Yearly Archives: 2016

The last few weeks have not been kind to workers in Pakistan. Following the fire at the shipbreaking yard a month ago, injured workers and families of those who died have not yet received any compensation. The 1,500 workers employed at the PepsiCo plant in Lahore are still fighting for […]

The suffering and casualty toll to working class communities has only increased in the last few months with the latest military offensives in Aleppo, Syria and Mosul, Iraq. Both of the wars in Syria and Iraq have seen the involvement of multiple reactionary and imperialist forces. The last few months […]

The period under the dictatorial rule of President Marcos between 1972 until 1981 is characterised by the routine beatings, arrests and murders of labour and human rights activists. President Marcos was expelled via a popular uprising in 1981 and died in the USA a few years later. The current Filipino […]

AAWL is concluding this year’s series of film fundraisers by turning its focus to Africa with the screening of ‘The First Grader’. The film takes a personal story to focus on the failed Mau Mau national liberation movement and the struggle by former activists to be recognised in an independent […]

At least 40 workers were killed on Thursday 24 November, when a construction platform at a power station in the Yichun, Jiangxi province, collapsed. Many other workers were injured. The cause for such a catastrophic collapse is not yet known, but this is just the latest of a series of […]

Earlier this month, a fire at an illegally run garment factory in a residential area of Sahibabad, New Delhi, killed 13 workers. The fire occurred early in the morning and killed the workers as they were asleep in the factory building itself. In India’s rapid industrialisation over the last two […]

The the powerful South Korean workers movement will be holding a nationwide general strike on Wednesday 30 November. While the primary objective is to force the resignation of the President, Park Geun-hye, workers are also fighting for their rights and their wages and conditions. The South Korean workers’ movement has […]

Following on from last week’s big protests in Malaysia, and in many other cities around the world, the Malaysian government has stepped up repression against the anti-corruption movement. Maria Chin Abdullah, one of the leaders of Bersih, had been arrested prior to the demonstration with a number of others. Maria […]

The rise of the racist One Nation Party in Australia in the recent Federal elections has emboldened the far right. Islamophobia is one of the major planks for these movements. In Melbourne, a right wing Zionist group has invited representatives of One Nation to hold a meeting this Sunday to […]

There was a major anti Muslim rally in Colombo this week, by the radical Buddhist organisation Bodu Bala Sena (BBS). The BBS has a history of fomenting xenophobia and racist attacks against religious and ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka. The growth of this religious right wing extremism is also paralleled […]