Women activists are playing key roles in the popular uprising which has been shaking Sudan since December 2018. Sudanese activist Fatima Joda writes on her experience of seeing protests brutally repressed by the El Bashir regime’s security forces for Middle East Solidarity magazine. Read more on the background here. Find ideas for actions you can…
Dr Sara Abdelgalil recorded this video for the Stand up to Racism / TUC trade union conference on 23 February 2019. Read more on the background to the Sudanese uprising here Get involved with mobilising solidarity here
Sudanese activists will be organising protests in Liverpool and London on 9 February, as trade unionists across the country are moblising in solidarity with their demands for democratic change and social justice. Sudanese refugees in Liverpool will gather at Lime Street station at 1pm, while Sudanese activists will also gather in Trafalgar Square in London…
Middle East Solidarity magazine spoke to Dr Sara Abdel Jalil, President of the UK branch of the Sudan Doctors’ Union about the demands of the mass movement which erupted over the last month calling for an end to Omar El Bashir’s repressive regime. “The Sudan Doctors’ Union – UK branch was established in 1976. We…
Protests have been spreading across Sudan over the last week over cuts to fuel subsidies imposed by the regime of Omar al-Bashir. The video below shows demonstrators marching in the street chanting “Freedom” – hurriya. They have been met with brutal force by the Sudanese authorities, with at least 50 shot dead by the police…
Still fighting for social justice… How workers in the Middle East are resisting neo-liberalism, austerity and privatisation By Jonathan Maunder and Anne Alexander In 2011, when revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt toppled dictators, British government ministers rushed to congratulate the Tunisian and Egyptian people on their democratic achievements. Two years later, they are forcing an…
Students at the University of West Kordofan in Al-Nohood City mobilised protests on 14 October, against electricity blackouts in the city, cuts in public services and the rising cost of living. Sudanese activists told MENA Solidarity Network that the demonstration was suppressed violently by the security forces and police, assisted by students of the National…
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…
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