A CALL FOR SOLIDARITY…
The US-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak is prosecuting 49 Egyptians in the Emergency High State Security Criminal Court. It is accusing them of involvement in the recent two day uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla.
Egyptian security forces occupied Ghazl el-Mahalla, the biggest textile mill in the Middle East with 27,000 [...]

The Alexandrian textile strikers issued two statements, which you can find here and here…

Sarah Carr reports…
Some 100 workers from the Strow Misr company and their children gathered on Sunday in Dokki, Cairo, protesting the failure of the company’s management to pay them for over 15 months.
The protest was held outside the office of former Egyptian Prime Minister and Strow Misr executive director, Ali Lotfy, to coincide with a [...]

From Socialist Worker…
Hundreds of thousands of workers are gearing up to take on Gordon Brown’s pay curbs.
Up to 650,000 local government workers in the Unison and Unite unions are to take two days of strike action on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Teaching assistants, school cleaners and cooks, social workers, librarians, refuse workers, sports centre [...]

Marxism 2008’s Final Rally took place yesterday… There is nothing that can describe the euphoria when one knows that his or her struggle is part of a bigger global fight for a better world… For days I listened to comrades from around the globe debating ideas, sharing experiences, discussing strategy and tactics… It was very [...]

Tadamon reports that three hundred River Transportation Company workers, who had accepted early buyouts, are staging a sit-in at the Ma’adi Cornish, protesting the pathetic sums of money they were paid and which couldn’t help them cope with the skyrocketing prices… And click on the pic below to read a report on the a protest [...]

Al-Amiriya textile workers in Alexandria are on strike again…

Via General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions pledges its support for the 153 diamond polishers employed by the Lev Leviev Diamond (LLD) Polishing Company in Windhoek, Namibia, who have been on strike since June 19th to protest abusive managers as well as job appraisals and promotions, wages and [...]

MB blogger Ahmad Abdel Fattah had accompanied me on a trip to Talkha, and made this documentary on the struggle of the Mansoura-España Garments Company workers…

Here’s an audio recording of my speech at Marxism 2008 Opening Rally…

Some more pix from Marxism 2008…

Comrade Simon stressing the central role to be played by the Egyptian working class in smashing the Zionist State…

Ilan Pappé exposing Zionist myths and war crimes…

I visited the strikers in Trafalgar Square yesterday… To find out more about their plight and demands, check out their union website…

Sarah Carr reports…
Three detainees held since April in connection with clashes which occurred between demonstrators and security forces in Mahalla, have been released.
Defence lawyer Ahmed Ezzat of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression told Daily News Egypt that Mohamed Salah Marei, Mostafa Bedeir El-Sayyed and Rageb Gaber El-Mahdy, who were being held in [...]

This Monday, the Lebanese labor unions are to mobilize a demonstration in Beirut in front of the HQ of the US-backed Sanyoura’s govt, protesting the increase in prices of bread and fuel…

One of the interesting things I heard from our Lebanese comrades Simon and Bassem was that the events in Mahalla and the upturn in [...]

Marxism 2008 opened yesterday… I was honored to share platform with leading IST comrades from Britain, Zimbabwe and Ireland…

The first event in the conference saw Comrade Simon giving a great presentation on Palestine and the central role to be played by the Egyptian working class in smashing the Zionist state…

The full time table could be [...]

Painting some banners for the photo exhibition, SOAS…

The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch has issued its report on the industrial action in April… Click on the poster below to download it…