From the Daily News Egypt…
Thirty-two factory workers have been arbitrarily dismissed from their jobs after protesting both the dismissal of a colleague and the failure of their employers to provide pay raises to which they are entitled.
Safaa Qandeel, an employee at El-Hennawy Tobacco factory, Damanhour, was dismissed following allegations that she ripped up her employment [...]

Kareem el-Beheiri reports…

Around 30 teachers from different provinces protested Saturday afternoon in Hussein Hegazi St, in front of the ministerial cabinet building, against the Education Ministry’s assessment exam. The teachers also denounced their state-backed union, calling for the establishment of a “free syndicate.”

I’ll post more pix and details about the teachers’ fight later…

Kamal, Giza…

Sha’aban, Daqahliya…

Abdel Nasser, Bani Sueif…

Ayman, Alexandria…

Abdel Qader, Giza…

Ahmad, Sharqiya…

Members of the Higher Committee for the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike convened in Cairo on Saturday, to carry on their fight to build what will be Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century…

The meeting included over 20 northern and southern provincial delegates, many of whom were from the central figures in the [...]

The chairman of the state-owned Steel Mills, Abdel Aziz Hafez, has ordered the company’s clinic to cease handing out Hepatitis C medication for workers, el-Badeel reports…

Leon Trotsky, The Lessons of October, Chapter 8…
Without a party, apart from a party, over the head of a party, or with a substitute for a party, the proletarian revolution cannot conquer. That is the principal lesson of the past decade. It is true that the English trade unions may become a mighty lever of [...]

Socialist Worker reports…

El-Badeel reports…

Around 1000 cement workers are currently staging two sit-ins south of Cairo in Helwan and Tebbin, demanding the 30% raise decreed by Mubarak last May, the “schools grant” (paid to workers in the fall to help them with the fees of their children schooling) and a compensation for the overtime work shifts they do.
No more [...]

Some verses of colloquial poetry that were sung during the December 2007 Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike, written by Islam Mohamed…
يا حكومة آه منك ياني .. قراراتك كلها شغلاني
من قلبي أتمنى أماني .. أشوف شعبي سعيد من تاني
قرارات ودواوين عصرية .. كلها دبح وغجرية
ويجيب منين غلبان .. من خوف إيدك القوية
يا حكومة آه منك ياني