This article is based on a contribution to the online teach-out “Solidarity with the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran” organised by Cambridge UCU, Cambridge University Students Union, Cambridgeshire NEU, Cambridge and District TUC and MENA Solidarity Network on 7 December. Watch a video and read another article from the teach-out here By Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani,…
ترجمه فارسی در زیر آمده است On 7 December 2022, Peyman Jafari, a historian of Iran’s labour movement, spoke at an online teach-out in solidarity with the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising in Iran organised by Cambridge UCU, Cambridgeshire NEU, Cambridge University Student Union, Cambridge and District TUC and MENA Solidarity.* Today is the third of…
Mass protests and strikes once again swept Iran in the week of 5 December. Middle East Solidarity interviewed women’s rights activist Parinaz Partow and social activist and former political prisoner Haydeh Ravesh about the uprising which developed after demonstrations escalated nationwide in the wake of the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jina Amini…
Wednesday 7 December – 4-5.30pm (Speakers’ contributions and discussion 4-5pm, planning practical action in solidarity 5-5.30pm) Join this online event to learn more about what trade unionists and student activists can do to build international solidarity for the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. Since the security forces killed Mahsa Jina Amini, a young Kurdish…
Sudanese teachers are fighting for investment in schools so that all children can access education for free, to reform the curriculum after decades of dictatorship, and for decent pay and working conditions for educators. The strike is being organised by the Sudanese Teachers’ Committee. They have created ‘escalation committees’ and ‘strike committees’ in provinces across…
Trade unionists and revolutionary activists in Sudan and Britain exchanged messages of solidarity, pledging support for each others’ struggles at a conference organised by a wide range of unions from both countries on 6 November. The hybrid event brought together around 30 participants in person in London, with around 100 more viewers online. A full…
In response to the UN COP27 climate talks in Egypt 7-18 November we are publishing a series of articles previewing a special feature in the next issue of Middle East Solidarity on the struggles for climate justice and democracy.>> Get active, go to https://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/cop27toolkit/ – take action for political prisoners in Egypt, including British-Egyptian activist…
In response to the UN COP27 climate talks in Egypt 7-18 November we are publishing a series of articles previewing a special feature in the next issue of Middle East Solidarity on the struggles for climate justice and democracy. >> Get active, go to https://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/cop27toolkit/ In our first interview, we talk to Mohammed Siddig, a…
مؤتمر التضامن مع الثورة السودانية: 6 نوفمبر (الحرية, السلام, العدالة) المؤتمر مُترجم من العربية إلى الإنجليزية و بالعكس سوف يجمع هذا المؤتمر النقابيين و الفاعلين من السودان وبريطانيا بغرض تبادل الخبرات وبناء التضامن مع النضالات من أجل العدالة الإجتماعية وضد القمع السياسي والهجوم على حقوق العمال في البلدين، و سوف ينعقد بعد مرور عام على…
For nearly four years, ordinary people in Sudan have been engaged in a remarkable struggle to overthrow military dictatorship and extend democracy. They have built popular revolutionary organisations in neighbourhoods and workplaces and started reorganising independent trade unions and workers’ committees to win social justice in the midst of huge attacks on their living standards.…
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