Joint Press Release from Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, MENASolidarity and UCU EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:00am, 24 September 2015 Unions launch campaign over UK government failure to act on Bahrain abuses. Call for independent audit of FCO assistance to Bahrain. UK and global trade unions today launched a campaign highlighting “widespread and systematic” human rights…
Colleagues from the teachers’ unions in Tunisia sent MENA Solidarity a copy of the following message which they have sent to the NUT and NASUWT teachers’ unions in the UK in solidarity with their ongoing strikes to defend their pay and pensions. At the bottom of this article you will find details of how you…
Picture: Jane Loftus from the Communication Workers’ Union Dozens of trade union leaders signed a statement in solidarity Haitham Mohamedain, the Egyptian labour lawyer and revolutionary activist who was arrested last week, during TUC Congress in Bournemouth. Activists from MENA Solidarity also raised the crackdown on Egyptian revolutionaries, opponents of the military government and the…
By Maggie Falshaw [Update: 19 April – solidarity message from UCU members at Westminster Kingsway college] School teachers in Tunis are planning one day strikes in secondary and primary schools on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 25th April respectively. The strikers’ demands are for a pay increase, as rampant inflation has considerably lowered the value of…
Vice-president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, Jalila al-Salman recorded a video message for the MENA Solidarity Network event in Parliament ‘Teachers and the Arab Spring’. The audience also heard from resigned Bahraini MPs Ali Alaswad and Jawad Fairouz about the repression faced by teachers and other activists over recent months and the torture suffered by…
Teachers from around the UK sent solidarity messages to Bahraini Teachers’ Association leaders, Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi Abu-Deeb who are facing years in jail for peaceful protests. The verdict in their trial will be announced on 21 October. NUT and NASUWT members were among the hundreds of thousands marching on the TUC’s protest against cuts…
