Tunisia: Video of WSF opening demonstration
Highlights of the demonstration of the first day of the world social forum in Tunis, on 26 March 2013. World Social Forum meets Spring Revolution. From Bastmag via Vimeo here
Tunisia: 1000 pack Popular Front rally against ‘dictatorship of debt’
By Anna Livingstone Around 1000 people filled the conference hall for a rally organised by the Tunisian Popular Front against the ‘Dictatorship of Debt’. Speakers from Arab countries joined representatives of left parties from Europe and Latin America. The meeting began with a video tribute to murdered leftist leader Chokri Beleid, who was shot dead…
Bahrain: Blacklisted UK construction workers back medics campaign
Blacklisted construction workers and their union leaders are the latest to show solidarity with Bahraini healthworkers imprisoned in the clampdown after the 2011 uprising. At the Blacklist Support Group AGM on 23 March, union activists took time out from discussions of their own campaign against vicitimisations and sackings by multinational construction companies to send a…
Bahrain: University College London Hospital UNISON supports campaign
Healthworkers at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, voted today to back our campaign in solidarity with their Bahraini colleagues. At UCLH UNISON’s annual general meeting, delegates voted overwhelming to back the resolution below and sent a picture message of solidarity to jailed nurses Ibrahim al-Demistani, Hassan…
Tunisia: MENA Solidarity delegation to join World Social Forum
A delegation of activists from MENA Solidarity Network will take part in the World Social Forum in Tunis between 26-30 March. We will be joining thousands of activists from Tunisia and around the world for the event, in order to share our experiences of organising solidarity with the Arab revolutions and in particular to learn…
Bahrain: UK doctors join campaign for jailed colleagues
Around fifty doctors and medical students at the March seminar of the Medical Practitioners Union section of UNITE expressed support for imprisoned Bahraini medics and health workers. Holding up signs with the names of seven medics and health workers who were jailed and tortured during the crackdown which followed the 2011 uprising, they pledged their…
يونان:رسالة التضامن من عمال “فيومي” إلى عمال قوطة للصلب
Picture: George Constantinides from http://www.biom-metal.blogspot.gr Read the English here وصلنا هذه الرسالة من حملة التضامن مع عمال “فيومي” في يونان رداً على الرسالة من عمال قوطة للصلب. الزملاء الأعزاء، يسعدني أن أقدم لكم نفسي، أنا تيو من مبادرة سالونيكي للتضامن مع نضال عمال “فيومي”. لقد أوصلت رسالتكم لنقابة عمال “فيومي” وقد أعربوا عن رغبتهم الأكيدة…
Greece: Vio.Me workers’ solidarity message to Kouta Steel in Egypt
الترجمة العربية للرسالة هنا Workers at the Kouta Steel plant in Egypt have occupied their factory and begun production under workers’ control – read the message they sent to Vio.Me steel workers in Greece who have taken the same steps recently. This is the reply we received from the Vio.Me workers. Dear Friends, This is…
Lebanon: All-out public sector strike continues, teachers escalate action
By Bassem Chit, Beirut Monday 25 February 2013 The Lebanese Trade Union Coordination Committee (TUCC) is still continuing its open strike for the seventh day, Public sector employees, public schools teachers, and private school teachers have been on strike since last Tuesday 19/2/2013. Sit-ins and protests are being held on a daily basis infront of…
مصر: رسالة تضامن من عمال مصنع قوطة للصلب في مصر الى عمال مصنع فيومي للمعادن باليونان
English here لقد تابعنا نحن عمال مصنع قوطة للصلب بمدينة العاشر من رمضان في جمهورية مصر العربية ما يحدث في مصنع فيومي (Vio.Me) للمعادن في مدينه ثيسالونيكي في اليونان وهروب صاحب المصنع وما تبعه من قرار الجمعية العمومية للعمال بالتسير الذاتي للمصنع وتشكيل ما يسمى ب (تعاونية إنتاجية) تحت إدارة العمال وما تبع ذلك من…
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