The regions of Gurgaon and Manesar, near the Indian capital of New Dehli, are huge industrial areas that employ millions of people. The workers at the car plant of Maruti Suzuki staged a number of heroic actions before they were brutally repressed by the government (see 2011, 2013, 2014 and […]
Daily Archives: February 23, 2016
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As reported last week, some of the workers that had been arrested at the Khatoon Abad Copper Mines earlier this month had been released. This week, all the other workers have also been released. While free, it is probable that they will be charged in the near future, therefore solidarity […]
The uprising in Syria, as part of the regional Arab Spring, consisted of nationwide demonstrations against increasing levels of inequality, corruption and repression, by working class movements. The brutal response of the Syrian government, and the subsequent involvement of a range of reactionary and imperialist actors, has led to the […]
Over the last few months, Australian unions have fought against the giant energy and manufacturing company Alcoa as it tried to undercut wages and conditions by importing workers paid at a much lesser rate. The Maritime Union of Australia is fully aware of this ‘Race to the Bottom’ and the […]
While for many years, Chinese workers have been unable to organise independently, the reality is that in the last few years we have seen the growth of more confident and combative groups of workers. In the first few weeks of this year, nursing staff all over China have continued to […]
As reported previously, Australia has been witnessing the growth of new racist and fascist organisations. The continuing economic situation, the never ending War on Terror, and the vilification by politicians and the mass media of refugees and Muslims have provided a fertile ground for these parties to develop. One of […]
The outcomes of the occupation by Israel of Palestinian lands have been documented before, whether in the repression that it unleashes, or the continual resistance to it that it breeds. A Palestinian journalist, Muhammad al-Qiq, is currently close to death due to a hunger strike in protest against the continuing […]
The city state of Singapore is a tightly controlled country where labour is heavily regulated and workers have little scope to organise independently. Labour and social protests are often quickly repressed by the government (see here and here). A rare sit down protest by migrant workers in the construction industry […]