The Free Union leaders were having their weekly meeting near where I work in Downtown. The anniversary of the Hussein Hegazi St occupation is coming up soon, and the civil servants are planning celebrations across the Real Estate Tax Authorities offices and directorates all over the country on 3 December. Decorations will be put up [...]

I’m receiving news that the postal service workers will stage a sit-in today at their Postal Service HQ in Ataba, demanding job security… No more details are available yet…

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 25,000…

I received the following message from Jim Barbour, the Executive Council Member of the Fire Brigade Union…
We in Northern Ireland were very disturbed, and indeed angered, at news of this most recent round of attacks on workers in Egypt.
It is a tribute to workers in Egypt and especially those at Mahalla, that they continue to [...]

Via Let’s Reclaim Our Streets…
“An uprising can only succeed if the masses feel they have chance of success. They are not drilled military formations, trained to maintain their ranks in retreat as in advance. They are men and women who will give their all if they are going to achieve liberation, but who will quickly [...]

Sarah Carr reports…
Five workers involved in labor activity in Ghazl El-Mahalla spinning factory were subjected to unofficial disciplinary measures by the company’s management, one of them told Daily News Egypt.
The measures follow a protest held on Oct. 31 during which some 800 workers protested alleged plans to privatize and sell off the factory and called [...]

After doing some photography work for the paper, I’m joining the Egyptian left-leaning daily el-Badeel as a managing editor.. I’m honored I’ll be working with a team of friends, comrades and acquaintances who have been playing a heroic role in covering the industrial action, social resistance as well as exposing police torture and government corruption…
I’m [...]

The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch has issued its report on the engineers’ protests in the electric power stations of Abu Sultan and Etaqa…
There are two more reports by the EWTUW: One on the plight of Egyptian Drilling Co. workers, who were sacked by the management, and the other on the Egypt-Hijaz Plastic Co [...]

The Arab American Union Members Council expressed its unconditional support with the five victimized Ghazl el-Mahalla workers…

The National Forces have called for a protest Monday 1 December, 6pm, in front of Cairo’s Press Syndicate, in solidarity with the five victimized Ghazl el-Mahalla workers, the detained Muslim Brothers, incarcerated bloggers and the citizens of Sinai, and to denounce the police killings in Samalut, Ayyat, Assuit, and Aswan…

The Ghazl el-Mahalla protest has been postponed, and is expected to take place after Eid…
Keep your eyes on Mahalla…

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read a statement by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network…

Textile Workers’ League activist Wael Habib was banned today from entering the Ghazl el-Mahalla factory compound by police and company security. As I’m writing, there is NO official paper given to Wael that details his transfer decree. “The transfer decree was verbal,” said Habib in a phone call. “The management and the security refuse to [...]

Lawyers running for the Syndicate’s elections, on the Left List…

Ahmad Seif el-Islam…

Tarek el-Awadi…

Sayyed Fathi…

Ahmad Ezzat…

Helwan University’s Resistance Students organized a march against police brutality on campus today. Simultaneously, professors from the 9th of March Movement held a silent protest in front of the university’s administration building denouncing the administration’s involvement in the security assaults…