Yearly Archives: 2016

Life under Israeli occupation is extremely hard for Palestinian workers and their families. While ending the Occupation is of utmost importance, workers also struggle to improve their lives through better wages and conditions. This week saw a major demonstration by Palestinian teachers in Ramallah against the Palestinian Authority in their […]

Last year saw massive mobilisations by Iranian teachers in support of job security, better conditions and pay. These actions by teachers occurred all across Iran. The reaction by the Iranian government has been swift and repressive as usual. The government harassed and arrested a number of the teachers’ organisers (see […]

As previously reported, class struggle in South Korea intensified late last year with massive protests by workers and increasing repression by the government. In the middle of this month, the Korean Teachers Union was deregistered as part of the government ongoing offensive against unions. An unusual ‘ghost’ protest was held […]

The current BJP government in India has initiated a set of ongoing changes to weaken workers’ rights in India. This has led to massive protest by workers all over India. The government is also waging a nationalist and xenophobic offensive against its enemies and minorities. Its youth wing, the ABVP […]

As previously reported, the prospect of returning hundreds of sick refugees to the prisons camps in Nauru, sparked widespread protests in Australia. While the Australian government temporarily backed down, their commitment to a policy of repression remains. This week, an Iranian journalist held in the Manus Island, PNG, prison camp […]

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 […]

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 […]