Yearly Archives: 2016

The Philippines is one of many countries that uses export processing zones to create highly profitable areas for companies to operate in where union organising is suppressed. Currently, there is an ongoing dispute with NT Philippines, a large electronics firm in the Cavite Export Processing Zone that is refusing to […]

While the Prime Minister of Australia went to Europe and the United Nations to boast how well the government was helping refugees, the real situation for thousands of refugees in Australia is very different. In the two Pacific Island concentration camps, refugees are still being subjected to Australia’s repression. In […]

In the week of the funeral of ex Israeli leader, Shimon Peres, hailed as a ‘man of peace’, the reality is that life for most Palestinians is still one of occupation and repression. A recent report has detailed that since September 2000, Israeli authorities have arrested over 100,000 Palestinians. Many […]

This year is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the huge US military communications base at Pine Gap in central Australia. This base is only one of many US military installations on Australian soil which integrate Australia’s military into the USA global military network. Anti-war activists from all around […]

Around 1,200 workers at the private Saad Specialist Hospital in the eastern city of Khobar have walked off the job in an indefinite strike over unpaid wages. Not only is strike action extremely rare in Saudi Arabia, a country that bans any trade union activity, but this action is extremely […]

Five dismissed Honda workers have been on a hunger strike for that last week in New Delhi to protest against their treatment and for the reinstatement of dismissed workers. They have now been joined by hundreds more workers who are staging demonstrations in support of these hunger strikers in the […]

Around 140 workers in the central Queensland coal mine at German Creek, near the town of Middlemount, have been on strike over a new collective agreement. The mine is owned by the giant Anglo American group which has now taken steps to try to employ strike breakers through a labour […]

The Turkish government is using the opportunity of the July 2016 failed military coup to target the still powerful Turkish working class. The figures speak for themselves. The number of teachers dismissed in this time has reached almost 30,000, with another 10,000 still under investigation. An additional 20,000 civil servants […]

Since the start of 2015, there has been a determined push by a number of far right groups in Australia to increase their influence by exploiting the current economic and political climate to their advantage. While Labour and human rights groups have organised counter mobilisations to oppose them, at the […]

The long running case against labour right activist Andy Hall concluded this week when a Thai court found him guilty of criminal defamation and violating the Computer Crime Act. Andy’s research focused on the mistreatment of workers, mostly migrant workers from Burma, employed at the Natural Fruit Company, in Prachuap […]