{"id":1015,"date":"2010-03-29T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2010-03-29T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:04:21","slug":"cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1016\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cimg0032.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1016\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1016\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"cimg0032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cimg0032-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"CTUWS founder Kamal Abbas addressing the meeting.\" width=\"164\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cimg0032-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cimg0032.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTUWS founder Kamal Abbas addressing the meeting.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just returned from a three-day visit to Cairo as the guest of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services, an NGO which for 20 years has fought to create independent and democratic trade unions in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing up a full report for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\">my blog<\/a>, but from a strictly LabourStart point of view this was a very important trip. Followup will include:<\/p>\n<p>Recruiting new correspondents in Egypt<br \/>\nCreating a special Egypt news page with links<br \/>\nReinvigorating our Arabic language page<br \/>\nArranging for Egyptian trade unionists to attend our conference in July<br \/>\nDoing joint campaigns with the CTUWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a three-day visit to Cairo as the guest of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services, an NGO which for 20 years has fought to create independent and democratic trade unions in Egypt. I&#8217;ll be writing up a full report for my blog, but from a strictly LabourStart point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}