Monthly Archives: September 2011

 AAWL will be presenting the workshop on coordinating international industrial action & solidarity at the Climate Change – Social Change Conference Friday 30 September at Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne University Saturday 1 October & Sunday 2 October at Trades Hall, Carlton Governments everywhere impose vicious austerity policies to pay […]

Rally Saturday 8 October 2011 12 noon Parliament House Spring Street Melbourne Abortion was decriminalised in Victoria in 2008. On October 8 anti-abortionists will hold a "march for the babies" – a reactionary attempt to dictate to women what they can and can not do with their bodies. The Campaign […]

Somyot Pruksakasemsuk will go to a pre-trial hearing on 12 September.  The campaign for the release of all Thai political prisoners is again appealing for all workers and unions to send an appeal letter to the Prime minister and new government of Thailand to call for release of Somyot. It […]

The Syrian popular resistance is continuing amid unrelenting repression and many killings by government forces. In a positive development, Syrian soldiers are defecting in ever greater numbers. They have formed the Movement of Free Officers. These defections now allow the popular movement to defend itself from government soldiers and militias. […]

The management of the biggest car company in India, Maruti Suzuki India Limited has forced a lock-out at the Manesar, Gurgaon plant. It has also imposed a dictatorial and utterly illegal “good conduct bond” on the workers and has decreed that any worker who will not sign the bond will […]

Below we publish extracts of a letter written from prison by Somyot Pruksakasemsuk. The full text can be read here. And APC will broadcast an interview this Saturday (9:00, 03.09.2011 Melbourne, live internet broadcast 23:00, 02.09.2011 UTC, podcast here) with Ji Ungpakorn, exiled political/labour activist, on the current political situation […]

On Wednesday the 24th of August FKUI Chairman at La Farge Cement Indonesia (PT.SAI-La Farge) in Aceh, Teuku Nantasyah, was arrested by police. Nanta has been engaged in the struggle for workers’ rights against the management and contractors at La Farge for a number of months and this most recent […]

AAWL recently received the following report from the Vietnam Association for the Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA): On August 8-9, 2011, the 2nd International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin was held in Hanoi to create an opportunity for victims of this chemical to meet and share their experiences in […]

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has been called on to protect at least two seafarers who have allegedly been bashed onboard the BP Chartered "Britto" for refusing to sign a sub-standard industrial agreement from the ship’s Korean owners. It was further reported that other crew were threaten to be […]

Political prisoners in Colombia now number over 7,500, including 700 captured guerrilla insurgents. Colombia has the worst rate of killings of unionists, and one of the worst human rights records in the world. The Colombian government rules through a combination of terror and extreme exploitation to help corporations maximise profits. […]