UK: Teachers in solidarity with Jalila and Mahdi on Oct 20 protest
picture by Nadine el-Enany 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...
View ArticleEvent: Jalila al-Salman’s message to parliament meeting
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...
View ArticleTunisia: School teachers to strike against privatisation and low pay
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...
View ArticleUK: Union leaders back campaign for Haitham Mohamedain
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...
View ArticleTunisia: Solidarity from teachers’ unions for striking UK colleagues
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...
View ArticleBahrain: unions launch campaign against UK failure to act on abuses
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...
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