Israel / Palestine
Palestine: Raids by Israeli forces on Palestinian TV stations
"A conscious policy to undermine the freedom of the media"
Middle East
Iran
Iran: Free Reza Shahabi, jailed trade unionist
Tehran’s bus drivers’ union leader sentenced to 6 years in prison
Turkey
Turkey: Government attempts to intensify religious education
Regressive school reform causes uproar
Turkey
Turkey: Brutal reality behind the West’s much-praised AKP government model
Turkey’s governing ’Justice and Development Party’ (AKP) is presented as a model of “successful democracy” by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is a brutal model of repression against Kurdish and left […]
Egypt
Egypt: German University in Cairo reinstates two expelled students
International solidarity campaign forces university authorities to back-down
Egypt
Egypt: Union leader sentenced for “insulting” government minister
Protest against new attack on workers’ rights
Egypt
Egypt: German University in Cairo expels student activists
Campaign for a democratic students’ union goes on – Send protests now!
Iran
Iran: War clouds gather
Western powers step up sanctions and military threats against Tehran
Yemen
Yemen: Gulf States/imperialism impose one-candidate Presidential ‘election’
Months of grassroots revolt shows way forward for impoverished masses
Egypt
Video: “A Second Egyptian Revolution is needed”
MEP Paul Murphy raises the need for the Egyptian masses to take political and economic power out of the hands of the ruling elite and military