Sudan’s teachers are on the frontline of a struggle for peace. The war-torn nation has seen its education system crumble, with millions of children out of school and teachers facing immense hardship. The Sudanese Teachers’ Committee has launched a campaign to end the war, calling for solidarity from the international community. Their courageous stand against the devastating war is a beacon of hope for the Sudanese people.
A message of solidarity from Sudanese unions and organisations:
Free Palestine
We express our deep sorrow and outrage at the ongoing acts of oppression and forced displacement on the basis of ethnicity in Palestine. Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison is experiencing an intensified Nakba. The recent attacks on Gaza are war crimes.
By Miriam Scharf Under pressure from pro-Israeli organisations, a major educational publisher carried out an extensive revision of two GCSE History textbooks which inserted “major distortions” on questions such as the illegality of settlements under international law, according to a leading academic. Professor John Chalcraft co-authored a detailed report comparing the content of the two…
Via Bahrain Watch Bahraini NGOS call on UK Home Office to urgently halt deportation of Isa Al-Aali to Bahrain Isa Haidar Al-Aali, 19 years old has been detained by UK immigration authorities for over three months. Isa’s application for asylum has been refused twice and a deportation order was issued last week for immediate deportation…
By David Binns (UCU London Retired Members branch) The Formula 1 Grand Prix gets under way once more on Friday 4th April. As in other recent years, there will be protests opposing the staging of the race in Bahrain, a small country afflicted with a profoundly undemocratic monarchical regime where workers rights to organise are…
Trade unionists and activists from MENA Solidarity joined a protest organised by Egyptian activists in the UK outside the Egyptian embassy in London on Saturday 25 January. Demonstrators chanted against military rule in Egypt and called for the immediate release of political prisoners and an end to repression. Andy Reid from the National Executive of…
London – 6.30pm Egyptian Embassy, 26 South Street, 25 January Facebook event here Berlin – 1pm Herrmannplatz, 25 January Facebook event here Ankara – 3pm, Egyptian Embassy, 25 JanuaryFacebook event here New York City – 1pm, Egyptian Consulate, 25 January Facebook event here Wellington – 1pm Egyptian Embassy, 25 January Facebook event here Toronto –…
Saturday 25 January 2014 marks three years since activists in Egypt set in motion a revolution. Their demands of bread, freedom and social justice remain unfulfilled. We will be joining Egyptian activists in London on a protest at the Egyptian Embassy in solidarity with revolutionaries in Egypt as they take to the streets in defiance…
Picture: Mike Goold of the Haldane Society takes a stand against repression in Egypt during a protest over cuts in Legal Aid in the UK on 6 Jan 2014 Barristers and solicitors from the Haldane Society, a campaigning organisation of socialist lawyers in the UK, and other prominent legal practitioners yesterday called for the Egyptian…
Well-known revolutionary activists from Alexandria have become the latest to face harsh jail terms and large fines for defying the anti-protest laws. Lu’ay Al-Qahwagi, Amr Hafez, Nasir Abu-al-Hamd and Islam Muhamadein were sentenced to two years hard labour in prison and ordered to pay a 50,000 LE fine (£4,000) on 2 January. Mahienour el-Masry and…
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