Sussex students join the wave of pro-Gaza university occupations in the UK.
Year: 2009
Cement workers to strike
The Tora Cement workers, led by trade unionist Muhammad Abdel Monsef, are lobbying their state-backed General Union officials into allowing the local union to strike in beginning of February.
Iceland protesters demand government step down
Europe’s intifada is spreading:
Icelandic police fired pepper spray and made arrests at a demonstration outside parliament on Tuesday where protesters demanded the government that oversaw the country’s economic collapse step down, local media said.
Several hundred demonstrators, some hammering on pots and pans, gathered around the Althing, amid calls for the Icelandic government to step down, a Reuters witness reported.