Highlights of the Sudan Solidarity Conference 2023

In London on Saturday, September 30, 2023, the National Education Union headquarters at Hamilton House hosted the Sudan Solidarity Conference 2023. Organised by the Middle East and North Africa Solidarity Network (MENA Solidarity) and British and Sudanese unions and organisations in a display of unity and support for the Sudanese people. Notably, this marks the third Sudan Solidarity Conference organised by MENA Solidarity and proved to be the largest to date.

Egypt: solidarity protests across the world one year on from the revolution

Updated with details of Sydney, Australia protest Here is a selection of some of the protests held this week to mark one year since the Egyptian revolution and in solidarity with the Egyptian peoples’ on-going struggle for freedom, democracy and economic justice: Sydney, Australia: Sydney Solidarity Protest with Egyptian Revolution One Year On – 25…

Bahrain Revolution Conference Report

Held in Manchester on 17th December 2011, organised by the Bahrain Solidarity Campaign and the Human Rights Organistaion RAPAR ‘Those of us who are free to speak, we must raise our voices.’ We need to ‘show solidarity with the people of Bahrain’, said Tony Lloyd, MP, opening the Bahrain Revolution Conference, held in Manchester, in…

Syria: ‘Dignity strike’ escalates, protests across the country

Yesterday, the 5th January, marked a new stage in the month long ‘Dignity strike’ in Syria, which has spread to all of Syria’s major cities and involved thousands of workers. The latest phase involves disruption of traffic and the creation of ‘noise disturbances’, with people urged to occupy the streets, bang pots and drums, and…

Syria: solid start to ‘Dignity Strike’

Shops, markets, schools, transport services and factories were all closed in the first stages of a general strike against the Assad government in Syria. The ‘Dignity Strike’ began on December 12th and activists hope it will intensify up until the end of December, bringing in more groups of workers as well as university students. The…

Egypt: Strike statistics for 2009 – 2011

Egyptian NGO Awlad al-Ard publishes regular reports of strike activity in Egypt. It is not clear exactly what the sources are for this information, but presumably the reports are largely compiled from press coverage of strikes. The distinction between these different categories of collective action is not particularly clear. For example, most sit-ins will necessarily…

Egypt: MENA Solidarity report on independent unions

A detailed report by members of the UK trade union delegation to Cairo May 2011 organised by MENA Solidarity Network, written by members of the UCU, RMT, PCS, CWU and NUT unions. Click below for pdf version MENASolidarity_Egyptindependentunions Copies are also available to order for £2 each (+p&p) from menasolidarity@gmail.com

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