A dozen leading UK trade unionists released a statement today condemning the latest attacks on workers’ rights in Egypt. Members of the national executive committees of the university workers’ union UCU, civil servants’ union PCS and the National Union of Teachers were joined by Bakers and Food workers’ union president Ian Hodson in a protest…
Dozens of worker activists were reported to have been arrested after Egyptian security forces stormed the IFFCO oils and soap factory in Suez on 3 January to break up a strike over cuts to bonuses. The violent attack on the IFFCO workers is only the latest in a spate of arrests aimed at breaking workers’…
As the Egyptian military regime’s attack on workplace organisers deepens, detained workers in two important cases face court this week. Shipyard workers from Alexandria who have been detained since 24 May after military police stormed the yard and arrested them are due to find out the verdict in their military trial on 18 October. The…
Egypt Solidarity 