Joint Press Release from Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, MENASolidarity and UCU EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:00am, 24 September 2015 Unions launch campaign over UK government failure to act on Bahrain abuses. Call for independent audit of FCO assistance to Bahrain. UK and global trade unions today launched a campaign highlighting “widespread and systematic” human rights…
Model motion on Egypt (HE/FE unions) Read more on the repression of students in a recent report by Amnesty International. See below for a model motion for student unions. This union notes with grave concern the far-reaching assault on human rights currently underway in Egypt, three years after the uprising which toppled Mubarak. According to…
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…
Picture: Jane Loftus from the Communication Workers’ Union Dozens of trade union leaders signed a statement in solidarity Haitham Mohamedain, the Egyptian labour lawyer and revolutionary activist who was arrested last week, during TUC Congress in Bournemouth. Activists from MENA Solidarity also raised the crackdown on Egyptian revolutionaries, opponents of the military government and the…
Blacklisted construction workers and their union leaders are the latest to show solidarity with Bahraini healthworkers imprisoned in the clampdown after the 2011 uprising. At the Blacklist Support Group AGM on 23 March, union activists took time out from discussions of their own campaign against vicitimisations and sackings by multinational construction companies to send a…
Around fifty doctors and medical students at the March seminar of the Medical Practitioners Union section of UNITE expressed support for imprisoned Bahraini medics and health workers. Holding up signs with the names of seven medics and health workers who were jailed and tortured during the crackdown which followed the 2011 uprising, they pledged their…
Statement from United Left in Unite the Union 8 December 2012 عربي We declare our solidarity with our. Egyptian brothers and sisters who are fighting to defend the freedoms they won in the 25 January Revolution. We strongly condemn the attacks on peaceful protesters opposing the draft Constitution, and the assault by the Egyptian government…
Statement by United Left in Unite the Union condemns attacks on demonstrators against the constitution in Egypt (read the English here) بيان من منظمة اليسار المتحدة بنقابة يونيت البريطانية نعلن كامل تضامنا مع إخوتنا و أخواتنا المصريين الذين يناضلون للدفاع عن الحريات المكتسبة في ثورة 25 يناير. نحن ندين بشدة الهجمات على المتظاهرين السلميين المعارضين…
A delegation of activists from UK and Irish trade unions visited Cairo 29 Oct-4 Nov with MENA Solidarity network. Ian Bradley an electrician and UNITE union activist; Mary Compton from the NUT and Teachersolidarity.com; Colm Bryce, a UCU activist in Derry, and Anne Alexander from MENA Solidarity Network took part in the visit. If you…
Dear Brothers and Sisters The following doctors, health workers, and organisations express solidarity with the Egyptian Doctors Strike which happened today 1st October 2012. We support your demands for increasing the health spending to 15% of the state budget, for better security for hospital staff and patients, and a minimum wage for medical doctors of…
MENA Solidarity Network 