Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, the Permanent Congress of Workers in Alexandria, the Revolutionary Socialists, Rebel Movement, the Egyptian Centre for Social and Economic Rights Revolution awakened the fighting spirit of the Egyptian people, crowning the escalation of workers’ sit-ins and strikes which had been on the rise since 2006 – a mobilisation led…
The ‘Rebel’ campaign has taken Egypt by storm in recent months. The movement, which was started by young revolutionary activists in May this year, has become a lightning rod for discontent with the Muslim Brotherhood. So far 15 million people have signed the campaign statement, withdrawing confidence from Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president Mohammed Morsi and pledging…
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…
MENA Solidarity spoke to Abeer Ashour, President of the Union of Bread Sellers and Producers in Suez during a recent visit to Egypt. Abeer sells the flat, round loaves which form a crucial part of the diet for millions of Egypt’s poorest people. This bread is subsidized by the government, but this system is under…
Disabled education workers from Sharqiyya province in Egypt took their campaign for solidarity with their struggle for permanent contracts, a living wage and an end to discrimination to Cairo last week. A meeting at the Centre for Socialist Studies in Giza heard how a sit-in by hundreds of education workers outside the Sharqiyya governor’s offices…
Cairo: 5th June 2013 Solidarity Declaration from the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions to the workers of Turkey ********************************************************************************************* In the shadow of the vicious attack on the working class across the world and our region by the global capitalist regimes, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions stands in solidarity with workers in…
Around 600 workers at IFFCO Egypt, which produces edible oils for the UAE-based food manufacturing group IFFCO, have been locked out by management after a strike in protest at IFFCO’s failure to implement a collective agreement signed last year. MENA Solidarity Network received the letter below from the IFFCO Egypt Workers’ Union committee, which has been…
Hundreds of disabled education workers in Zagazig, capital of Sharqiyya province in Egypt, are appealing for solidarity after their sit-in was attacked by the police last week. The workers, who are employed by the Education Department as teachers and administrators on poverty pay are demanding permanent contracts. Umran al-Khalifa told MENA Solidarity Network that the…
Dr Mahmoud al-Fardan worked in the Accident and Emergency department at Salmaniyya Hospital in Bahrain. He fled Bahrain in the wake of the brutal crackdown against protesters in 2011, having seen dozens of his colleagues arrested and sentenced to long jail terms. He witnessed the storming of Salmaniyya Hospital by the riot police and army…
Hassan Jumaa Awad, president of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, is facing up to 3 years in prison for organising strikes at the Southern Oil Company in Basra. An Iraqi court is now set to hear the case on 19 May, after previous hearings have been postponed multiple times because the oil company’s lawyers…
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