The killing of Dr Rania Fouad, a recently qualified doctor who was working in one of the makeshift field hospitals treating injured protesters near Tahrir Square on Tuesday 22 November underlines the brutal nature of the war that Egypt’s generals are willing to wage against their own people. Rania was working in the hospital when…
Healthworkers in London send solidarity to the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and particularly to our colleagues working in the field hospitals there. We send our sincere condolences on the death of Dr Rania Fouad who was martyred on Tuesday 22nd November and we utterly condemn the attacks of the Egyptian police and army on the…
رسالتي التضامن من شبكة العاملين في قطاع الصحة في لندن إلى زملاءهم في المستشفيات الميدان (Healthworkers in London send a message of solidarity to colleagues in the Tahrir field hospitals – English version here) نحن عاملين في قطاع الصحة في لندن نرسل تضامننا إلى الثوار في ميدان تحرير وخاصةً إلى زملاءنا عاملين بالمستشفيات الميدانية. نبعث…
Around 100 protestors demonstrated in solidarity with Tahrir outside the Egyptian Embassy in London, 22 November. For more details of global protests go here London demonstration in solidarity with Tahrir, Saturday 26 November, 12 noon, Edgeware Road tube station, to march to Egyptian Embassy. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124100994367794
John Molyneux reports from Ireland: There was a very successful picket of the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin this evening (Monday 21 Nov). It attracted about 100 people at only 24 hours notice. This shows the powerful feelings of solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution that exist everywhere. Those taking part included about a dozen members of…
A call for international solidarity with protests in Egypt [28 Nov: Protests listed here between 21 – 28 November were mapped on this crowdmap plus there are links to pictures and video below] Hundreds of thousands of protesters are braving tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannon and live ammunition in demonstrations against the ruling military…
Important Statement The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions announces its participation in the sit-in today (19 November 2011), under the slogan ‘Achieve the goals of the revolution which have been manipulated for the last ten months’. Change – Freedom – Social Justice Change: The henchmen of the old regime are still in positions of…
Over 1000 British trade unionists at the Unite the Resistance convention on 19 November pledged to send a message of solidarity to protesters in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt as they faced brutal attacks by the security forces. The audience heard the following statement from Dr Mohammed Shafiq, president of the Manshiyet al Bakri…
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…
MENA Solidarity Network 