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…
By Ameen Nemer The 34-year prison sentence and 34-year travel ban handed down to Leeds University PhD student Salma al-Shehab by a Saudi court in August 2022 has been followed by news of similar sentences given to two other women. Nourah bint Saeed Al Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison while Maha Alhoaiti…
Striking Sudanese electricity workers escalated their ongoing strike over pay by occupying the control room at Bahri Thermal Plant and reducing electrical load by 20 percent. According to TAM (the Alliance of Demand-based Bodies), this is part of a phased protest and is the result of management ignoring workers’ demands for the implementation of the…
Striking workers and activists in Sudan and Britain have begun to exchange messages of solidarity as strikes rise in both countries. In Sudan workers’ struggles over pay and conditions take place in the context of the on-going revolution, as a mass movement led by the neighbourhood-based Resistance Committees continues the struggle for democracy against the…
Leeds UCU has condemned the ruling of a Saudi court that ordered a 34-year prison sentence and travel ban to a member of its PhD cohort. Salma Al-Shehab, a human rights defender and PhD student at the University of Leeds was arrested over the peaceful content of her twitter feed by the Saudi authorities in…
MENA Solidarity Network 