On Saturday 25 June, the verdict was announced in the case against Ali Fattouh, president of the Independent Public Transport Authority Workers’ Union. Ali was found ‘not guilty’ by the court – a clear victory of the union and the workers’ movement as a whole. We received the following statement from his lawyer, Haitham Muhammadain…
قدم وفد من النقابيين البريطانيين بياناً إلى السفارة المصرية بلندن اليوم بتوقيعات 400 نقابيين بينهم سكرتير عام لنقابة موظفي الحكومة مارك سيروتكا وسكرتير عام لنقابة عمال السكك الحديد والنقل والنقل البحري بوب كرو وجريمي دير سكرتير عام لنقابة الصحافيين. وقالت كاتي كلارك نائبة بالبرلمان البريطاني لحزب العمال إن “أنا هنا أمام السفارة المصرية إعتباراً أن…
A delegation of trade unionists representing teachers, transport workers, civil servants and students joined Labour MP Katy Clark today to hand a petition to the Egyptian embassy calling on the Egyptian government to lift th e ban on strikes and protests. Over 400 leading trade unionists from the UK have signed the petition, including Mark…
Translation of report in Arabic by Hisham Fouad. Original here. Update: 19 June. Court finds teacher union activists not guilty of incitement to strike and assaulting a police officer. 13 June Prosecutors in Nasr City, Cairo, ordered the detention of two supply teachers, Atif al-Gazzar, secretary of the Independent Supply Teachers’ Union from Kafr al-Dawwar…
London Transport Region RMT is hosting Kamal Abu Aita, president of the Egyptian tax collectors’ union RETAU and a leading figure in the independent unions on a solidarity visit to the UK. Come to the meeting to hear firsthand about his experiences building resistance under Mubarak, and the role of workers in the Egyptian revolution.…
Solidarity action co-ordinated by Canadian doctors and health workers – Support the doctors’ march to Tahrir Square, 10 June The Egyptian health-care system only receives 3.5 per cent of GDP. Doctors work under state-controlled unions led by corrupt officials with ties to the Mubarak regime, which have prevented them from advocating for better health care…
Dr Hala Kamal, a lecturer in the English Department at Cairo University, and an activist in the 9 March Movement spoke to a lively meeting organised by Education Activist Network at Birkbeck College Student Union on Friday 27 May, alongside Spanish activists involved in the ‘Real Democracy Now’ protests. Here she gives an interview to…
4 June 2011 Translation of report by Ashraf Omar and Haitham Muhammadain (http://www.e-socialists.net/node/6969) The Disciplinary Court of the Presidency of the Republic today reserved judgement in the case against Ali Fattouh, president of the Cairo Independent Public Transport Workers Union, until its session on 25 June. Dozens of workers from the Public Transport Authority attended…
Update: 13.13 31/05/11 – According to Gigi Ibrahim, Hossam and Reem have left the court and have not been charged. You can still add your signature to the statement as part of our on-going campaign against the criminalisation of protest and dissent in Egypt. Background: Journalists Hossam el-Hamalawy, Reem Maged and Nabil Sharaf al-Din…
Doctors marched through the streets of Cairo on Sunday 29 May, demanding the resignation of the Minister of Health, in a protest called to keep the pressure on the government following their national strike on 17 May. The Doctors’ Higher Strike Committee met with representatives of the regional strike committees and issued a statement confirming…
MENA Solidarity Network 