Middle East
Middle East: Jail break from Gaza
Masses revolt against starvation conditions
Middle East
Iran
Iran: Release detained students
The number reported being held has now increased to 43.
Iran
Iran: Students arrested on university demonstrations
Repression against workers, students and women activists increases
Israel / Palestine
Israel: The teachers’ Rebellion 2007
An historical awakening
Egypt
Egypt: Workers flex their industrial muscle
Victory boosts workers’ confidence to defend living standards
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Café waiters’ strike victory
Thirty-six employees of the Coffee To Go Café in Ramat Aviv have won a strike for union recognition and against the violation of their labour rights. It was the first ever strike in an Israeli […]
Turkey
Turkey: Invasion threat increases regional instability
Bloody fighting between Turkish troops and PKK Kurdish separatist guerrillas on the Turkey/Iraq border has enormously ratcheted-up tensions between the two countries.
Lebanon
Lebanon: MP assassinated days before elections
Government and opposition struggle intensifies
Iraq
Iraq: Get the troops out now
"Generals lie, Soldiers die"
Turkey
Turkey: Sweeping election victory for pro-Islamist AKP party
But divided elites, social tensions and Kurdish question herald new crises