Revolutionary Socialist and lawyer Mahienour el-Massry had her two-year sentence for defying the anti protest law reduced after an appeal last Sunday. She was charged after demonstrating outside the court hearing of the police officers charged with murdering political blogger Khaled Said in 2010.
Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan, two British citizens extradited to the US on terrorism charges, have been sentenced.
Over 500 of us in 11 coaches set off in a “People’s Convoy” from Cairo early last Saturday morning to take medical supplies into Gaza and show solidarity.
People in France were outraged by the bombings on Gaza. But the French state tried to deny them the right to express their view and their anger.
Protesters have marched in solidarity with the Palestinians in Aleppo and elsewhere, even as people suffer their own bombardment and shelling from Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The response in Israel to the attacks on Gaza has exposed a society consumed by the violence implicit in the Zionist enterprise.
Union mocks the bosses in South Africa | US intervenes after Afghan election | New threat despite stalemate in Ukraine
A court battle between migrant farm workers and the bosses who shot at them has inspired a strike against racist raids and restrictions on the other side of the country
Public sector workers were set to strike in Greece on Wednesday of this week. They plan rallies across the country and a protest at the ministry of finance in Athens.
The Egyptian government removed fuel subsidies and put tax up on cigarettes, wine and beer last weekend.
Metal workers' strike shakes South Africa | Maliki hangs on but Iraq may split | Massive march in Hong Kong | Former French president Sarkozy arrested
For the region’s Kurdish minority, both sides of the current upheaval stand in the way of liberation, writes Ron Margulies
