Middle East Workers' Solidarity
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Information about the labour movement in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere in the Middle East, and about what's being done in the British labour movement to raise solidarity.
Middle East
Massacres continue as Syrians fight for freedom
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By Dan Katz
Bil’in arrest highlights Israeli intimidation in Palestinian villages
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By Hamde abu Rahma and Rosie Huzzard
Yemen: Saleh staggers on
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Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh is resisting calls for him to step down, as the mass pro-democracy movement in the capital, Sanaa, continues to mobilise against him.
1968, 1989...2011? Is this a year of global revolt?
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“Perhaps”, wrote a columnist in the staid Financial Times on 30 August, “2011 will come to rank alongside 1968 and 1989 as a year of global revolt”.
Chaos grips Yemen
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Yemen — even given the best possible of governments — would not be a well functioning state.
Three dictators wobble, but don't yet fall
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On Saturday 4 June, one of the three remaining Arab despots confronting mass rebellions — Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen — seemed to concede defeat, fleeing to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment.
Middle East news in brief
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The Rafah crossing, the only entry point to Gaza not controlled by Israel, was opened by Egypt on 28 May.
Yemen: half way to hell
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The main political lines in the four-month-old mobilisations to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh are becoming blurred.
A view of Bahrain
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People in Bahrain are expecting the worst every moment.