Interview with Mohamed Sghaier Saihi, Assistant General Secretary of the regional union federation in Kassrine, Tunisia. We interviewed him by email on 8 August. MENA Solidarity: What are the main causes of workers’ anger in Tunisia at the moment? Mohamed Sghaier: Here are the main causes of the revolutionary process: 1- The high rate of unemployment,…
Textile workers in Mahalla al-Kubra, Egypt, are on strike. Read more here on their demands and why solidarity matters. Email us via menasolidarity@gmail.com to send a message of support from your union branch or work colleagues. Take a solidarity picture with this sign and post on facebook.com/mena.solidarity, put on twitter (@menasolidarity) or email to us International…
One of the leaders of the Mahalla strike, Kamal Fayoumi, talks about the workers’ demands in an interview on 17 July. Video transcript below We are now in Misr Spinning in Mahalla. We had our legitimate demands before the revolution. We hoped these demands would be met after the revolution. Unfortunately the Military Council made…
Over 20,000 workers at the Misr Spinning plant in Mahalla are on strike. Read more here. Video transcript below. Worker in white shirt: ‘We have four demands: an increase in bonuses, a bigger share of profits, an increase in the retirement bonus from two and a half months’. Woman worker: ‘The first thing he does…
Around 23,000 workers at Misr Spinning in the industrial town of Mahalla al-Kubra in the Egyptian delta began indefinite strike action on 15 July. Over three thousand workers stayed overnight in the factory. The workers are demanding a share of the company’s profits for the past twelve months and the resignation of General Fouad Abd-al-Alim…
Sudanese activists inside and outside the country joined demonstrations this week to highlight the large number of women who have injured and detained during the protest movement of the last few weeks. In Sudan, protests took place under the name “Kandaka Friday” on 13 July. Sudanese activists told MENA Solidarity network, the choice of name…
Activists involved in organising the recent wave of protests which have spread across Sudan since mid-June have been arrested and tortured by the regime, sources in the Sudanese opposition told MENA Solidarity Network this week. Demonstrations by students on 16 June against austerity measures have sparked a wider protest movement which has begun to raise…
أخذت نقابة يونيت التي تمثل 1.5 مليون عامل في بريطانيا وأيرلندا القرار التالي في مناقشة عن مصر خلال مؤتمرها 25-28 يونيو 2012 مصر يدين مؤتمر نقابة يونيت في بريطانيا وأيرلندا قرارات الأخيرة للمجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة في مصر التي تركزت السلطة التشريعية والتنفيذية والقضائية في أيدي الجنرالات غير المنتخبين وتشمل هذه القرارات حل مجلس الشعب…
The following emergency resolution was passed at UNITE the union’s policy conference 25-28 June 2012. Emergency resolution on Egypt Unite conference condemns recent moves by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt which concentrate legislative, executive and judicial power in the hands of unelected generals. These include the dissolution of parliament, the removal…
UNITE the union’s policy conference in Brighton heard from workers’ struggles across the globe and closer to home, at a fringe meeting organised by Unite the Resistance on 26 June. Mostafa Bassiouny, Egyptian journalist and revolutionary socialist activist spoke alongside striking Asturian miner Segundo Menendez Collar, blacklisted electrician Steve Acheson and Russ Ball, UNITE stand-down…
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