Middle East & North Africa

Major conflicts within the regime

Against sectarianism and capitalism – for a workers alternative!

Herculean efforts to remove Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya

Another mighty demonstration demands real regime change

Imperialism wants to keep control over oil resources

Founders of new activists’ party detained

“We have no jobs, electricity – nothing”

Regular protests planned for Tuesdays

Police kill demonstrators – workers block oil port

Masses reject foreign intervention as towns fall to opposition

General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan

To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism

Brutal attacks and repression fail to stop demonstrations

The Egyptian February – class conflict sharpens

Hawamdiya Sugar Factory Protest

Week of escalating worker’s actions

Authoritarian regimes in Middle East fear for their rotten rule

Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system

In Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution

Army cannot guarantee democracy

No trust in the military chiefs! For a government of the representatives of workers, small farmers and the poor!

Militants struggling to build fighting, independent unions

Decisive action needed to block reaction and complete revolution

Jonas Brännberg Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) spoke to an exiled activist from Yemen about the situation.

Industrial action over pay, conditions and government-appointed union ‘leaders’

Vital to build a mass party to realise aims of workers and small farmers

‘Week of Determination’ protests called

This eyewitness account from a CWI reporter was despatched just before the big increase in the numbers of militant protesters swelling Tahrir Square, following Friday prayers.

The mass movement must go on the offensive!

Eyewitness report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square[see: articles in Arabic | this article in Arabic]

Demonstrators demand Mubarak and his regime must go

Demonstrations continue despite the announcement of increased wages, subsidies and political reforms

The conflict is between two sides of the same coin!

Hundreds of thousands remain on streets defying repression – For an indefinite general strike!

Regime deploys army on streets to try to crush mass movement

“Tunisia is the solution”

For the building of a mass workers alternative against sectarianism, war and poverty

A united struggle of Arab and Jewish workers against ‘contract labour’ and for decent wages.

The first phase of the revolution ousted Ben Ali! It must continue!

Stop the repression, for international solidarity!

Protests and creation of independent unions show potential for workers’ unity

Message of solidarity from Joe Higgins MEP to Tunisian trade unionists, socialists and democracy activists

The crisis of capitalism and the naked role of imperialism are graphically manifested in the Middle East.

Farcical election will fuel workers’ protests

CWI leaflet: Workers need to organise independently!

More protests needed!

Kürdistan’a kendi kaderini tayin hakkı!

Spring wave of strikes and protests