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…
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…
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.…
Thousands of striking workers and activists fighting the rising cost of living in Britain heard a strong message of solidarity from Sudan for their struggles on the “Enough is Enough” day of action on 1 October. Mick Lynch, general secretary of the rail and port workers’ union RMT received a message of support from TAM,…
ترجمه فارسی در زیر آمده است البيان العربي تحت The Sudanese movement No to the Oppression of Women (La liqahr al-nisa’a) published this statement on their Facebook page in Arabic. The regime of Omar al-Bashir in Sudan, who was overthrown by a popular uprising in 2019, used similar tactics to the Iranian regime to instil…
Demonstrations have erupted across Iran over the past week, with tens of thousands taking to the streets. The response of the authorities has been brutal repression, with at least 35 people reportedly killed in the crackdown. Thousands joined solidarity demonstrations in London on 24 September, with around 2-3,000 people gathering in Trafalgar Square. Another protest…
Freedom, Peace, Justice This conference will bring together trade unionists and activists from Sudan and Britain to learn from each other and build solidarity for each others’ struggles for social justice and against political repression and attacks on workers’ rights. It will take place a year after the military seized power in Sudan on October…
The leader of a military junta which seized power in Sudan by forcing civilian politicians in the Transitional Government from office in October 2021 has reportedly been invited to the royal funeral. General Abdelfattah al-Burhan also has a track record in massacres and ethnic cleansing thanks to his role as as a military intelligence colonel…
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