Yearly Archives: 2016

It has been over three years since the fire at the Ali Enterprises garment factory fire in Baldia town, Karachi that killed over 250 of its workers. The fire was a direct result of the owners’ total disregard for the health and safety of its workers. This week, rallies were […]

In June 2007, the federal government staged a massive intervention in the Northern Territory with the lie of protecting Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. On every single possible measure, such as violence against women, alcohol and drug use, incarceration rates, suicides and levels of education, the Northern Territory Intervention has […]

The meat processor Talleys/AFFCO group of companies in New Zealand have an appalling health and safety record with workers continually suffering injuries at work. In addition, the companies actively minimise and hide many of these incidents. Labour activists and unions throughout the Asia/Pacific have taken action to show solidarity and […]

Two imprisoned labour activists in Iran, Jafar Azimzadeh and Esmail Abdi, have announced that they will start a hunger strike at the end of April to coincide with May Day as an expression of solidarity with workers worldwide. Jafar and Esmail, both of whom have been arrested for labour activities, […]

This upcoming 30 April will mark the 5th anniversary of Somyot Priksakasemsuk’s imprisonment in Thailand under that country’s draconian Lese Majeste laws. Somyot is a journalist and a labour activist. Thai activists are calling for supporters around the world to send letters to Somyot as a show of solidarity with […]

Scores of Filipino workers employed at Seung Yeun Technology Industries Corp. (SYTIC), at the Cavite Export Processing Zone in Rosario, went on an indefinite strike this week. The company produces semi-conductors electronic products for major international companies. The workers are demanding the reinstatement of 20 workers fired for union activities, […]

Syrian people who survived years of brutal civil war, finally escaping into Turkey, who then crossed the sea to Greece in rubber dinghies, are now stuck in freezing unhealthy camps on the border between Greece and Macedonia. The EU has just resolved to begin deporting them back to Turkey. Macedonia […]

Five miners were killed and eight were injured in an explosion at a Sheraz Coal Company mine on 2 April, in the north western province of Khyber Paktunkhwa, Pakistan. In 2016 already 17 miners had been killed in mines in this region. Coal mines had been closed, but mine owners […]

The Cambodian Parliament has rammed through the draconian labour law, designed to limit workers’ rights to strike, and puts union registration and deregistration entirely at the whim of government.  Unions and other labour groups have been protesting the labour law, but it was voted up with a clear majority on […]

Against a brutal occupations, and in defiance fo the Israeli apartheid laws, Palestinians again marked Land Day, in many commemorations events that were sometimes repressed. Unfortunately the issue that began Land Day, land confiscation, has not decreased in importance, as the current Israeli government illegally confiscates land, farms and houses […]