Solidarity from the Cairo Water Company Workers’ Union for the UCU / Unite / UNISON strike on 31 October: “The Independent union of workers in the Cairo Drinking Water Company declares its solidarity with the workers’ movement in Britain and its solidarity with colleagues who are taking strike action on 31 October in the universities because…
Statement from Fatma Ramadan, member of the Executive Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions – original Arabic here Thanks to Sara Ajlyakin for the translation, edited by Anne Alexander Al-Sisi’s “Permission” is a Deadly Poison My comrades, the workers of Egypt are struggling for their rights and for a better Egypt. Egypt’s…
Egyptian Army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s call for massive protests against terrorism on 26 July has won wide support with many independent unions endorsing the demonstrations. The April 6 Youth Movement and the Revolutionary Socialists, along with activists in the Constitution Party’s student groups have rejected al-Sisi’s appeal. The demonstrations come after two weeks of tension…
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions 14th Fl. Kyunghyang-shinmunsa Bldg., 22 Jeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-702, Korea Tel.: +82-2-2670-9118 Fax: +82-2-2635-1134 E-mail: inter@kctu.org July 1, 2013 Re: Solidarity Message for the struggling Workers in Egypt We, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) extend our warm hearted solidarity to the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU) and…
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, the Permanent Congress of Workers in Alexandria, the Revolutionary Socialists, Rebel Movement, the Egyptian Centre for Social and Economic Rights Revolution awakened the fighting spirit of the Egyptian people, crowning the escalation of workers’ sit-ins and strikes which had been on the rise since 2006 – a mobilisation led…
MENA Solidarity spoke to Abeer Ashour, President of the Union of Bread Sellers and Producers in Suez during a recent visit to Egypt. Abeer sells the flat, round loaves which form a crucial part of the diet for millions of Egypt’s poorest people. This bread is subsidized by the government, but this system is under…
Cairo: 5th June 2013 Solidarity Declaration from the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions to the workers of Turkey ********************************************************************************************* In the shadow of the vicious attack on the working class across the world and our region by the global capitalist regimes, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions stands in solidarity with workers in…
Hind Abdel Gawad, a trade unionist and revolutionary activist from Zagazig in Sharqiyya province, Egypt, talks about the challenges facing the workers’ movement in Egypt in a video message for Manchester TUC’s May Day rally, 4 May 2013. Hind, who played a leading role in strikes by Information Centre workers before the revolution, visited London…
Translation of joint statement calling for protests to mark May Day 2013 (picture of May Day protest 2012 by Gigi Ibrahim via Flickr) Workers have been coming out every day for years to demand their rights from the businessmen who were protected by Mubarak’s government in the past and now by Morsi. We have the…
Workers’ leaders headed a march of thousands from Shubra in northern Cairo towards Tahrir Square as part of protests marking the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on 25 January. The demonstration, which was one of several marches which converged on Tahrir, focussed on the revolution’s unmet demands for social justice. Revolutionary Socialist activist and…
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