On October 20th trade unionists and activists from all over Britain will march against the government’s agenda of austerity, cuts, privatisation and unemployment. Activists from MENA Solidarity network will be leafleting the march and asking people to send messages of solidarity to workers in the Middle East and North Africa who are also fighting for…
Saturday 6 October saw hundreds of people protesting against the closure of Accident and Emergency services in four West London hospitals. Marchers heard from MENA Solidarity activists about the Egyptian doctors’ strike and sent messages of solidarity to health workers and patients in Egypt who are fighting for a better health service for all. احتج المئات…
Dear Brothers and Sisters The following doctors, health workers, and organisations express solidarity with the Egyptian Doctors Strike which happened today 1st October 2012. We support your demands for increasing the health spending to 15% of the state budget, for better security for hospital staff and patients, and a minimum wage for medical doctors of…
UPDATED 29 September Doctors are the latest to join the wave of strikes which has rolled across Egypt over the past month. Read more here about their struggle for social justice. Over the weekend of 15-16 September there were strikes by workers in 20 universities, a national teachers’ strike, action by Cairo bus workers, textile…
Mahdi Abu Deeb, President of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, and Jalila Al Salman, BTA are due in the appeal court on 9 September. Last year, the two union leaders were sentenced to 10 and 3 years in prison for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011. Recent appeal verdicts have upheld harsh sentences against other…
Sudanese activists inside and outside the country joined demonstrations this week to highlight the large number of women who have injured and detained during the protest movement of the last few weeks. In Sudan, protests took place under the name “Kandaka Friday” on 13 July. Sudanese activists told MENA Solidarity network, the choice of name…
Activists involved in organising the recent wave of protests which have spread across Sudan since mid-June have been arrested and tortured by the regime, sources in the Sudanese opposition told MENA Solidarity Network this week. Demonstrations by students on 16 June against austerity measures have sparked a wider protest movement which has begun to raise…
أخذت نقابة يونيت التي تمثل 1.5 مليون عامل في بريطانيا وأيرلندا القرار التالي في مناقشة عن مصر خلال مؤتمرها 25-28 يونيو 2012 مصر يدين مؤتمر نقابة يونيت في بريطانيا وأيرلندا قرارات الأخيرة للمجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة في مصر التي تركزت السلطة التشريعية والتنفيذية والقضائية في أيدي الجنرالات غير المنتخبين وتشمل هذه القرارات حل مجلس الشعب…
The following emergency resolution was passed at UNITE the union’s policy conference 25-28 June 2012. Emergency resolution on Egypt Unite conference condemns recent moves by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt which concentrate legislative, executive and judicial power in the hands of unelected generals. These include the dissolution of parliament, the removal…
Around 300 UK and international trade unionists have signed a statement condemning recent attacks by the Egyptian military on democratic freedoms. Signatories to the statement include PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka, teachers’ union leader Christine Blower, and Labour MPs John McDonnell and Katy Clark. Statement We note with grave concern recent developments in Egypt…
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