Israel / Palestine
Israel: The ‘red revolution’ for free education
Tens of thousands of student clash with police to protest at government attempts to raise tuition fees
Middle East
Lebanon
Lebanon: May day 2007 – Workers’ Unity – Only Way to end War & Poverty!
The following CWI leaflet was distributed in Arabic in Beirut on Mayday
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Sharp increase in Israeli workers’ struggles
But trade union leadership collude with the bosses to stab workers in the back
Iran
Iran: Will Bush bomb Iran?
Alarm bells have been ringing, left and right. John Pilger, the radical journalist, wrote an article, Iran: The War Begins (New Statesman, 3 February), warning that a US air attack on Iran was imminent.
Syria
women: Kurdish women in Syria have a hard fight
Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.
Egypt
Egypt: Strike wave shakes regime
Ruling elite fear social explosions
Iraq
Iraq: ‘Surge’ doomed to failure
Only workers’ unity and a struggle for socialism offers a way out
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Contract postal workers storm Histadruth union HQ
Protest carried on national TV
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Contract postal workers demand permanent job status
Histadrut union federation takes membership dues but ignore struggle
Lebanon
Lebanon: Bus bombings heighten tensions before pro-government rally
Working people demand: “Let us live!”