Following on from last week’s story on a boat carrying asylum seekers turned back to Indonesia, new reports allege that the Australian government bribed the people in charge of the boat. It is alleged that custom officials paid AUS $5,000 to six people so that they would turn back. Deportations of refugees to the […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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The collapse of the Rana Plaza building over two years ago marks a low point for workers everywhere in the world. This mass killing of workers has spurred many international actions in support of garment workers in Bangladesh and elsewhere. The Rana Plaza Compensation Fund was established to collect money […]
The military regime in Thailand has now entered its second year and it is showing no signs of giving up power. In an announcement earlier this month, the Labour Ministry said that it will abandon the country’s minimum wage next year. The ministry stated that the current wage of 300 […]
In the aftermath of the devastation of the Second World War, there has been a very strong anti war movement in Japan. Since the election of the current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, there has been a marked increase in military spending by the Japanese government. This has led to an […]
3CR is an activist radio station. For 39 years, 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne, Australia has brought you union, worker, indigenous, women’s, ethnic, environmental, music and other community programs that are not heard elsewhere. Every week AAWL presents its Asia Pacific Currents program on 3CR Radio. 3CR’s programs are podcast […]
Hundreds of workers employed by the global technology company Philips have gone on strike on Batam Island in Indonesia over the company’s union busting tactics. Workers had registered a new union earlier this year. In response, the company pressured every individual worker not to join the union and dismissed 83 […]
In encouraging news, the owner of the Rana Plaza building has been charged for the murder of over 1,100 workers. This new development has only come about because of the constant pressure and campaigning by workers and activists both in Bangladesh and internationally (see here, here and here). Given the […]
As reported previously, workers in China are becoming more willing to take industrial action to defend their interests. Recently released labour statistics show that in the last 5 years there has been an ever increasing number of strikes in China. In addition, the experiences of going on strike are spurring […]
As reported last week, in Australia there is concerted effort by far right and fascist forces to organise and become a serious political movement. A week ago, hundreds of labour and anti-fascist demonstrators organised a counter demonstration to stop the United Patriots Front from taking over the streets of an […]
The Australian government is continuing with its repressive policies against would-be asylum seekers and refugees, both in Australia and regionally. This week a boat that was turned back from Australia almost sank on the way back to Indonesia. The government now wants to make it illegal for health and welfare […]