Egypt

The constitutional articles relating to the term of the President of the Republic in the Arab States are the most vulnerable to changes likewise most of totalitarian regimes. Changing these articles according to the needs of the ruler is frequent since the executive power controls both state institutions (parliament and the judiciary) and the media, […]

On February 20, 2019, the Egyptian authorities executed nine youngsters on charges of murder of former Attorney-General Hisham Barakat, who was killed on June 29, 2015. This is the second time collective executions are carried out on this case alone. Other 15 young people were executed on December 6, 2018.

URGENT: TRIAL HEARING POSTPONED UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER RUSH MESSAGES OF PROTEST TO THE EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES NOW Solidarity with Alexandria Shipyard Workers – No to Military Trials for Workers Dear brothers and sisters, We are writing to ask for your support for a campaign in solidarity with 26 workers at the Alexandria Shipyard Company in Alexandria […]

After refusing shaking hands with his Israeli opponent Or Sasson, once finished the competition, the Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby was excluded from the Egyptian delegation by the local Olympic Committee, last August 15. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and conventional media condemned the attitude of El Shehaby as “contrary to the ‘Olympic spirit’”. Nothing […]

There are students and shipyard workers, who protested against attacks on their pay and bad work conditions, that were forcibly “disappeared”, tortured into false confessions and have been faced trial and conviction by Egypt’s military courts.

   Lately, Egypt has been going through a wave of strikes and protests, featured by the industrial working class. This could be indicating a new rise of struggles against military dictatorship, which governs the country since 2013, when it carried through the coup organized by the current president Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, to defeat the back […]

Egypt is currently experiencing a serious escalation of repression. The interim government of Adly Mahmoud Mansour, backed by the military, passed an anti-terrorism Act in April 2014. 

In the recent presidential elections, Marshal al-Sisi got 96.9% of the votes, according to the official questionable figures. It would have actually been a huge victory if it were not come accompanied by an abstention of the majority population.

The Egyptian revolution route, especially after Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood’s fall and the seizing of a new military government, in July 2013, is a controversial topic among the international left.

An Egyptian court in the central city of Minya sentenced to death 529 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), accused of “acts of violence”, related to the death of a policeman and other violence that took place across the country since July.

The IWL-FI supports the petition below to demand democratic rights for the Egyptian people. Access the campaign’s website to sign too.

The 19th of November 2011 has been consolidated as a memorable date for the Egyptian revolution. 

Workers in Egypt’s largest public textile factory strike again over delay in bonus payment.

The main leader of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, Kamal Abu Eita, took over as Minister of Labor of the new Egyptian government. Fatma Ramadan, a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation, objected to his taking over this position and issued this statement.

We will publish as of today, news and analysis direct from Egypt, where is the correspondent for IWL-FI and PSTU, Aldo Sauda. Cairo is again wrapped in its national flag. They are in the windows, the buildings facades and over the tents on Tahrir Square. They occupy all the spaces. It is highlighted the long and […]

The second anniversary of the beginning of the revolution found tens of thousands of demonstrators out in the streets of the main cities of Egypt. In Suez, Alexandria, Mahalla, Port Said and essentially, on the emblematic Tahrir Square, Egyptian toiling masses staged rallies, marches and hard confrontations against the police and the army. They demand […]