Yearly Archives: 2015

The Australian government’s repressive measures against asylum seekers continue to increase with news that earlier this month, an Australian Navy ship intercepted and kidnapped a group of Vietnamese asylum seekers. The refugees were then held inside the navy ship until they were let out in the Vietnamese port city of […]

Mumia Abu Jamal is one of the most famous political prisoners in jail in the USA. Mumia has been in jail, most of it in ‘Death Row’, for over 30 years. He is known as the voice of the voiceless. Mumia has just turned 59 and needs urgent medical care. […]

Last Friday, the 24 of April was the second anniversary of the massacre of workers at the Rana Plaza in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Commemorations were held all around the world, including Australia. The effort to bring justice and adequate compensation to the victims and survivors continues in the face of resistance […]

Each and every day of the year workplace accidents kill more than 1,000 workers.  And diseases related to working conditions add more than 5,330 to this death toll every day. In Victoria alone, 19 workers have been killed in just 12 months.  Workers Memorial Day is our day to Remember the Dead, […]

May Day has been celebrated internationally since 1886 as the day for workers to unite as a class. Workers need to stop the policies of austerity and war. Capitalists are killing us, in our workplaces and in our communities. March in solidarity with workers in struggle everywhere. In Australia, this […]

Faisalabad is Pakistan’s third largest city and is that country’s largest textile centre with hundreds of thousands of workers employed in the industry. In 2010, a series of demonstrations and strikes by the power loom workers in Faisalabad brought the sector to a standstill as workers fought for better wages […]

This week the Aboriginal and progressive communities in Australia lost one of their leaders when Ray Jackson died on the 23rd of April. Ray was a Wiradjuri warrior and a member of the Stolen Generations after he was taken from his mother by the Australian government when his father was […]

The 53 year old human rights and labour activist Somyot Pruksakasemsuk will this week mark 4 years in jail.  Somyot was convicted under Thailand’s draconian Lese Majeste law. Last year Somyot wrote a letter detailing his continuing determination to fight. His case has been taken up by a range of […]

As reported last week, the Korean labour movement launched a series of strikes, action and demonstrations against the current exploitative practices that companies are using against workers and new proposed labour laws that the government wants to introduce. The strikes and demonstrations have been massive, occurring throughout South Korea with […]

In what is seen as a landmark case in Taiwan, a court has ordered the US company, RCA Corporations, to pay US $18 million in damages for the death of over 200 workers. The factory was an electronics plant that used large amounts of volatile organic compounds in its processing. […]