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, by HUSAIN Ed
Egypt is ablaze. Hundreds of thousands protested in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, but for fear of an Islamist regime the US now risks being remembered as a democracy that abandons democrats. After generations in opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood now wants to play a part in Egypt’s future, (…)
, by ECWR
Justice in Egypt received a blow to its essence when the general assembly refused to allow judges of the State Council (Administrative Courts) the option to appoint women to judiciary positions. 380 members participated in the vote. 334 members refused the option to appoint women while 43 agreed (…)
The Mirage of stability
Political Stability is a scarce commodity in the troubled region of Middle East; henceforth, the ultimate priority of Mubarak’s government has essentially remained the same over the decades: to ensure minimum stability and preserve a semblance of domestic political (…)
, by Brunei fm World
Government of Egypt changes policy to allow humanitarian group Viva Palestina to enter Gaza December 27, 2009.
Gaza Freedom March congratulates the Government of Egypt on its change of policy to allow international missions into Gaza during December with the decision to allow the Viva (…)
, by ASHLEY Brian, El SAADAWI Nawal
Egyptian writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi is widely acclaimed in Arab countries and in many other parts of the world for her outspoken views. Her writings explore the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab societies. She is also an outspoken political commentator, and has endured prison and (…)
, by SAID Atef
IN APRIL 2009, a familiar scenario was repeated, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s police apparatus assaulted planned demonstrations and a Mahalla textile workers’ strike. A year earlier, many activists and ordinary people from Mahalla received sentences in politically charged criminal (…)
, by SAID Atef
THE EGYPTIAN WORKING class is one of the oldest in the region, with a long history of internationalist solidarity. Egyptian loading and longshoremen workers in 1947, for example, boycotted the Dutch ship in Canal Suez in solidarity with the Indonesian people’s independence struggle. The union of (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
A delegation of trade unionists and campaigners handed a petition to the Egyptian embassy in London Thursday 7 August, calling for the release of 49 Egyptian citizens facing trial in the Higher State Security Court on 9 August on charges related to protests in Mahalla on 6 and 7 April this year. (…)
On the eve of the trial of 49 people for alleged involvement in violent protest, Amnesty International calls on the Egyptian authorities to stop trying individuals before special emergency courts that flout basic guarantees for fair trial. The organization also urges the authorities to open (…)
, by EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
On the seventh of December 2006, 3,000 female garment workers went on strike in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla, which is home to 27,000 workers working in a textile mill, shoulder to shoulder. It’s the biggest textile mill in the region. These women workers went on strike and started marching (…)
, by JOYA Angela
In April 2008, after a wave of protests over low wages and high food prices, including an attempt to generate a general strike by many workers and social activists on April 6 and led by workers in the state-run textile industry, the Egyptian government suspended its export of rice and cement in (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Egyptian workers are leading a strike movement demanding higher wages as
prices spiral out of control. Millions of ordinary people are facing hunger
because of the lack of affordable food.
In response to a call for a strike on April 6th by the workers in the
Mahallah textile complex, the (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Today we stand, hand in hand with the workers of Ghazl el-mahalla, and with all of Egypt’s workers; we stand in solidarity with their struggle against a state which have constantly worked on draining and impoverishing the masses of workers and poor for the interest of the rich minority.
We (…)
, by Center for Socialist Studies
In light of recent events in Egypt yesterday April 6, 2008, the Center for Socialist Studies calls on supporters of freedom and justice everywhere in the world to show there support for victims of repression in Egypt. Mount pressure on the Egyptian dictatorship to release more than 800 detained (…)
, by BASSIOUNY Mustafa, SAID Omar
The beginning of the 1990s saw Hosni Mubarak start to implement World Bank and IMF policies, including a “structural adjustment programme”, privatisation and attacks on workers’ rights.1 The old centres of the working class, such as Mahalla, Kafr al-Dawwar and Helwan, bore the brunt of the (…)
, by Baheyya
Like many others, I’ve been riveted by the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike and sit-in. How did these civil servants manage to launch such bold and sustained collective action over a period of months? And if indeed their grievances have been festering since 1974, why was it only now that they (…)
, by ED DIN Gamal Essam
In drafting an alternative constitution, Egypt’s four largest secular opposition parties are attempting to position themselves as a viable alternative to both the NDP and the Muslim Brotherhood, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
Constitutional experts from Egypt’s four largest secular opposition (…)
, by BEININ Joel
For the second time in less than a year, in the final week of September the 24,000 workers of the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla al-Kubra went on strike — and won. As they did the first time, in December 2006, the workers occupied the Nile Delta town’s mammoth textile mill and (…)
, by ESSOYAN Catherine
The Centre for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS), established in 1990, and supported by Oxfam Novib since 1993, is an independent civil society organisation whose role is to provide support, facilitate and assist the activation of an Egyptian independent labour movement capable of (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Please find below the text of a letter about repression in Egypt. The letter comes in response to a call for solidarity from Cairo, and is modelled on a petition circulating in Egypt at the moment which has been signed by over 200 prominent opposition activists, MPs, journalists and artists. (…)
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