Al Ahram Online reports: Iraqi security forces used water cannon and batons to disperse protesters in the southern oil hub of Basra on Friday as thousands of Iraqis rallied around the nation against corrupt officials and poor basic services.
Friday, March 4
Video clips from first conference of Egypt's new independent union movement
Egypt's new independent union federation, declared on 30 January in Tahrir Square, held its first conference on 2 March.
Tuesday, March 1
Omani protesters call for wealth redistribution
As of 1 March, street demonstrations in the oil-rich Gulf state of Oman are in their fourth day.
Monday, February 28
New leftist parties formed in Egypt
The Daily News Egypt reports that on 25 February: "labor leaders from independent labor syndicates and workers' groups agreed on starting legal procedures for establishing the "Labor Democratic Party" and approved its primary founding statement.
Al-Nasr Coke Company workers demand bosses are sacked
Workers from Al-Nasr Company for Coke and Chemicals in Helwan, Egypt, started a strike on 28 February to call for the dismissal of their board of directors, the punishment of officials who caused the company's decline, and economic concessions, reports Al Masry Al Youm.
Tunisia: Ghannouchi resigns
A Tunisian socialist, Fathi Chamkhi, comments (27 February) on the website of France's New Anti-Capitalist Party, on the resignation of Mohammed Ghannouchi, prime minister of Tunisia's transitional government. Excerpts translated below.
Protests across Iraq on 25 February
According to Al Jazeera English: An unprecedented lockdown of Iraq's capital failed to deter thousands of Iraqis from protesting, serving notice that the anti-government rage sweeping the Middle East will not be easily extinguished in Baghdad.
Libyan rebels rebuff fundamentalists
Juan Cole reports: "People in the liberated eastern cities often wore traditional Libyan dress on Friday, according to al-Sharq al-Awsat, as a way of refuting Qaddafi’s charges that the rebels were radical Muslim fundamentalists (who have their own style of dress, some of it influenced by Afghan fashion or Saudi plainness)" - www.juancole.com.
Friday, February 25
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