Some photos posted by Tadamon, of the 10-day textile strike at the state-owned El-Amreya in Alexandria.
Tag: protests
Mahalla testimony
A labor organizer recalling Mahalla’s 17 February anti-Mubarak demonstration, which is the biggest labor march ever to be organized since the dictator rose to power in 1981:
As workers assembled in the compound near the gate, Central Security Forces showed up, in full gear. They parked two of their trucks in front of the factory gate so as to block the exit and make it impossible for the workers to leave the premise. The workers pulled and pushed the two trucks with their hands. Yes, just like that, with their hands and moved them hundreds of meters away from the gate… and stormed out into the town.
‘Hands off the Fedayeen!’
When the 1970 Black September massacres in Jordan started, my father was then in London attending a student conference for Arab scholars in Europe, which aimed at reaching some form of coordination between the various Arab nationalist and communist factions operating in the European universities. The attendees of the conference mobilized, during their brief stay in London and with the help of the British radical left, demonstrations against King Hussein, the Traitor of Jordan, in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. I’m posting scanned copies of two leaflets I found in my father’s archives from that time.
