Palestinian activists Manar Raje and Haya Abu Shukhaidem speak to Oisin Challen Flyn about the growing movement over violence against women in Palestine. This is an article from the current issue of Middle East Solidarity magazine – help us continue our work by donating £2 for a digital copy online Across Palestine a new slogan…
Years of blockade have left people highly vulnerable to the impact of Covid-19 Gaza resident Ibtisam tells Dave Clinch. Ibtisam began by telling me that there were two reported cases of Coronavirus in Gaza. Because of the blockade since 2006 the health system is extremely weak. There are only sixty ventilators at the moment in…
Dockers in Genoa are mobilising to try once again to stop the loading of war materials on the Bahri Yanbu, a Saudi ship which Amnesty International says is part of a fleet that has ferried millions of dollars of arms to the war in Yemen. The latest news from Genoa indicates that the ship will…
Medical staff at Aqeirbat hospital in the countryside near Idlib in Syria staged a desperate protest on 6 February in a bid to draw attention to the destruction of health care facilities and hospitals. They carried banners inviting António Guterres, the UN Secretary General to visit Idlib and “see for himself” a rapidly growing list…
Since October 1st 2019, protesters demanding an end to corruption in Iraq have camped in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, while tens of thousands have joined mass demonstrations calling for radical political and social change. A major theme of the protests has been opposition to the influence of the Iranian regime over Iraq’s political system, but demonstrators…
In the Algerian province of Béjaia , grassroots democracy reached new heights in the four-day general strike in the run-up to the presidential election on 12 December. Middle East Solidarity spoke to university lecturer Kamel Aissat, an activist with the socialist PST party, about how organisation from below delivered an almost total shutdown of the…
Campaigning journalist Omar Radi was detained and charged with “insulting the judiciary” on 26 December, his lawyer has said. He will face prosecutors on 2 January in connection with a comment he made on Twitter 9 months ago about the role of the judge in the conviction of protest leaders from the Rif region. A…
