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Two weeks after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Arab leaders that their region’s “foundations are sinking into the sand”, the growing revolutionary upsurge of the masses has revealed that the pillars of Washington’s own policy in the Middle East are rotten and crumbling: here.
Egyptian government deploys police, shuts down Internet, ahead of mass demonstrations: here.
Jeffrey Fleishman, The Los Angeles Times: “Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who formerly headed the U.N. nuclear regulatory agency, returned to Egypt on Thursday in a move certain to increase political pressure on President Hosni Mubarak during a wave of protests that have gripped the nation”: here.
Cable: “Egypt’s abuse of Emergency Laws”: here.
Cable: “Mubarak’s terror against writers, bloggers and journalists”: here.
At least 16,000 and, according to some reports, many more protested in Yemen calling on Ali Abdullah Saleh, president for more than 30 years, to step down: here.
Tunisia: Ben Ali Allies Sacked in Cabinet Reshuffle: here.
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Kuwait: Egyptian farm labourers protest meagre pay
Around 120 Egyptian farming workers, working for a company in Sabhan, gathered outside the ministries complex to protest that their less than KD 60 wages had not increased in over four years, according to the Kuwait Times, January 19.
Many of the workers said that they had repeatedly complained to the company owners and that each time they were threatened with termination of contract and deportation if they went on with their demands, or if any of them filed complaints with the Ministry of Social Affairs.
One of the farm hands said that they were told that according to the labour law they were not entitled to a pay rise and that they had to settle the problems with the director of the firm. Another said that the company had been transferring workers’ visas to other sponsors without telling them.
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/wkrs-j28.shtml
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