2/2013. Sit-ins and protests are being held on a daily basis infront of…
English here لقد تابعنا نحن عمال مصنع قوطة للصلب بمدينة العاشر من رمضان في جمهورية مصر العربية ما يحدث في مصنع فيومي (Vio.Me) للمعادن في مدينه ثيسالونيكي في اليونان وهروب صاحب المصنع وما تبعه من قرار الجمعية العمومية للعمال بالتسير الذاتي للمصنع وتشكيل ما يسمى ب (تعاونية إنتاجية) تحت إدارة العمال وما تبع ذلك من…
Message of Solidarity From the workers of Kouta Steel Factory in Egypt To the workers of Vio.Me Industrial Minerals Factory in Greece! We, the workers of Kouta Steel Factory, Tenth of Ramadan City, Egypt, have followed the events taking place in Vio.Me industrial minerals factory in Thessaloniki, Greece. We learned that the factory owner had…
From the Bahraini Australian Youth Movement Bahraini nurse calls on international support after police kill 16 yr old during crackdown on anniversary of democracy protests Hussain Al Jaziri, 16 years old, was killed by Bahraini security forces yesterday as the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters intensifies around the second anniversary of Bahrain’s ‘forgotten Arab Spring’.Rula al…
Workers’ leaders headed a march of thousands from Shubra in northern Cairo towards Tahrir Square as part of protests marking the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on 25 January. The demonstration, which was one of several marches which converged on Tahrir, focussed on the revolution’s unmet demands for social justice. Revolutionary Socialist activist and…
A nation-wide strike by secondary school teachers emptied classrooms across Tunisia on 22 and 23 January. Lasad Yacoubi, General Secretary of the General Union of Secondary School Teachers said on Friday “our key differences with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Youth and Sport are over our main demands over our conditions at…
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