Resources, links


Egypt: activists and organisations

  • Egypt Workers' Solidarity
  • Centre for Trade Union and Workers' Services
  • Hossam el-Hamalawy's blog
  • Downloadable book: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in Egypt, by Joel Beinin

    Iranian activists and organisations

  • Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi
  • Iranian Workers' Bulletin
  • Middle East Forum
  • Organisation for Women's Liberation
  • Seeking committee for the freedom of university students

    Other solidarity and information

  • Syria Comment
  • Labour Start Egypt
  • Labour Start Iran
  • International Support Committee for Independent Algerian Unions
  • Algeria Watch
  • PST (socialist group in Algeria)
  • Marxist from Lebanon

    Iraqi activists and organisations

  • General Federation of Iraqi Workers
  • Unemployed Union of Iraq and Federation of Workers' Councils and Unions of Iraq
  • Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq
  • Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions
  • Iraq Freedom Congress
  • Worker-communist Party of Iraq
  • Communist Party of Iraq

    Articles

  • "Is the US pulling the plug on Iraqi workers?", by US activist David Bacon (August 2010)
  • "Working conditions and labor rights in Iraq", by US activist David Bacon
  • "The Invisible Fire - Public Sector Worker Struggle and Trade Unionism in British-Occupied Basra", report by Ewa Jasiewicz, January 2004
  • "Trade unions in Iraq", by Owen Tudor of the TUC
  • Survey article on the Iraqi union movement by David Bacon, November 2005

    More Iraq links

  • Labour Start Iraq
  • Solidarité Irak (France)
  • Iraq Union Solidarity Scotland
  • AusIraq (Australia)
  • Iraq Labour Solidarity Fund (USLAW)
  • TUC Iraq appeal
  • IOF appeal for Southern Oil Company Union
  • No Sweat
  • Voices in the Wilderness
  • Jubilee Iraq
  • Future of Iraq Portal
  • Iraqanalysis.org

    Materials for solidarity with Iraqi unions

  • Introductory leaflet
  • Affiliation form
  • Letter to trade union branches (etc) inviting them to affiliate
  • Model motion for trade union branches
  • Briefing on the new trade unions in Iraq
  • Briefing on students' organizations in Iraq
  • Petition - support Iraqi workers

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