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…
Around 300 UK and international trade unionists have signed a statement condemning recent attacks by the Egyptian military on democratic freedoms. Signatories to the statement include PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka, teachers’ union leader Christine Blower, and Labour MPs John McDonnell and Katy Clark. Statement We note with grave concern recent developments in Egypt…
وقعت نحو 300 قيادة عمالية ونقابية بريطانية وفي مقدمتهم مارك سيروتكا سكرتير عام للنقابة العامة لموظفين الحكومة وأعضاء اللجنة التنفيذية للنقابة وكريستين بلور سكرتير عام لنقابة المعلمين في بريطانيا وقيادات من عمال البناء وعمال النفط غيرهم من النقابيين على عريضة تضامنية مع القوى الثورية في مصر. يدين النقابيين هجوم المجلس العسكري على الحريات الديمقراطية ويؤكد…
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…
A letter from the Revolutionary Association of Textile Workers to the revolutionaries on the barricades in Tahrir Square, Alexandria and Suez Original Arabic here 29 November 2011 Eleven days behind the barricades in the squares of Egypt is proof that the revolutionaries have reclaimed revolutionary legitimacy in seventeen provinces. Yet although the revolutionaries have offered…
Leaflet by EFITU being distributed in Tahrir Square today, 2 December No to al-Ganzoury’s cabinet appointments … No to ‘yellow’ trade unions In the context of the Military Council’s continued counter-revolutionary campaign, and in particular its insistence that Al-Ganzoury must form a government, despite the demand by the revolutionaries of Tahrir Square for a national…
Important Statement The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions announces its participation in the sit-in today (19 November 2011), under the slogan ‘Achieve the goals of the revolution which have been manipulated for the last ten months’. Change – Freedom – Social Justice Change: The henchmen of the old regime are still in positions of…
Over 1000 British trade unionists at the Unite the Resistance convention on 19 November pledged to send a message of solidarity to protesters in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt as they faced brutal attacks by the security forces. The audience heard the following statement from Dr Mohammed Shafiq, president of the Manshiyet al Bakri…
Updated with signatures 17 November We condemn the Egyptian authorities’ campaign of legal intimidation, torture and deadly violence against those who have continued to raise their voices and mobilise in the streets in support of the demands of the 25 January revolution: change, democracy and social justice. We note with particular concern the following recent…
We will stand against those who want to burn Egypt Let’s turn all our anger against those who want to stop the wheel of the revolution October 9 2011 Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions will fight with all its strength against attempts by the forces of counter-revolution…
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