Egypt
Egypt: Workers flex their industrial muscle
Victory boosts workers’ confidence to defend living standards
Middle East
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
Iraq
Iraq: ‘Strategic failure’ in Iraq and Afghanistan
Withdraw the troops now
Iran
Iran: Riots over petrol rationing and price hikes
Growing opposition against Ahmadinejad’s regime
Israel / Palestine
Palestine: Infighting blows apart ‘national unity’ government
Gaza’s population faces further isolation
Lebanon
Lebanon: US military “aid” sent to Lebanon army
Conflict in refugee camp threatens to spread