Monday, January 02, 2006

Ilyas Al-Habr is dead. He was a Lebanese communist union organizer and leader. He belonged to an era when workers' union in Lebanon tried to represent real Labor interests. That was before the Syrian government, the Amal Movement, the Ba`th Party, Rafiq Hariri, and SSNP destroyed the Labor Unions of Lebanon in the early 1990s. The current head of the labor unions in Lebanon, Ghassan Ghusn, is a mere tool of Nabhi Birri. Free the labor unions of Lebanon.