Yearly Archives: 2012

The struggle to form their own union and win better wages and conditions has been going on for almost two years at the Maruti Suzuki factory, situated in the large industrial belt of Gurgaon just outside of New Dehli. At a forum held this week by the Maruti Suzuki workers […]

Somyot Pruksakasemsuk has been in jail since April 2011, charged under Thailand’s repressive ‘Lese Majeste’ laws. Somyot has been a long time labour and human rights campaigner. He is supported by AAWL’s free our comrades campaign, because he was targeted for his political views. Somyot is to face court once again […]

Esther Gonzaga is the second PALEAn to be arrested out of the 39 warrants that were issued by a Philippines court in August. PALEA along with the international community condemns this strategy of intimidation and harassment and the workers remain resolute in their fight to win.  Maintaining the protest camp […]

This week has again shown the vulnerable position that Palestinians in Gaza live in facing the heavily militarised and nuclear armed state of Israel. The latest wave of bombardment has to be seen in relation to the changes that have occurred in that region in the last year and the […]

Just a few months after the mass murder of workers in Karachi, Pakistan, another fire has claimed the lives of garment workers. On Saturday the 24th of November, a fire engulfed the factory of Tazreen Fashions, just outside of the capital Dhaka. As with many similar garment factories, Occupational Health […]

The theme for NAIDOC Week 2012 is 'Spirit of the Tent Embassy: 40 years on. They dared to challenge.' NAIDOC means: National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. This year's theme celebrates the champions who lived to renew the spirit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the establishment […]

Earlier this week, at a major construction site in central Melbourne, southern Australia, workers had to defend their picket line against hundreds of riot police. The dispute centres on Grocon’s attempt to weaken the CFMEU’s ability to organise and represent workers. Grocon is one of Australia’s biggest construction companies. The […]

As previously reported, the uprising in Syria has seen a number of reactionary and imperialist forces intervening in this conflict. Nevertheless, workers and other progressive forces have also been organising. With the conflict intensifying, it is important that we support our class brothers and sisters both politically and materially. This […]

International Days of Action around specific disputes or industries, are increasingly being used as methods to grow international solidarity among workers by co-ordinating actions and events internationally. As reported previously, workers at DHL in Turkey have been fighting for the right to organise for many months, with 20 of their […]

Jalila Al-Salman, the acting President of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association (BTA), was released from jail in late November. Jalila was arrested at the same time as the then President of the BTA, Mahdi Abu Dheeb, during the Bahrain’s government ongoing crackdown on dissent. Unfortunately, Mahdi is still in jail, and […]