Speakers announced: Sudan Solidarity conference 6 November

For nearly four years, ordinary people in Sudan have been engaged in a remarkable struggle to overthrow military dictatorship and extend democracy. They have built popular revolutionary organisations in neighbourhoods and workplaces and started reorganising independent trade unions and workers’ committees to win social justice in the midst of huge attacks on their living standards.…

“We are part of an international movement” RMT’s Mick Lynch extends solidarity to struggles in Iran and Sudan on 1 October protests

Thousands of striking workers and activists fighting the rising cost of living in Britain heard a strong message of solidarity from Sudan for their struggles on the “Enough is Enough” day of action on 1 October. Mick Lynch, general secretary of the rail and port workers’ union RMT received a message of support from TAM,…

Event: Solidarity with the Sudanese Revolution: one year after the coup – 6 November 2022 (London and online)

Freedom, Peace, Justice  This conference will bring together trade unionists and activists from Sudan and Britain to learn from each other and build solidarity for each others’ struggles for social justice and against political repression and attacks on workers’ rights. It will take place a year after the military seized power in Sudan on October…

Urgent action: Sudanese Teachers Committee begins national strike

By Miriam Scharf In Sudan there is an ongoing revolution, a massive network of democratically elected resistance committees and now, this week, a nation wide teachers  strike.  The economic situation is dire, becoming worse day-by-day. No teacher in Sudan can live on the present salary. Families survive on remittances from abroad. >> Read more on…

Palestinian lecturer Shahd Abusalama’s teaching reinstated after student and union campaign

A campaign mobilising support from academics, students, trade unionists and Palestine solidarity activists has pushed back against the victimisation of Palestinian academic Shahd Abusalama, a PhD student and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Student activists, Palestine solidarity organisations, trade unionists and academics wrote letters of protest to SHU management and campaigned on social media…

Sudan Solidarity Conference: Vicky Blake (UCU) – VIDEO

Over two hundred participants joined this online event co-organised by Sudanese Diaspora Roundtable UK, MENA Solidarity, UCU, NEU, Edinburgh TUC and other trade unions on 6 December. A full report from the conference will be published in due course, but we will be publishing video highlights from the plenary speeches in advance. If you’d like…

Education unions raise alarm as Sudan military and militias beat and detain protesting teachers

Unions representing tens of thousands of workers in higher and further education have joined the calls for action in solidarity with the Sudanese popular uprising against military rule. Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) wrote to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, condemning the military coup and calling for immediate action by the British government to stop…