MENA Solidarity Network – Activists’ Workshop 1 – 3.30pm – 29 June 2013 Bloomsbury Suite, University of London Union, Malet Street, WC1E 7HY Two years after the ‘Arab Spring’ began, the explosive combination of neo-liberalism and political repression continues to spark massive popular protests. MENA Solidarity’s Activists’ Workshop will be an opportunity to hear first-hand…
By Anna Livingstone Around 1000 people filled the conference hall for a rally organised by the Tunisian Popular Front against the ‘Dictatorship of Debt’. Speakers from Arab countries joined representatives of left parties from Europe and Latin America. The meeting began with a video tribute to murdered leftist leader Chokri Beleid, who was shot dead…
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…
هند عبد الجواد نقابية مصرية و ناشطة من مراكز المعلومات. هي تتحدث هنا عن النضال ضد التقشف في مؤتمر نقابي في لندن يوم 17 نوفمبر Read more about the campaign for trade union rights in Egypt here A statement in solidarity with Gaza signed by hundreds of trade unionists was also launched at the Unite…
Vice-president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, Jalila al-Salman recorded a video message for the MENA Solidarity Network event in Parliament ‘Teachers and the Arab Spring’. The audience also heard from resigned Bahraini MPs Ali Alaswad and Jawad Fairouz about the repression faced by teachers and other activists over recent months and the torture suffered by…
Teachers and the Arab Spring Eyewitness reports from Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain Monday 12 November, 7.30pm Committee Room 8, House of Commons, SW1A 2TT Speakers: Mohamed Sghaier Saihi: UGTT union federation, teachers’ spokesman in the Kasserine region Mary Compton: NUT activist and editor of Teachersolidarity website, recently returned from a delegation to Egypt Ali Alaswad:…
Updated with details of Sydney, Australia protest Here is a selection of some of the protests held this week to mark one year since the Egyptian revolution and in solidarity with the Egyptian peoples’ on-going struggle for freedom, democracy and economic justice: Sydney, Australia: Sydney Solidarity Protest with Egyptian Revolution One Year On – 25…
Egyptian activists abroad are organising protests for the continuation of the revolution and calling for the downfall of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on 25 January 2012. Revolutionaries in Egypt will be also mobilising on that day, which marks the anniversary of the beginning of the revolution. All those in Egypt and…
London Transport Region of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) has called a meeting to discuss how trade unionists in Britain and round the world can support the Palestinian fight for freedom. In commemoration of International Workers’ Day, the Palestinian trade union movement formed the: Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS).…
Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa al-Khalifa, member of Bahrain’s ruling family wants to do business in Manchester this Thursday and we say “No”. Join the demonstration, 9.00am, Thursday 13 October, Bridgewater Hall, opposite Midland Hotel and tell the Bahrain business delegation at the “Doing Business in Bahrain” seminar and their partners, the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to stop their regime’s bloody…
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