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…
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), supported by the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Solidarity Network, Manchester TUC and UNITE Greater Manchester IT branch, and hosted by the British Muslim Heritage Centre, present: ‘Reporting Revolution’ An evening of solidarity with the Arab revolutions Speakers: Dalia Mostafa, UCU Manchester University, just returned from Cairo Anna…
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.…
Thursday 12 May, 7pm NUJ Head Office, Headland House, Gray’s Inn Road, London Come and hear first reports from the delegation of RMT, PCS, NUJ, UCU, NUT and CWU members who took part in a trade union solidarity delegation to Cairo on May Day. We met activists from independent unions on the railways, Cairo public…
MENA Solidarity Network 