Sudan’s teachers are on the frontline of a struggle for peace. The war-torn nation has seen its education system crumble, with millions of children out of school and teachers facing immense hardship. The Sudanese Teachers’ Committee has launched a campaign to end the war, calling for solidarity from the international community. Their courageous stand against the devastating war is a beacon of hope for the Sudanese people.
متحدون من أجل الحرية و السلام و العدالة للجميع
استضاف مقر نقابة المعلمين البريطانية في هاملتون هاوس في لندن يوم السبت ٣٠ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٣ مؤتمر التضامن مع السودان – ٢٠٢٣ الذي نظمته شبكة التضامن مع الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا والنقابات والمنظمات البريطانية و السودانية في عرض للوحدة والدعم للشعب السوداني. يُعتبر مؤتمر التضامن مع السودان – ٢٠٢٣ النسخة الثالثة من مؤتمرات التضامن مع السودان و التي تنظمها شبكة التضامن مع الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا سنويا، وقد أثبت أنه الأكبر حتى الآن
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.
Declaration by delegates to the Sudan Solidarity Conference 2023Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London – Saturday 30 September This conflict has brought together trade unionists and activists from Sudan and Britain to demand an end to the war which is tearing Sudan apart. We are united in sorrow and anger at the damage done to the lives…
Wednesday 7 December – 4-5.30pm (Speakers’ contributions and discussion 4-5pm, planning practical action in solidarity 5-5.30pm) Join this online event to learn more about what trade unionists and student activists can do to build international solidarity for the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. Since the security forces killed Mahsa Jina Amini, a young Kurdish…
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.…
Leeds UCU has condemned the ruling of a Saudi court that ordered a 34-year prison sentence and travel ban to a member of its PhD cohort. Salma Al-Shehab, a human rights defender and PhD student at the University of Leeds was arrested over the peaceful content of her twitter feed by the Saudi authorities in…
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…
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…
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…
MENA Solidarity Network 