Middle East

Updates on student struggle in Israel

Students swarm a street near Tel Aviv University

A week following the previously reported protest, another student protest took a more incendiary turn, blocking streets, burning tires and attempt to block the highway, the latter successful for a longer period of time, though faced with tougher repression.

Violence at Iranian mayday celebrations

Mayday protests in Tehran

Security forces attacked workers celebrating May Day in different cities across Iran.

Israel: teachers strike over pay and conditions

Teachers in Haifa and Tel Aviv have voted to take strike action after the collapse of negotiations over pay and conditions.

Darkness at midnight: Review of Midnight Oil - Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes

Kuwaiti oil fields burn

A review of an anthology of articles by the US autonomist Marxist-influenced Midnight Notes collective and the earlier Zerowork group.

Lebanon: electricity workers threaten strike

Staff at EDL (Lebanese Electricity) have given notice of strike action to begin on May 4.

Student protest in Israel breaks out of police and leaders' control

Footage of protestors filling Ibn Gvirol, a main street in Tel Aviv

Massive assembly evolves into street-blocking march, as students protest against tuition hikes.

Kafr el-Dawwar workers are in the same trench as Ghazl el-Mahalla

Striking Kafr el-Dawwar workers

A very significant statement of solidarity with the Ghazl el-Mahalla workers from the workers at Kaffr el-Dawwar, April 2007.

Egypt: Mahalla crackdown day two

Striking Mahalla textile workers

An update from an Egypt-based libcom poster on the state repression of the workers movements in Mahalla on the Nile Delta.

Egypt: New crackdown on Mahalla workers

A report posted from a libcom user in Egypt concerning repression following the recent wave of strikes there.

Gaza: public sector strike spreads

Palestinian workers

Since last week, 15,000 public sector workers across the Gaza Strip's five biggest towns have walked out in protest at unpaid wages.