The number of Real Estate Tax Collectors, who have endorsed the call for establishing Egypt’s first independent trade union in half a century, has exceeded 20,000…

Blogger Kareem el-Beheiri will be interrogated today in by the Legal Affairs Department of Ghazl el-Mahalla Company, part of an ongoing administrative crackdown on labor activists in the factory, following the anti-corruption protest held 30 October.

The Mahalla 49 trial has been adjourned until Tuesday, 11 November, when video footage of 6 April Uprising and photos taken by James Buck will be shown to the court.
UPDATE: Photos of today’s session, taken by Sarah Carr….

Donny Gluckstein on the origin of the Internationale…

رؤية اشتراكية حول الأزمة المالية العالمية بقلم سامح نجيب…

I received the following message of solidarity with the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Collectors…
Hossam,
Thank you for meeting with myself and Jim Quinn (Regional Secretary, FBU, Northern Ireland ).
We found our discussions to be informative and indeed, in many ways to be inspirational.
We were proud to learn of the courageous struggle of so many workers in [...]

John Molyneux reviews Yasser Alwan’s photography…

More solidarity with the Egyptian Free Union Activists…
Dear Tax Collectors Friends,
We, as Limter-İş Union — that represents 40,000 workers and is affiliated to DİSK (Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions) — heard about your resistance.
We salute you on behalf of the shipyard workers, a part of our whole working class.
Your resistance is our resistance!
Cem Dinç,
General Secretary [...]

The management witch hunt has started following Thursday’s demo, Kareem el-Beheiri reports…

Jim Barbour, Executive Council Member of the Fire Brigade Union…

Jim Quinn, Regional Secretary of the Fire Brigade Union…

Jimmy Kelly, Irish Regional Secretary of Unite…

Colm Bryce, SWP organizer…

In response to a call by the Textile Workers’ League, Ghazl el-Mahalla workers demonstrated yesterday against corruption and privatization, calling for prosecuting their managers who’ve caused LE147 million losses to the company. The workers also repeated some the April 6th demands of a LE1200 national minimum wage, and denounced the increase in food prices..
It was [...]

Message from Belfast, in support of the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Collectors…
Can I express my union solidarity with your struggle.. I have been briefed by Hossam at a meeting in Belfast, Ireland in our union Headquarters and I am in admiration of your campaign for improving working conditions and for union freedom.
I have committed to [...]

Message from London….
Solidarity and fraternal greetings to the Independent General Union of Real Estate Tax Agency Workers in your inspiring fight to defend and improve your wages and conditions and to establish free, independent and democratic trade unions.
All our experience as working people, around the world, is that the surest guarantee of progress and fair [...]

Message from Belfast…
The University of Ulster Jordanstown Students’ Union fully supports the Egyptian Property Tax Collectors in their fight to establish independent trade unions in Egypt.
Solidarity,
Gerry Carroll, VP of Ulster Jordanstown S.U.

The General Secretary of the British National Union of Journalists has sent a letter of solidarity to the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Collectors who are building the country’s first independent trade union in half a century…
Dear sisters and brothers,
I am writing to wish you success and offer solidarity on the launch of your new free [...]