Portraits: Bab el-Louq بورتريهات: باب اللوق
Yasser el-Zayat, el-Badeel office…
Zein el-Abedeen Khairy, el-Badeel office…
Mustafa el-Garhi, el-Badeel office…
Hatem Hafez, el-Badeel office…
Wael Abbas, el-Horriya cafe/bar…
Mohamed Gaber, el-Horriya cafe/bar…
Malek Mustafa, el-Horriya cafe/bar…
Tomorrow: Helwan U Socialists to march against Gaza Siege طلاب مقاومة يتظاهرون ضد حصار غزةHelwan University’s Resistance Students are marching tomorrow, Tuesday, 11am, against the Gaza siege…
ألف مبروك
I was invited last night to the wedding party of Mervat’s daughter, Omniya Ibrahim and Waleed Sami, in Imbaba’s Madinet el-’Oummal (Workers’ City)…
Alf Mabrouk…
يا أشرف الناسThe 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 read more.. Tanta textile workers stage sit-inA group of textile workers from Tanta’s Cotton Co are staging a sit-in now at the General Federation of Trade Unions’ HQ in el-Galaa St, demanding the revoking of sacking degrees against them.
Postal workers demand job securityI’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…
Renewed crackdown on Ghazl el-Mahalla workersThe crackdown on Ghazl el-Mahalla activists continues… The govt-appointed CEO Fouad Hassan ordered today the transfer of five more women workers away from their departments…
As I’m writing, a Mahalla delegation has arrived at the General Federation of Trade Unions HQ in el-Galaa St, to protest the crackdown and is trying to see Hussein Megawer the read more.. The fight for free unions continues…
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…
Solidarity with Mahalla from Belfast رئيس نقابة رجال المطافئ بأيرلندا الشمالية يدين الهجمة على عمال المحلة
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 read more.. Off-duty officer detained for shooting manFrom the Daily News Egypt…
Police officer Adel Al-Shahed of the Giza police station is being held pending investigation for fatally shooting a man while off-duty.
Al-Shahed was involved in an altercation near the Shooting Club in Mohandiseen last Friday, where shots fired from his gun resulted in the death of one man and the injury of read more.. The Lost Revolution
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 read more.. Mahalla workers demand reversal of peer transfersSarah 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 read more.. El-Badeel البديل
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 read more.. The Torture Files تسع جرائم لضباط الشرطة ضد المواطنين أمام النيابات والمحاكمEl-Badeel has a special file on the recent spate of police torture and killings scandals…
Labor Updates تقارير عماليةThe 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 read more.. Showdown in GurnaFrom The Arabist…
On Tuesday 25 November at 11am, the authorities, without warning, cut off electricity to the inhabitants of the hills of Gurna and removed supply cables. The families - men, women, CHILDREN - who were unable to come to an agreement for their relocation are therefore forced to use candles for lighting (as petrol read more.. Arab-American Labor Unions: Solidarity with Mahalla الاتحاد العام لنقابات العمال العرب بأمريكا يتضامن مع عمال المحلةThe Arab American Union Members Council expressed its unconditional support with the five victimized Ghazl el-Mahalla workers…
1 Dec: Solidarity Protest وقفة إحتجاجية للتضامن مع عمال المحلة والمعتقلينThe 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…
Mahalla Updates: Sat protest postponedThe Ghazl el-Mahalla protest has been postponed, and is expected to take place after Eid…
Keep your eyes on Mahalla…
Anti-Zionist Jews condemn Israel’s siege on GazaClick on Latuff’s cartoon below to read a statement by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network…
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