التجرمة العربية هنا Updated with final signatures 7 January We condemn the attacks, resulting in widespread injury and death, by the Egyptian military on protesters at the Cabinet Offices and Tahrir Square from 16th December 2011. As doctors and medical students, we express solidarity with Egyptian medical students, doctors and health workers, and give our…
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…
Workers in five oil and soap companies in the Delta towns of Damietta, Mansoura, Zagazig were set to strike on 15 December. Mohammed Abd-al-Rahman, a workers’ leader in the Sandub Oil Factory said that the dispute dated from the beginning of the revolution, when workers raised a demand for a 50% raise in their bonuses.…
Revolutionaries in Syria are calling for mass participation in a series of actions building up to a general strike across the public sector by the end of December. The ‘Dignity Strike’ campaign, according to the Al-Jazeera report above, will go through six phases. Beginning on 12 December, revolutionaries will call for a partial strike between…
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…
Around 300 workers from Tanta Flax and Oils Company were in occupation for a second day on 13 November in a bid to enforce a recent court decision to return the company to the public sector. The occupation has been organised by workers who were forced to leave the company under the ‘early retirement’ scheme…
From the Bahraini Justice and Development Movement: Since the ludicrous sentencing of the 20 Bahrain medics we have been asking medical workers around the world to sign this petition to the Ministry of Health, demanding that the charges be dropped. With hundreds of signatures and their re-trial set for Monday 28th November we are now…
Dr Mohammed Shafiq, President of the Independent Union of Workers in Manshiet al-Bakry General Hospital, talks about the struggle of health workers to build independent unions and bring about a revolution in Egypt’s health system. The union was founded in the wake of Mubarak’s overthrow and led a revolution of its own within the hospital,…
Staff and students at Alexandria University on strike, 1 October From Assiyut to Alexandria, Egypt’s universities were largely paralysed by strikes organised by students and staff as term began. The strikes have been fuelled by demands to democratise senior university appointments and calls to get rid of university and faculty heads appointed by the old…
Translated from a report in Al-Ishtaraki newspaper, 1 October 2011. Original Arabic here Around three thousand workers from the Public Transport Authority blocked Qasr al-Aini street outside the parliament buildings in central cairo today, demanding increases to their wages, a rise of 200% in their incentive pay, and the resignation of Ahmad al-Borai, the Minister…
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